Sean-Mcr
9th of May 2005 (Mon), 09:22
I'm always in my City taking street photography shots which is becoming my main photographic interest. I like capturing the life in my city by day and by night, a city that's changing which i was brought up in the heart of it. I've taken 100s of shots since i got my 20D (last sep) of people in and around town and never used anything longer then a 55mm
Until Saturday people have always shown great interest in what i was doing and i often send on the shots i take via email for free after i've took them.
What happened is i was walking past a back street in the city centre with my partner, her friend and her fella. I spotted two guys a bit worse for wear and hugging in a drunken stumble...Maybe i should have thought about it but there wasn't time to and i raised my camera and shot them so fast i never even had time to check where i had the af set to.
Minute i took it i heard a mighty yell...
I had until the guy ran down the street to get my camera and bag over my head to be able to defend myself. Just managed it before he got to me, his pal was with him trying to calm him down. You can’t tell half way up the street how out of it someone is but i knew when he got there he'd had a good few more beers then I’d realised. I tried as best i could to explain it was not taken to imply anything ect, that i meant nothing malicious in it. But he was just telling me he'd knock me out ect and getting more and more wound up following me down the street ect...
I had my partner with me, and the guy was getting more abusive and it's not just myself i had to worry about. So i went for him after trying every way to calm him down. So we end up having it out and his pal joins in so the lad with me grabs him and gives him a dig.
Basically we got the better of them, and some decent stranger who was bigger then all of us (i'm 6ft 200lbs) broke it up and the two lads went away...
Now, i don’t take photos to make fools of people, i take photos to capture a momeant in time. That’s all i'm interested in; I'm never going to be a guy to use a 70-200 to capture Candid, and if i started to ask people may a photograph them, then the nature of how i shoot will be lost...
Thankfully out of 100's of times that was my first negative reaction, one mistake in judgment combined with an over reaction and fellas with a drink in them..
I went back to taking the kind of shots i love to take for the rest of the day in bars and the street and got not bother, only smiles and general interest.
I won't let it change me, maybe i'll think a little more. I tend to just focus on what i'm doing, you don't often have time to think about things.
If you're not in to street photography ect you might find it hard to understand. But the last thing it's about is intruding. I'm not going to begin to try to convince anybody because if they don't know that already then i doubt i'd be able to. You get lost in something you love, and no matter what we all like to shoot i'm sure we can ll agree on that...
Knowing me, i'll get in to wildlife photography and get a Hitchcock style bird attack
:mad: :rolleyes: :)
Until Saturday people have always shown great interest in what i was doing and i often send on the shots i take via email for free after i've took them.
What happened is i was walking past a back street in the city centre with my partner, her friend and her fella. I spotted two guys a bit worse for wear and hugging in a drunken stumble...Maybe i should have thought about it but there wasn't time to and i raised my camera and shot them so fast i never even had time to check where i had the af set to.
Minute i took it i heard a mighty yell...
I had until the guy ran down the street to get my camera and bag over my head to be able to defend myself. Just managed it before he got to me, his pal was with him trying to calm him down. You can’t tell half way up the street how out of it someone is but i knew when he got there he'd had a good few more beers then I’d realised. I tried as best i could to explain it was not taken to imply anything ect, that i meant nothing malicious in it. But he was just telling me he'd knock me out ect and getting more and more wound up following me down the street ect...
I had my partner with me, and the guy was getting more abusive and it's not just myself i had to worry about. So i went for him after trying every way to calm him down. So we end up having it out and his pal joins in so the lad with me grabs him and gives him a dig.
Basically we got the better of them, and some decent stranger who was bigger then all of us (i'm 6ft 200lbs) broke it up and the two lads went away...
Now, i don’t take photos to make fools of people, i take photos to capture a momeant in time. That’s all i'm interested in; I'm never going to be a guy to use a 70-200 to capture Candid, and if i started to ask people may a photograph them, then the nature of how i shoot will be lost...
Thankfully out of 100's of times that was my first negative reaction, one mistake in judgment combined with an over reaction and fellas with a drink in them..
I went back to taking the kind of shots i love to take for the rest of the day in bars and the street and got not bother, only smiles and general interest.
I won't let it change me, maybe i'll think a little more. I tend to just focus on what i'm doing, you don't often have time to think about things.
If you're not in to street photography ect you might find it hard to understand. But the last thing it's about is intruding. I'm not going to begin to try to convince anybody because if they don't know that already then i doubt i'd be able to. You get lost in something you love, and no matter what we all like to shoot i'm sure we can ll agree on that...
Knowing me, i'll get in to wildlife photography and get a Hitchcock style bird attack
:mad: :rolleyes: :)