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Anonymous
A little trick, though I'm not sure how it'd work (or go over) with the feds in a situation like AC's:
Carry two memory cards. Snap a few disposable, useless photographs on one. Stick it in your pocket. If someone who looks as if they could be violently upset about their photograph being taken (whether it was or not) starts coming towards you, quickly swap the cards.
Worst case scenario, your camera is smashed on the ground and your nose is broken in three places, but at least you've got the shot.
(Luckily, this trick has not proven necessary yet, although I do execute it whenever it could.)
And OP, just go out and take some photographs. You won't look dorky. Hell, walking around with even a superzoom I get people thinking it some old professional film camera and/or that I work for the newspaper. With a DSLR, you'll get away with anything except reservoir photographs, apparently.
But yeah, the main advice in this thread is to always act like (and this goes for everything, not just photography) you have the authority and even the obligation to be where you are and doing what you're doing. Just "take mental ownership," as some piece of self-help junk phrased it at some point, of the place. Be the bastard love child of Bruce Gilden and Jules Winfield.
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