idk its kindof hard to just start taking photos of ppl tho right?

ya but you are gr80

i won't argue that fact

Locate hookers, use flash and run...
http://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=2651
Otherwise everyone does this.
http://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=1937
http://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=1906

or get them asleep
http://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=13269
http://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=1943

Or take them when they are posing for someone else
http://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=13249

Or choose vain folk who love having their pics taken.

http://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=13252
http://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=1466

And if all else fails, get a bit drunk so you do not mind being up in people's faces, but not so drunk you lose your camera
http://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=4565

or so drunk that pics are out of focus, like that one.

I think that I got some good ones today, but as I only took my film camera out, and am skint, no doubt this film will sit in my fridge until I have enough money to develop them. Anyway, there was a drunk chap outside asking where I was going, in his hand a fag that he did not have the means to light. I popped into the shop and got him a lighter and asked for some pics, saying I wanted to take photos of people on the street. Took 4 before he stoppped me; It was only a lighter after all. But I felt very shitty. It is okay to get drunk to take pics of people when you would not normally do so. But to take pics of drunks is not the same at all. Everyone has their own story and most don't want it to be on a camera.

I apologise for the bad writing,
If the pics come out, I will post them.

Found a new way today, Basically, bang your headphones on, blast the music up and keep snapping away. People my get annoyed but you are barely there; just some person snapping away with headphones on. Bob Dylan is good to snap to.

Great in a place where you do not speak the lingo, but usual rules apply. People tend to let you know if they do not want pics taken via gestures, headphones let you deal with the ones who are okay with it. Music can distract from remembering your camera settings too. Keep a track on WB, ISO, etc.

If anything comes of today's 400 pics I will let you see.

I love those old photos that were taken by street photographers. This is one of my grandfather with my grandmother and his mother in Mexico City in the 1940s. I wouldn't mind having my photo taken this way. If it was good, sure I'd pay for it. I love to shoot people with my Polaroid Land camera in black and white.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tera/4734310614/in/set-72157624357532506

picture doesn't load for me, alas

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tera/4734310614/in/set-72157624357532506

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1203/4734310614_515fd2042e.jpg

You never got your ass kicked for taking a picture?

Occasionally I will. But usually what I’ll say is, [in an overtly upbeat, ingenuous voice] ‘May I take your picture? I’m from Memphis!’ I have found that always works. They say, ‘Oh, sure’. There’s some magic about that, ‘I’m from Memphis!’ I just stumbled on it. Nobody told me that secret. You can use it yourself. Just say, ‘Hey, I’m from Memphis!’ For some reason they know that word ‘Memphis’. You could say some other city, I don’t think it would have the same ring to it. Say, ‘I’m from Savannah’, I don’t think that would work.

i'd imagine Saskatoon would be hard to say no to as well!

winnipeg imo

But the most difficult thing for me is not street photography. It’s a portrait. The difference between a portrait and a snapshot is that in a portrait, a person agreed to be photographed. But certainly it’s like a biologist and his microscope. When you study the thing, it doesn’t react as when it’s not studied. And you have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt, which is not an easy thing, because you steal something. The strange thing is that you see people naked through your viewfinder. And it’s sometimes very embarrassing.

I’m always nervous when I go to take a portrait, because it’s a new experience. Usually when taking a portrait, I feel like putting a few questions just to get the reaction of a person. It’s difficult to talk at the same time that you observe with intensity the face of somebody. But still, you must establish a contact of some sort. Whereas with Ezra Pound, I stood in front of him for maybe an hour and a half in utter silence. We were looking at each other in the eye. He was rubbing his fingers. I took maybe altogether one good photograph, four other possible, and two which were not interesting. That makes about six pictures in an hour and a half. And no embarrassment on either side.

-- terry richardson

Ha ha!