Shooting People: Daily Dose of Imagery

By Johnny Cat in Blogs & Internet, Pictures on Jan 29, 2010 at 5:58 pm

Photo: Sam Javanrouh

Sam Javanrouh’s blog, Daily Dose of Imagery, features his photography, one image per day. Today he posted many great photos he’s taken which all fall under one tricky umbrella of shooting – people on the street. People can be unpredictable when it comes to being photographed; Sam tells of friends who have had gear broken and suffered injuries at the hands of their subjects. But on the flip side, being a great photographer is often about seizing the moment and forgoing polite introductions. Sam on the photo above:

When I took this I was almost certain that I didn’t even have a sharp photo. But when i saw it later I liked it. So no way to ask her now. I won’t be selling this image for stock use. And if she ever contacts me and tells me she’s unhappy about it I’ll take it off the site. Street photography is all about the fractions of a second. You have to take the shot when you think you have it (to be precise, you take the shot just before the moment. Good photographers can see the future.

And on this one, he remarks, “I still have a hard time sleeping at night, thinking what will happen to me if I’ve seriously pissed off the dark knight.”

Photo: Sam Javanrouh

Link, and… as Sam says, Happy Shooting!

Tags: people, permission, Photography, release, stock, strangers, Street

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Woogie
Jan 30th, 2010 at 12:25 am
You take a photo of me while I’m on the street and you’ll be picking bits of the lens out of your forehead for weeks.

Unacceptable to do this IMO. One thing for your own personal use, or perhaps even an exhibit, but to plaster pictures of someone online without their permission is the act of a pretentious douchebag.
Christophe
Jan 30th, 2010 at 12:42 am
There’s so many times I wished I had a camera to fix an image that I wanted to keep in a better place that in my filmsy neurones. Such this time when, in the MBTA, a Dad was reading comics as his +/- 7 years old son was reading the Boston Globe.

Then I would have been tempted to publish it, of course.
LisaL
Jan 30th, 2010 at 3:20 am
Great photos, but I agree. Posting the ones where he didn’t get permission online for the world to see is not cool.
Even if the person comes along and sees it and wants it taken down. That photo is probably now circulating everywhere.
Johnny Cat
Jan 30th, 2010 at 3:28 am
Hopefully Master Wayne will understand the need for art in Gotham.
vote photo
Jan 30th, 2010 at 5:31 am
i like this : not-that-into-you_subway pic. good photo
ted
Jan 30th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
Is this guy making any money from his web site? Is he using the web site for promotional reasons? Then he is behaving unethically and probably illegally by not getting his subjects’ permission.
Marc Bresse
Jan 31st, 2010 at 6:32 pm
I too have strong objections… when you are taking a photo of someone, you take from the subject without giving anything in return. That sounds like a very unfair exchange which you have imposed on your subject. Dont you owe it to yourself to make that exchange, fair, welcomed by both parties and as ethical as possible?
Cooper
Feb 1st, 2010 at 7:24 am
Er, have all of you that are objecting to this never heard of Street Photography?
Amit
May 18th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Nice photos, I don’t think there is anything wrong with street photography, but shouldn’t you ask for permission when using these types of images in a blog like this? After all you are posting their photos on a blog that is running adverts so technically that photo of them is generating you a profiit???

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