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Forum: General Photography
03-29-2015, 01:46 PM
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After reading this story again I say the photographers are partly to blame. First of all if you go into some small poor little town where nobody knows you, with out of state plates and you start firing your camera away like a maniac, you might get that reaction anywhere in the US, especially if that town is not use to seeing tourists. Then you start taking pictures of kids without their parents permission and you are playing with Fire ! Even if you meant well, the proper thing to do would be to ask permission. The excuse that they were planning to shoot a Documentary doesn't even hold up legally an makes matters worse. If that was the case it would mean those pictures could be used for Public distribution, not just vacation snap-shots.
Even when I travel I am very careful what I shoot. If I notice signs of nervousness or discomfort I put the camera down. I have been to places in the Caribbean where people especially dirt-poor people do not want their pictures taken for obvious reasons. I once had a guide who told me not to take pictures of the down-trodden if I could help it...
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Forum: General Photography
03-29-2015, 12:29 PM
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Sounds like a backward country not the US.
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