On 19 May 2013 03:12, Walt <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess the way I shoot may be a little different. I tend to make myself > pretty obvious when I'm shooting at small gatherings, etc. I tend to work > the room pretty actively, sometimes even stopping people to get a quick > shot. Then, I'll ease out to the periphery for a while. Once people have > seen me walking around taking a bunch of shots, they get a little inured to > it. And then, once I've faded into the background, they seem to drop their > guard and just kind of forget I'm even there. And that's when I tend to get > my best shots. > > It also helps when I get a shot from a distance and discover after chimping > that it's pretty good, and I walk over and show it to them. People seem to > relax if they know I'm actually there to take good photos and not just > random shots of people being goofy.
This is pretty much exactly my experience too, even wielding a large 80-200/2.8 zoom over a relatively short time the crowd mostly completely forgets about you. Having a camera over each shoulder seems to reassure people too for some reason, like the "big camera equals pro" effect I assume. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
