>>4326949
Gotta creepmaxx. Also semen retention.

>>4326949
The secret that "famous" street "photographers" know that their legions of gearfag cargo cult imitators do not, is that good street photos are not of random people in public

The photographer talked to their subject beforehand and arranged to stage the photo. Every time. All of them are staged.
>Hey, I'm an artist, I'm wondering if you'd like to help me take a cool picture

>>4326949
Realize you aren't being a pussy bitch, you simply don't wish to annoy people by violating their souls with your camera

Start with a big ass telephoto lens and get people from 1/4 mile away, then work your way down to a normal length prime

>>4326949
Small camera, 35mm lens, 400 speed film pushed to 1600, f16 aperture, zone focus, and just snapshit away. You just point the camera at whatever you want and it will be in focus. Do not fuss with the viewfinder.

Keep the camera in your pocket until you're ready to take the photo. Any and all photographs should be taken in 5 seconds or less.

>>4327001
>Creepshotting 101
Do note OP this technique was developed by pedos and if it ends up drawing attention will likely be painful due to the connotations the shooting style conveys

>>4326958
>>Hey, I'm an artist, I'm wondering if you'd like to hel...
>get knifed
>all your shit stolen
>end up blind or a cripple
>$800k hospital bill and life long disability
>police aren't even remotely interested in the case
>die living in absolute destitute
this is the way of "famous" street "photographers"

Buy the largest camera possible, and sling a light meter around your neck and tripod over your shoulder. People will think you're a professional just doing your job and won't question your presence.

>>4326949
The larger the camera, the less people care. Taking videos on your phone is creepy, but when I hauled out a massive 80' camcorder everyone just smiles and waves.

where's that one anon who photographs alcoholics with the biggest lens he has from 20 feet away

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just do it and be nice
taking a photo is interaction, like a greeting or a nod. so you can warm up and practice by doing those things to strangers you see

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>>4327032
>>4327036
This.
>SLR or compact camera
Oh god it's a pedo creep hide the kids/oi wankah didju just take a photo of my butifel 200kg girlfriend!!?!?
>Medium format camera
Let me disrupt you and tell you my life story t.boomer
Oh no this guy is shooting a video police please help t.Stacy McNormie
>Picrel
This guy is probably doing some pro work, better leave him alone t.Norm
Fuck what speed zone was this? t.every driver passing by

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Jam the camera in their face and snap. Comment "beautiful," and move onto your next target. Don't bother to acknowledge any reaction.

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>>4326949
>pussy
>bitch
>retarded
i dunno good luck

>>4327023
>that's why i only shoot rocks and leaves with pentax

Go buy a 70-200 and shoot with the lens hood on. People will see that fuckhueg lens and actually be interested in seeing what weird shit you are doing with it

>>4326949
take some poppers and lose all inhibitions, become a homosexual creep and get aids

>>4327023
no self respecting ER would save a street """""""photographer""""""""
just let them bleed out - that's standard operating procedure when crypto pedophiles come in

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>>4327023
Next time dont visit detroit

>>4327117
DLRS niggas just don't understand how the focus works on their camera do they?

>>4327137
>DSLR
>That photo was taken with a point and shit
bruh

>>4327117
motion blur is photographically worthless 99% of the time isnt it

Just don't be a pussy

>>4327137
Gonna go out on a limb and say that's not fucked focus, his shutter speed is like 1/100

If you take photos of random people in public, it's not a matter of if but when the cops get called and they lock you up for taking pictures of a kid. You'll end up raped in gen pop of a prison because most photophiles are chomos.

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>>4327063
someone sauce me up please

From Reddit
Be a photographer long enough and we all collect bad experiences. I was working at a store grand opening as their professional photographer. I always, identify myself and ask permission if I intend to photograph a person.

I asked a grown man if I could take his picture and he replied, no. I put my camera down and started to walk away. He follows me, grabs at me and my camera/lens from sort of the side and behind me and yells that I took his picture and he was taking my camera. I calmly offered to show him that I had not taken a picture of him. He grabs my camera lens and tries to break the camera. I started to do a finger peel (I had been a MMA fighter) get to his thumb as he is still fighting with me, and dislocated it and started to break it. He backed off at this point. He was then removed from the store by a few customers and the store owner banned him.

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>>4326949
But why. has taking random photos of strangers ever resulted in a good photo? no.

instead, you should take pictures of something more interesting, like random dogs in public. too bad people keep bringing their pitbulls so i can't do it that often

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>>4327220
Is that picture post or pre hump?

>>4327063
I have a collection of passed out drunk people. I can post if a few if you'd like.

>>4327223
Pre-hump

You can tell by the look of pure spite distracting you from the insufficient DOF

>>4327187
post from /r/thatHappened?

>>4327224
I would love to observe your collection

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>>4327679
Nice. I will post a few!

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>>4327679
That's all I could find for now! All taken in SF like 7 years ago.

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>>4327032
End of last month a gust of wind blew down part of a large Oak tree onto a car near where I live.
When I strolled over with to take some pictures with just a dslr everyone assumed I was with the local newspaper, lol.

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>>4327874
cool pics.

>>4327921
>hey, m8, you can't park there

>>4327187
>and then everybody clapped

>>4326949
just b urself

>>4327001
effective but imposes serious restriction on what your photo might look like

>>4327032
might work in some scenarios but not all

>>4327036
effective for video moreso than still photos

>>4327066
this is the true method but most people on here are too autistic to ever achieve this

>>4327074
this is also a valid method

>>4327092
not when they see it pointed at their face, at least where I'm from

>>4326949
This video changed my photography the day I watched it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcgEnC3bLY
It's a good demo of being bold af. I'm not saying you should be that bold, probably shouldn't, but it helps you understand that as a street photographer, *you're going to be violating other people*, making them feel uncomfortable, and doing something they'd rather you not do. Most people are going to just be ick'd out but ignore it and move on with their day as long as you're not doing anything obviously pervy or whatever. Most people are honestly just worried they look bad or look fat in the photo you took. You will get pissed off people and people demanding you delete your shot, or being confrontational, etc. That's just a fact of it.
When you see a demo like this, it helps give you the confidence to do it yourself.
But street photography demands this. If you're not capturing people's lives, people's emotions, etc. you're taking boring photography.

As for taking posed pictures or pictures with permission -- start by asking to take pictures of people's dogs. People are far more welcoming to that than of themselves and a surprisingly large number of people say yes. Then after a while, start asking to take pictures of the dog with the owner, say it's for a class project or whatever, and you'll get a lot more rejections. Once you get comfy with that, ask people directly.

I find it helps a lot if you take excessive gear. Just like you can put on a safety vest and a clipboard to social engineer your way into places, if you have reflectors, a flash with a portable soft box or umbrella, carrying two cameras with large lenses, etc. -- stuff that normies think make you look like a pro photographer -- people will more likely see you as a pro photographer actually taking legitimate photography, not some fucking creep who's going to go home to jerk off to their pictures. That's going to ruin your candid photography, though.

>>4332459
...I hate leica
SO much
for inventing this "genre"

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>>4332443
>this is the true method but most people on here are too autistic to ever achieve this
>t. knower

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usually one good place to start is along a bike or running path
practically no one gets mad and stops what they're doing and you might even get a fun reaction out of it
it also helps in general to make your camera as visible as possible
so far the only time i was outright asked to delete a photo was from someone at a columbia university protest

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Most psycho photographers have psychopath laughs psychopath eyes and psychopath cars and psychopathic diagnoses.

If you are near a photographer you should be careful because they are usually psychopaths

>>4334309
how about snapshitters
they cool and laid back?

>>4334313
Usually, unless they call themselves a photographer which is the in group psycho photographer signal

>>4327023

oh my sides ;D

>>4327023
This is why I don't do street photography anymore
Nogs have become even more emboldened since 2020 and will just steal shit and assault people in broad daylight, cops won't do anything. Not worth getting my shit stolen for pictures of people walking around or buildings.

>>4326958
Yep, it's the same with journalism, it's all fake too.

>>4327023
Why would you ask a black person for help, though?

>>4327023
this is why you rarely see black people in street photography

>>4335949
Too easy to underexposed em

>>4334560
>New to photography
>Cheap soviet rangefinder because it looked cute.
>Ilford HP5 400 because it sounded cool.
>Snapshitting my family in Stamford, CT while we walked to St. John's Basilica.
>Uncle starts a conversation with some random doordash cyclist in front of the package store.
>It's gonna be the perfect uncle photo
>There's dynamism from all the movement on the street
>Leading lines from the sidewalk
>Captures my uncle's personality
>Check my light meter
>Look through my rangefinder
>Crouch down
>Start focusing
>”Why you takin' pictures of me?!”
>Various hispanic barking
>Brown biomass is angry at me or something.
>Genuinely surprised to the point of confusion
>Confusedly point at my family
>Annoyedly tell him, “Not of you, of them.”
>I want to get my uncle photo so I go back to ignoring him
>Spic is in the way of my shot, still making noises.
>Girl with him tells him to quit it.
>They walk past me without any trouble.
>Go to take my photo finally
>Doordash cyclist is long gone
>Shot is ruined.
>Abandon the snapshitter code for the first time and don't just take it anyway. Pic related.

I'm voting for whoever deports these guys.

>>4327023
>police aren't even remotely interested in the case
Peace officers exist to maintain public order and nothing more.

>>4337055
Were they behind your uncle or what?

>>4337063
I was on the corner of Atlantic St. and Bell St., by the Basilica, Uncle was in front of the packies. I believe the hispanics emerged from either the smokeland or one of restaurants between us, but honestly they could have materialized from the air itself and I would not have noticed them until the male started making noise.

>>4337072
You should have taken a photo of the peppergut.

>>4337075
If it ever happens again, I'll post it here for you.

>>4327224
Why do you assume they are passed out drunk, instead of dead, drugged, or normal sleeping? Just curious,