High Rise Exterior Window Cleaning
Had a rather unpleasant experience when taking this photo. I found this high rise interesting, as it had some red walls, plus there were people dropping down from above cleaning the exterior windows. Just after I raised my camera taking the photo, a guy approached me asking me what was interesting about the building. At first I thought this was a "friendly" inquiry, but before I even opened my mouth to explain, he interrupted, "i am also familiar with photography, there is nothing interesting about this building" then he went on accusing me of some "questionable" motive like trying to take photos of someone's apartment and asking me to leave before he call the police!! I was like 😳
There're people with mental issues wandering in downtown, so I tried to keep myself at a distance and not responding in a verbally aggressive way. I replied, "well since you said you're familiar with photography, you should have known that I am using a regular lens that cannot zoom in close enough to see the inside of the apartment", plus "I am shooting in a street which is public domain not someone else's property, and this is afternoon with daylight, it's not like I am using a powerful zoom lens taking photo of someone's room after dark". Then I backed away until arriving at a safe distance, and yelled back, "for some reasons, this building and this scene REALLY interested me, too bad it didn't interest you", and off I went to get my afternoon latte.
I see many on Flickr posted street scene photography showing strangers in the photo, not sure if anyone have had "similar" upleasant experiences while shooting in an urban setting?
High Rise Exterior Window Cleaning
Had a rather unpleasant experience when taking this photo. I found this high rise interesting, as it had some red walls, plus there were people dropping down from above cleaning the exterior windows. Just after I raised my camera taking the photo, a guy approached me asking me what was interesting about the building. At first I thought this was a "friendly" inquiry, but before I even opened my mouth to explain, he interrupted, "i am also familiar with photography, there is nothing interesting about this building" then he went on accusing me of some "questionable" motive like trying to take photos of someone's apartment and asking me to leave before he call the police!! I was like 😳
There're people with mental issues wandering in downtown, so I tried to keep myself at a distance and not responding in a verbally aggressive way. I replied, "well since you said you're familiar with photography, you should have known that I am using a regular lens that cannot zoom in close enough to see the inside of the apartment", plus "I am shooting in a street which is public domain not someone else's property, and this is afternoon with daylight, it's not like I am using a powerful zoom lens taking photo of someone's room after dark". Then I backed away until arriving at a safe distance, and yelled back, "for some reasons, this building and this scene REALLY interested me, too bad it didn't interest you", and off I went to get my afternoon latte.
I see many on Flickr posted street scene photography showing strangers in the photo, not sure if anyone have had "similar" upleasant experiences while shooting in an urban setting?