Street Photography: If the photo subject objects or is displeased, apologize and do not proceed, or delete.

IF I CAN DO IT, YOU CAN DO IT TOO — just show motion or emotion thru the photo

Street Photography: Just to clarify: If the photo subject objects or is displeased, apologize and do not proceed, or delete.

On whether or not to show the faces of your subjects in street photography: There are two or more schools of thought: 1.If it is a public street and the people in these public streets are going about their public activities knowing that they are visible to a lot of people —  for example, persons publicly selling goods on the streets, or people engaged in obviously publicly visible work on the streets such as ice cream vendors, streetsweepers, traffic management staff, building workers rappelling on windows to clean, or workers balancing on scaffolding — you can “street-photograph” the subjects but without providing any identifying mark or labels and only if they did not object – if they objected, you have to delete the photo or refrain from taking the photo, and smile and apologize. 2.The other extreme of course is not to show any faces at all. This would make a lot of street photography not possible. 3.Do not photograph children without their parent’s consent; if you must, do not show faces of children at all.

Jane ( our Jane Lambino, Los Angeles ) gave me a real digital stand-alone camera (not a camera phone but a real digicam that had more pixels and a lens) EVEN BEFORE I KNEW THERE WAS SUCH A THING AS STREET PHOTOGRAPHY, and even before i have heard that there were different kinds of photography, i took photos with it viscerally without knowing the principles of photography and values like lighting, framing, composition etc. — just shot what i thought was a story. Here are samples of those unstudied, untrained, on-pure-reflex shots (which years later i learned from that seminar could be categorized as “street photography”) — take a look-see how rough and tumble they are —

before i knew what they were called (amateur examples)

TRIGGER ⚠ WARNING : Second photo is GRAPHIC

…which i later pixelated in this manner:

… before i knew what they were.