Taking Photos of People
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- mg33
One of the things that's always impressed me about other people's photos is great street photography of random people.
If this is something you do, how do you go about it? Do you ask people's permission to take a photo? Use a long enough zoom to not need to be right by them?
- lvl_130
hip shot. 200-300mm zoom. click. check. erase. repeat.
or just ask them :)
- ok_not_ok0
Just do it. Use a small not very intimidating camera with a 35mm or 50mm focal lenght lens. Long zooms looks like paparazzi shots.
- Mal0
Ask them and have a handy little release form handy in case you want to publish them.
- seeessess0
Use a long zoom:
or shoot from the hip:
- First one shot with a 200mm
Second was the 10-22seeessess - hah. dad and son, dress the same. :-)akrokdesign
- shooting from the hip is a great way to get good shots of nostrilsjaylarson
- Jay, I think you'll find there's more nostrils in the top (zoom) shot ;o)seeessess
- First one shot with a 200mm
- mg330
With my D90 I just got last week, I do have a 50mm f1.8 Nikon lense, and a 17-50mm Tamron.
Currently shopping for a longer zoom lens. I was taking pictures at the zoo yesterday and missed having a longer zoom (My point and shoot Lumix has a 35-350mm range).
- fourthgen0
Annie Libewitz in her book said something a long the lines of practice photographing your friends and learn how to get intimate with them before you try strangers.
- epic_rim0
or just ask people. A lot of people LIKE having their picture taken, for obvious reasons...
- akrokdesign0
it's not very nice to just pop a picture of someone with out asking. ethnical.
but if you take a picture of a crowd of people, it's a difference thing.
- unethical?lvl_13
- lolfourthgen
- hah. you got me.akrokdesign
- it's a difference thing?hallelujah
- people in public spaces are fair game legallyhallelujah
- yes, unethical.akrokdesign
- ethically, maybe different storyhallelujah
- yeah. you're not pointing out a single person on the crowd shot.akrokdesign
- hallelujah0
I use a long lens. I'm a pussy
- inkpink0
any examples of these "great street photos of random people"... ?
i'd bet half the time those shots aren't as random as they may appear.
- mg330
This is the thing that I'm regretting not doing enough of when I was in Tokyo, btw.
I did not have to ask this guy, who was passed out about 10 feet from a police station:
- that guy stole my teal pants!lvl_13
- or mint, rather!lvl_13
- Japan has the cleanest bums.ok_not_ok
- hah. "the traveling pants"akrokdesign
- a girl came up to him crying, so worried about him. Cops were feet away, didn't care.mg33
- they just let them sleep it off. if you did that anywhere in the US you'd be in jail.mg33
- epic_rim0
random shots of people from the master
- MHDC0
Bruce Gilden gets soooo close, most of his subjects think he took a picture of something behind or just beyond them.
Don't act surreptitiously, if you get "caught"... just smile. Usually works.
- ok_not_ok0
^ repost
- love the woman at about :37, she seems frigntenedmg33
- OMG - at 2:07 I think that's Andy Kaufman as Tony Klifton! http://www.city-data…mg33
- lvl_130
on a side note, i just got this badboy:
http://www.usa.canon.com/consume…
after my older s9000 took a shit.the thing prints wicked sharp photos.
here's looking at you Mal!
- quamb0
yeah i'm with the wide to normal lens crowd for street photography.
Can capture more, shoot from the hip, less blur/camera shake etc... plus you can pretend to be taking a photo 'just to the left' of the subject.
- epic_rim0
also, set your camera to f/8 or something high so your dof is wide. Or, if its getting a little darker, just set the shutter to 1/125, but not much lower and snap away.
