nostatic
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As I get more into street shots, I find I'm butting up against my own shyness and hesitancy to "intrude" on other people. I feel self-conscious pointing a camera at someone even in public places. What I tried today was putting the DLux3 on manual focus and holding the camera at my side, snapping off shots as I saw them but never bringing the camera up to frame the shot. As you'd expect, a lot of garbage but also some good bits as well. I have found a limitation to the native 16x9 though - it is easier and more unobtrusive to hold the camera vertically, and that means I have a lot narrower area to play with to get a shot. For that reason (among others) I'm pondering a GRD2. I also shot only at 28mm today and found it great for this (as has been shown here and historically) so I'm thinking having a non-zoom camera might be a good fit for this and me finding odd macro shots in strange places.
A friend pokes fun at me though as says this type of shooting is voyeuristic. I somewhat agree, but I'm not sure how else to get the shot. So my question is do any of you shoot this way and how do you feel about it?
A friend pokes fun at me though as says this type of shooting is voyeuristic. I somewhat agree, but I'm not sure how else to get the shot. So my question is do any of you shoot this way and how do you feel about it?