To people or not to people, that is the questionslimcodeSeptember 17 2006, 17:37:05 UTC
Ha! I always thought it was the other way round with you... i.e., you found peopled pix boring and peopleless ones interesting: because you always seemed to disdain the peopled ones and to take the unpeopled kind predominantly...
But is there in China a cultural taboo about taking someone's photo on the street? Like, erm, one of those tribes that Lévi-Strauss writes about (was it the Tlingit or the Bororo or the Nambikwara people?) whose religious beliefs hold that if someone takes your picture, he has stolen your soul, or part of it?
In this neck of the woods anyhow, there's no choice & therefore no problem: you step on the street, you get your picture took!
May I suggest a change of cameras: you need one with a longer zoom lens. Your 3x optical zoom is not quite enough to afford discretion. Even 5x would let you avoid feeling that you were intruding or getting into someone's face. And of course you'll get much better portraits if your subjects don't know they're being photographed...
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PPS. You can call me Morning Hill in your way of saying Chinese names. XD
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But is there in China a cultural taboo about taking someone's photo on the street? Like, erm, one of those tribes that Lévi-Strauss writes about (was it the Tlingit or the Bororo or the Nambikwara people?) whose religious beliefs hold that if someone takes your picture, he has stolen your soul, or part of it?
In this neck of the woods anyhow, there's no choice & therefore no problem: you step on the street, you get your picture took!
May I suggest a change of cameras: you need one with a longer zoom lens. Your 3x optical zoom is not quite enough to afford discretion. Even 5x would let you avoid feeling that you were intruding or getting into someone's face. And of course you'll get much better portraits if your subjects don't know they're being photographed...
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