On Sep 25, 2006, at 5:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not mentioned it in my post, but actually I put my camera down and > didn't shoot the picture with the women in it. > > But frankly, I don't intend to wander through the city with my > camera, frame something interesting and each time have to check: > "oh, would there be any muslim people in my frame, because then I > should not take this picture?". > > So I strongly disagree with the second part of your message! > > But I do agree that it's a matter of courtesy not to shoot people > who (for whatever reason) object. Of course this implies that you > point the camera at them first, because they don't write it on > their backs.
My philosophy has always been to shoot the photo first and deal with any objections after. Once in Italy I was photographing an old archway in a town (might have been Bassano del Grappa) and had everything framed up just right when two nuns in their stark black and white habits came walking through the arch. They really made the picture, so I snapped a couple of shots. One of them took umbrage at this and came over to me and began berating me in Italian, wagging her finger at me. I don't know any Italian, so I don't know what she was saying, but I just gave my most exaggerated shrug and said "I don't understand you" in English. I guess she realized at that point that I was a tourist, and she and her companion walked on. As I had done them no harm in taking the photo, I had no problem at all in printing it and showing it to people. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
