I saw a wonderful project a few years back where the person did
almost exactly that. Set up on a street in a run down urban section
and invited the local people to come and get photographed any way
they chose. Shot them as they were and as they wanted to be. Of
course, that was medium format B&W film days and it ain't too candid
but it worked brilliantly. You need the personality to get away with
it though. I find as I get older and hairier, people don't feel so
threatened by me somehow.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 09/11/2007, at 9:07 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> If, as our Andrew says, Down is the new Up, perhaps in street
> photography, Conspicuous is the new Inconspicuous. I'm thinking about
> getting a blaze orange vest em-ah-blazoned with "PHOTOGRAPHER"
> across the back, and switching to all-Canon gear so I can heft those
> big white lenses on a Gitzo monopod. Maybe take up a good shooting
> position and put some cones out around me, too. I'll be so
> conspicuous people will ignore me after a very few minutes.
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