RE: Half-Assed Guide To Shooting Strangers
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I loved your post! I feel related in so many ways. I’m a surf photographer and I love it because I use a zoom lens and I don’t need to talk to people to take their photos.
I only talk to the surfer later on, when they find me in social media asking if I have some photo of their surf session.
As a good photographer that I try to be, I have tried street photography, but it is by far the kind of photography that I like because of what you said, I don’t want to walk to a stranger and ask him/her to take a photo.
Although I don’t like it, I was offered a summer job at a summer/pool club where I should take photos of everyone, and I had to talk to them all. It was kind of uncomfortable for me, but it allowed me to get out of my “bubble”.
I plan on posting some of theses photos sometime soon :)
Yay, I'm glad! Surf photography, now that sounds like fun. Lol, there's a time for talking and a time for taking photos and they usually don't coincide. Thankfully I don't have very many people who I photograph trying to track me down.
Street photography is definitely something that takes some getting used to but I feel like the more you do it the easier it gets. Don't think it ever gets completely easy though.
Getting out of your bubble is good but I wish it didn't have to be so annoying :) Before I got started with photography I waited tables, didn't get to take photos but it got me out of my bubble with approaching and talking with people.
I look forward to seeing them!