An afternoon in Starbucks....

[Glyyde]

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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y170/Glyyde/IMG_0797copy.jpg


2.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y170/Glyyde/IMG_0795copy.jpg


3.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y170/Glyyde/IMG_0799copy.jpg

[acidhouse]

Nice pics,
Did the staff give you any grief?
I've always wanted to take photos in Bucks but thought they might have some policy against it being a commercial property etc.

[grego]

Nice pics,
Did the staff give you any grief?
I've always wanted to take photos in Bucks but thought they might have some policy against it being a commercial property etc.

I've had my camera in there many times and no, nothing happens. Now, taking photos of people when they don't expect it, that might draw some crap, but no, they are cool. Always depends on the people working of course.

[GyRob]

super shots ,candid make many of the great photos of our time ,yet people here in the uk always look at you with supicion if out in public with a camera ," why are you taking photos" theres little you can say as they wont except its for the joy of getting phots of life.
Rob.

[Glyyde]

I took this in Starbucks Manchester..... did not know of any such policies.... just took out my camera and snap them from where I sit.....

I would really want a polarizer now.... seeing that the reflection from the glass are not what I would prefer to have in my pics.....

[acidhouse]

thought i recognised the building in the background.
I want to take snaps of the counter staff working but havn't picked up the courage to ask... yet.

[Jakov]

Just look at the 3.rd shot. Amazing light efect. White paper makes the passive reflector to her face. Absolute winner. First two are not so interesting compared to this one ;-)

[Glyyde]

i was indeed thinking for a long time whether or not I should snap the pics.... couldn't resist in the end as the lighting are just too nice to miss

[djsusm]

My question in this situation is the following... Do you usually ask the subjects for permission? Of course, for candid shots like these (beautiful, by the way) you'd have to check with them afterwards. I was just curious to see if if was proper etiquitte to get permission or not. Whenever I'm taking shots where a stranger is the main subject of the photo, I feel like I'm invading their privacy if I don't check with them.

[transcend]

Quick Derail - I will be in manchester on and off early september (sept 5-19). Is there any particlar sites and touristey photo ops i shouldn't miss? I will be pressed for time as I will be travelling between London, Milan, livigno, Zurich, Fort William and Manchester back and forth for 4 weeks.

great shots at starbucks..love the candid stuff.

[Glyyde]

if u inform the subjects, wouldn't that makes them not natural anymore? telling them after might just caused some stir-up.....

as lots of ppl do.... one of the most important place to visit in Manchester is Old Trafford (Man U. Stadium for those who doesn't know)..... other than that, they are pretty much the same as other places.... maybe the Chinatown?

[I Simonius]

My question in this situation is the following... Do you usually ask the subjects for permission? Of course, for candid shots like these (beautiful, by the way) you'd have to check with them afterwards. I was just curious to see if if was proper etiquitte to get permission or not. Whenever I'm taking shots where a stranger is the main subject of the photo, I feel like I'm invading their privacy if I don't check with them.

I wonder if some of the old photographers with little Leicas worried about this - probably not - as there was not such a perception at that time that photography could be used to infringe civil liberties or for perverted reasons. Although they might, just might, have got published, the internet didn't exist , so the concern that all and sundry would view your private moments wasn't there. There wasn't the thought that they might be part of some praising or damning editorial, as it wasn't the habit of the papers at the time to include pics of unknowns, ppaparrazi was an unknown word.

Yet here we are, with a tradition of street photographers who shot everything that caught their eye without fear or compunction, worrying about all the permutations of responsability and implicit culpability that modern society can place upon us.

It is with a sense of nostalgia, and of innocence lost, that I go out now to try to respond spontaneously with my camera, to capture those fleeting moments that may carry with them the virus of suspicion. :cry:

[Lotto]

Very nice lighting and subjects. on #1, when I see her finger, first thing comes to my mind is ... monopod:D