Downtown Crossing ‘Street Photographers’ Crossing The Line?
You stand around looking left and right for interesting subjects to shoot. Then you shoot them as discreetly as you can (so they don't stare at you and spoil the candid moment) then you move onto the next subject. It's not perverted, it's just the way you do it.
The problem here is the tabloid journalism used:
"Hunt down women and children" etc. is just the TV's way of getting you to think the way they do.
I mean the freakin' "report" starts out with:
"It's strange behavior. It's raising red flags in down-town Boston"
There's ya clue that the rest of the report is full of half truths.
He even says they're taking "unusual (with emphasis) picture of people going by" HOW DOES HE KNOW THAT? Utter BS man. Why because a guy was "quietly crouching behind a group of women taking pictures of what, looks like, bare legs." WHAT?! Again that's his dirty thoughts, how does he know the photographers intentions.
The real perverts use cell phones and hidden cams. These guys are just normal street photographers. Sheesh. The media sucks.
You guys should be more worried about the media demonizing photographer than these guys giving people a bad name.
In fact they could probably sue the TV station for this.
Steven Swanson wrote: These photographers have some serious issues. How can they not know what they are doing is awfully wrong??
You're doing EXACTLY what the so called "journalists" have done with this story. Loaded the opinions before people even get to see what the video is about.
mj~shutterbugg wrote: I want to take the photographers side, really I do- but they we're acting cowardly and that raised a red flag with me. If you are a legit photographer doing street photography, wouldn't you WANT exposure so you could promote your work? If that were me- I would be handing out business cards saying check my stuff out- see what I can do! They were hiding asking them to turn the camera off and acted really funny when confronted by a news crew. These camera operators had zooms, there was zero need to go up for a macro between some person's legs. The public is highly bothered by them, and while it is legal it isn't nice.
Well true you might not like it, but it doesn't change the fact that this was tabloid and ambush journalism. The "reporters" need to be ashamed for bring... oh they're journalists, they have no shame. LOL
Also, how would you respond if you were taking pictures somewhere and a news crew ambushed you?!
They say they don't like to be photographed and then they cut to the guy asking them to turn the camera off. For all we know the journalist has just accused him of being a pedophile or something. I mean the guy did say the "journalist" kept hammering on them about taking photos of kids and women... HEAVY editing is another clue there's something wrong with the story.
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