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Hello all,
I'd love some feedback on this. I've always had a love/hate relationship with photos of people in street scenes. I love them when they are interesting and tell a story - I hate them when I feel self conscious "intruding" into a strangers life by taking a picture of them. I have generally avoided such shots. However, I do have one image of an older woman standing in a doorway of a cottage in NE Scotland with a cat crouched in the opening of the doorway. It was only after I got that one back that friends picked it out and remarked how much they liked it.
How do you handle these street scenes with people, where people become a focal point. It nearly becomes a portrait of them? Do you find they back-off what they were doing and look unnatural when they see you taking their photos? What do you say? Do you ask for a release form to be signed in case you want to use the image later?
I would really like to hear how others handle this.
Thanks very much,
Lynn
I'd love some feedback on this. I've always had a love/hate relationship with photos of people in street scenes. I love them when they are interesting and tell a story - I hate them when I feel self conscious "intruding" into a strangers life by taking a picture of them. I have generally avoided such shots. However, I do have one image of an older woman standing in a doorway of a cottage in NE Scotland with a cat crouched in the opening of the doorway. It was only after I got that one back that friends picked it out and remarked how much they liked it.
How do you handle these street scenes with people, where people become a focal point. It nearly becomes a portrait of them? Do you find they back-off what they were doing and look unnatural when they see you taking their photos? What do you say? Do you ask for a release form to be signed in case you want to use the image later?
I would really like to hear how others handle this.
Thanks very much,
Lynn