How Not to Do Street Photography

He's going to get a smack in the teeth before long! Think even I'd elbow him if he did that to me.

And it is not as if the work he's producing is even all that anyway!
 
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Looked like that chinese guy at the end was going to lamp him.

Surely there are better ways to get a pic???

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He'll do it to the wrong guy sooner or later, or worse ,the wrong guys girlfriend.
 
If he did that, around the streets where I live, he be slapped!
 
It looks to me like he might have been "putting it on" a bit for the camera as a lot of the shots he was not even framing up, just jabbing the camera in someone's direction.

I prefer to shoot more discreetly and avoid annoying people - here is how it should be done (this guy is one of the UK's leading street photographers)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFY4kfqXl2Q
 
Perfectly fine (though showing off about your camera is a bit childish, especially if it's not anything worth showing off about) until he starts getting silly with the hiding behind the phone box and jumping out. If you're making the person recoil like that you've crossed a line and if he keeps using that particular move eventually someone's going to smack him one. I get the impression he was showing off for the video (which would fit the camera show off mindset) and was trying to be clever but ended up looking a pillock.

Having seen videos of Bruce Gilden working I'd have worked out what was going on with the earlier stuff and would have stopped to talk to him about photography if I wasn't particularly heading somewhere, but if he'd popped out from behind something like he did at the end I'd have probably shoved the camera away as a reflex.
 
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Stick that camera on my face like you do to the people in that video and you will get a reaction alright!
 
If someone jumped out in front of me and shoved something in my face I reckon it'd take a team of 10 high trained surgeons about a week to remove said item from the person ar5e!!!!
 
boliston said:
It looks to me like he might have been "putting it on" a bit for the camera as a lot of the shots he was not even framing up, just jabbing the camera in someone's direction.

I prefer to shoot more discreetly and avoid annoying people - here is how it should be done (this guy is one of the UK's leading street photographers)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFY4kfqXl2Q
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He shoots with a Hexar AF, I like the guy already. :lol:
 
How many hours would it take to remove that D90 from the upper reaches of his Sigmoid colon?
 
What an utter plonker :lol: it cannot lead to any decent photo's or many and is going to lead to a smack at some point I wonder if he jumped out on someone with a weak heart and they died would that be man slaughter :shrug:
 
Looks like just another wannabe from his site. He has a section of his portfolio titled 'photoshoots' which I found amusing for a start.

Saying he's more of a perfectionist than Gilden, if he's serious, then he's deluded. Homeless people asleep, hardly ground breaking 'street' photography.

Then there was the line where he said he wanted to intimidate people. :shrug:

Wonder if he'll have it pulled off PetaPixel when he finds it.

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guy is a **** just like Bruce Gilden - seems to pick people that would not get angry at him.
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Gilden spent years shooting the Yakuza...
 
if he shoved a camera in my face like that I don't think I would let it go. He is really getting right in to peoples personal space and making them recoil. I'm 99% sure once I had gotten over the shock I would be angry enough to take the time to go back to him and give him some of his own medicine. I'm thinking blackberry camera 1 inch in front of his face for about an hour or two.. or at least until he decided to go home.
 
Russ77 said:
If someone jumped out in front of me and shoved something in my face I reckon it'd take a team of 10 high trained surgeons about a week to remove said item from the person ar5e!!!!
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Exactly what I was thinking. That guy is a joke, he'd try that once in Belfast and camera up his ar3e would be least of his worries lol
 
when you like on his site at the portfolio, he only has 2 shots that are as close as what he is showing in his video. and both of the suck - reason is because its a stupid way of taking a photo, half the time i bet his minimum focus distance on that lens isn't small enough, he has no time to compose or focus, it's just random no skill - result - carp pics.
 
Dave Stone said:
If a guy came at me like that I'd knock him on his arse!
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Yep, I'd take a pint out of him too.
 
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Watched the video, followed some more links, went back to watch it again and the video "has been removed by the user" Bet he realised what a **** he was being!
 
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