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06/23/2002 11:36:09 AM · #1 |
For the latest challenge I decided to incorporate a complete series of photos with some interesting events going on in our city, some political battles and just some strange stuff.
For one set of photos I was questioned by the police and had fight to keep from getting some shots erased.
I will have the series on my photo site after the voting.
No one photo will do justice to the theme but it's funny what some people find threatening nowadays. |
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06/23/2002 12:49:41 PM · #2 |
Hokie, what part of VA do you live in? I think Corey had some problems with the police on a shot he did a few challenges back... :)
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06/23/2002 01:11:00 PM · #3 |
Lynchburg...Very conservative area.
The main thing that started them in was that I was in a police academy parking space (Standing taking photos..not parked). Then the fun stuff started when they saw what I was doing and then some college kids got going on them whcih didn't help matters >:-/
I used to make business trips to Hickory, North Carolina once a month several years ago. That place is a lot like Lynchburg. Quiet, conservative and blue collar.
Good places both..just authority is getting a little uptight everywhere it seems in the last year or so :-)
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06/23/2002 01:11:57 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by hokie:
No one photo will do justice to the theme but it's funny what some people find threatening nowadays.
Quick post, then gotta run to the airport:
when i am out shooting i find out very quickly that even though the US is a free country, people still have really strange reactions to the presence of a camera in their midst.
although it is not against the law to walk around taking pictures of things in public, people will often react to you as if just the opposite is true!
hoewver it's not that hard to understand. i think part of it is more fundamental than the camera itself: if a stranger starts scrutinizing you, you're kind of going to want to confront them about it. "Um, what is so interesting about me that you're standing there photographing me?"
Are you stalking me? Are you surveilling me. Etc.
But the interesting thing is how the desire for privacy is so butting head to head with the explosion in digital cameras and camcorders. On the other hand, the same rules, of staring too intently at strangers apply.
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06/23/2002 02:19:56 PM · #5 |
It is always interesting when I go to shoot downtown, Seattle, in my case. Something unique always seems to happen which keeps it exciting. It's funny, in most of my shots, when I zoom in and look around, there always seems to be one person staring back at me wondering what I am doing. panhandlers are a lot more interested in getting my change when they see me walking around with a pretty hi-tech looking camera. I'm learning to be pretty stealthy in my shooting, usually by setting everything up with my camera and in my head when I am looking a different direction from my intended shot and then I turn and quickly take the shot, sometimes from down low using the swivel body on my camera. It looks to everyone else that I was just quickly taking an unimportant shot or that I am simpy looking at my camera. I even paid one street person a dollar to take his shot next to something incredible he was doing. I'm pretty sure I am not actually going to use that picture but if I do I don't want to give it away any more than I already have. I'll probably post the photo later so you can see what I am talking about. In most cases I am completely ignored when I shoot in the city. It's a pretty intersing feeling, walking around among hundreds or even thousands of people, in some cases, and still feeling like you are alone.
Tim
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06/23/2002 03:22:54 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by timj351:
It is always interesting when I go to shoot downtown, Seattle....
I agree. Seattle has more colorful winos than Tacoma, especially down in the Pioneer Square area. I always cary a few dollar bills, a buck seems to be the going rate for a few shots. After all, that's what they want anyway, a shot. A couple years ago I was shooting that anti-globalization riot with my D1 and an older, 1.5mp Sony. The D1 was good for bluffing my way past police lines (in the beginning) and the little Sony was good for stealth. I ended up taking more pictures of the photographers running around with $15k around their necks than the protesters.
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06/23/2002 03:31:58 PM · #7 |
Hehe, a town named "Lynchburg" is cnservative? Wonder of wonders. hehe. I am in Spokane WA, and the police here are downright fascits sometimes. This is a very underpayed, highly racist, part of the country. Our vagrants are nice, but there are way more in this small town than i ever saw back home in Cleveland. It is kinda strange how each city has a personality of it's own.
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06/23/2002 05:11:30 PM · #8 |
| There are so many gosh darned tourists around Boston this time of year...especially when I'm walking around with my Fuji, using the viewfinder (which makes it look like any other P&S camera), people are much more interested in having me take pictures of them on vacation than paying attention to what I'm doing. When I spent a few hours out and about looking for stuff for 'city life', very few people seemed to even notice my camera. However, I had 4 different couples ask me to take their picture (with their own camera) in various locations :) |
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06/23/2002 05:49:05 PM · #9 |
No tourist come to my town... lol.. people come here to buy furniture tho :)
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06/23/2002 06:24:18 PM · #10 |
That's why I don't really like photographing people. I think it's a bit intrusive and after all you put the photos of them on the Internet for everyone to see. I understand that people feel a bit uncomfortable about that and I feel uncomfortable doing this, too. Maybe that changes when I'm more experienced and actually can take good photos ;-)
But no reason to get detained by the police though. Makes me wonder what photos you did... ;-) Or the police in the US is much more concerned than here in Europe. |
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06/23/2002 08:55:26 PM · #11 |
hey, I was born in Lynchburg, VA. What a small world.
The police maybe a bit edgy because there was a few drive by shootings this past week. |
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06/23/2002 09:02:39 PM · #12 |
There are so many gosh darned tourists around Boston this time of year...especially when I'm walking around with my Fuji, using the viewfinder (which makes it look like any other P&S camera), people are much more interested in having me take pictures of them on vacation than paying attention to what I'm doing. When I spent a few hours out and about looking for stuff for 'city life', very few people seemed to even notice my camera. However, I had 4 different couples ask me to take their picture (with their own camera) in various locations :)
Hehe, in just over 2 weeks from now, my boyfriend and I will be a couple of those tourists :) In fact, we're going to be traveling around the US for 3 weeks altogether. I've never been overseas before (almost got to go to Malaysia last year, but then for various reasons related to Sept. 11 and a conference being called off, we didn't go).
I was really excited when I saw this challenge, because I'd already tried taking a couple of photos involving Perth's beautiful skyline, first during the "People" challenge, then during "On the Road". But then I took a photo of something else entirely, and was really happy with it. So that skyline photo will have to wait for yet another challenge. |
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