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>>126065 It also really depends on the privacy laws of the location where you're shooting.
Here in France (lol) privacy laws are pretty tough, and you're not allowed to publish even on your own website a picture of a person without their consent. A famous case was Robert Doisneau getting sued by the couple seen kissing in one of his famous photographs; the couple won.
So people don't hesitate to get all bitchy from time to time when they think they might be in the picture you're taking, even if it's only illegal to publish it's not actually illegal to take the picture. However, as someone else said, no good street photographer follows these rules, and a smile and a willingness to explain what you're doing goes a long way to insure cooperation.
Fortunately for us photographers all countries don't have such privacy laws. It's pretty easy to photogrpah on the streets in London or New York you're more likely to get shit from security services than from people. And in poorer countries, people are way more open to being photographed, and even invite attention from the photographer...
Also, I can totally relate to camera shyness (>>125956). I've talked about it with some professional photojournalist friends who have a couple dozen years more experience, and the approach they take to get over the shyness (yes, it's still a problem with 20 years of experience) is to act as if they were invisible that is to convince themselves that their subject cannot see them and act accordingly or to convince themselves that, after all, everyone likes to have their picture taken, as long as they don't feel threatened. And guess when people feel threatened? That's right, when you're scared of them or of their reactions.
So street photography is as much about psychology and body language as it is about photographic skill...
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