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What do you do when youre accosted by a citizen?
The woods, the scantily clad girl, the light, i's all there...so is someone intent on figuring out what your doing, either yelling at you from a distance or getting in your face. What do you do? Because you know if you just blow them off theyre going to play Mrs. Good Citizen and call the police. I usually start like this and keep going down the list until they leave. First answer to what Im doing is - Working. Second is - We are working here, and you know time is money, Im sure you understand. Have a nice day. Third is - I understand this is all terribly interesting for you but my insurance only covers people Im actually working with. Goodbye. Fourth is - As I said we are working here, and now you are interfering with us. Who are you and what exactly is your business here? This usually gets them to leave. If it goes further than this I usually just turn the camera on them and start snapping. Youd think people were cave men afraid that the camera will steal their soul they run from having their picture taken. //Yes Ive used each of these. Jun 19 06 01:05 pm Link welcome, my worst was some repub retard from the red states that stopped and did not like my suggestion that she moved on QUICKLY , that started lecturing me about the evils of nudity. Well I said, I will NEVER want to see you nude, so BYE, move ON. What I like are the people you ask to move on that take two steps backward and stand there. Or the one lady that stood there with her four year old and chatted with us through the nude shoot. But, I like your suggestion, Start taking pics of them. Jun 19 06 01:54 pm Link "Get out of here before I slit your throat." Jun 19 06 01:57 pm Link SKPhoto wrote: I tell them to fuck off then I wait for the cops so I too can have an "almost arrested" story for my MM fans. Jun 19 06 01:57 pm Link Fifth- Start yelling in Farsi. Jun 19 06 02:05 pm Link I like the 4th one best..... People hate that. Except this guy he loved it... I told him if he didn't stop I was going to call the police and then I got out my camera phone. (Ended up with this image for all my trouble.  He asked if I needed help. I hired him on the spot. Gave him 5 bucks and sent him to get one calorie diet coke for the models. I bet he's still looking. Jun 19 06 02:05 pm Link SK EVERYTHING you mentioned above was confrontational.... and bound for disaster. I'm just glad you are not part of my team... which are always instructed to refer all people to me... and I take care of it. SKPhoto wrote: Jun 19 06 02:11 pm Link Usually polite answers to a few questions and they move on If that doesnt work a couple of stares and a growl usually does the trick Oddest one to date was a very large paramilitary wannabe guy in camo fatigues and a backpack who kept going around the loop trail every five minutes obviously hoping the model was going to take off that bra When he tried to quietly stalk up through the woods off trail I left the model and the escort got around behind him and started following him until he vanished and didnt come back Jun 19 06 02:15 pm Link Steven Bigler wrote: You take care of it...in a non-confrontational manner...what, you apologize and tell everyone to pack up? Jun 19 06 02:20 pm Link A single warning shot... Jun 19 06 02:23 pm Link SKPhoto wrote: That's illegal. They can demand that you destroy the film, erase the card or otherwise confiscate your recording medium. Jun 19 06 02:26 pm Link Graham Walker wrote: In a public place...bwahahahahahahahahaha. They can demand what they want. Means nothing. Jun 19 06 02:30 pm Link Graham Walker wrote: Damn sticky buttons. Jun 19 06 02:30 pm Link Graham Walker wrote: Really? So Henri Cartier-Bresson's estate has to destroy all of his images!? Bummer. Jun 19 06 02:33 pm Link Graham Walker wrote: not in the US (in most states) Jun 19 06 02:36 pm Link have my shoot security throw there ass the hell out if they refuse to move on, and if they found my team some one was not doing there job very well either, i should know long before any one comes our way that they are coming and we stop,have a cold drink and shoot after they move on, nothing to see no reason to stay. Jun 19 06 02:38 pm Link I don't think there's any (initial) reason to get defensive. People are generally just curious beasts. Why else would there be a huge slow down on the side of the freeway moving opposite of the accident? Everyone just wants to see what's going on. In every instance, the photographer just told them that we were doing a shoot, "thanks for stopping by, we're doing just fine here". At which point the bystander looks at me for confirmation.....I repeat what the photographer said, smile and get back to work. They usually leave, curiosity satisfied. Jun 19 06 02:39 pm Link KatieK wrote: Right. They're just wanting to make certain you're not studying evolution. Jun 19 06 02:48 pm Link I lick them Jun 19 06 02:54 pm Link the one and only time that happened... they never found the body. i'll go to richers for three or four years just to prove my point! M.Rappaport (pop copy, chapelle's show) Jun 19 06 03:01 pm Link Graham Walker wrote: they can demand all they want...but you dont have to do anything unless they produce a court order.. Jun 19 06 03:07 pm Link Im'age NY (INY) wrote: THIS ALWAYS WORKS FOR ME--AND WAVE YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR FRANTICLY WHILE YOU ARE YELLING !!!!!!!!!!!! Jun 19 06 03:07 pm Link Did a girl-girl shoot on a remote beach quite a while ago....years, in fact......out of nowhere comes this woman with two boys....looked to be about 9 & 11.....at first they didn't realize what I was taking photos of becuse of distance.....but as they got closer and mom finally saw the almost nude models....her eyes got big as quarters and then her boys....bless their little inquisitve minds...LOL.....started to run over and get a closer look......so mom was kept busy not trying to keep her two interested sons from coming over and holding her hands over their eyes at the same time......LOL....never said a word.....just kept looking straight ahead like we were invisible....and kept wrestling with her sons so they could look either....and all the way down the beach all I heard was....Awwwww ..MOM! Jun 19 06 03:22 pm Link SKPhoto wrote: You mean it doesn't??? Really??? Jun 19 06 03:31 pm Link MMDesign wrote: Hahahahahahahahaha! Made my day with that one! I just hope like hell that no single person from the Kansas Board of Education happens upon someone doing a nude shoot - all hell would break loose and photography would be banned in Kansas, too! Jun 19 06 03:33 pm Link Mike Cummings wrote: Actually, you get them pissed off enough to touch you. That's assault. Then YOU call the police. Jun 19 06 03:34 pm Link Star wrote: as in oral or as in whup ass. Jun 19 06 03:34 pm Link KatieK wrote: So are friggen Penguins but you don't want them hanging around ether. Jun 19 06 03:39 pm Link Where are you all shooting that you run into so many people? 40 years and I have had someone come upon me shooting a total of 2 times. And boith times I or one of the models saw them first and go dressed BEFORE they arrived on the scene.... Now days models seem to always want to bring a friend to the first shoot or two...so put the "friend" to work as lookout. That's as close as I come to having any "waht to do when caught by someone" advice....that and just DON'T get caught. Mike Jun 19 06 03:40 pm Link I agree with Mike Walker..... where do you shoot to get accosted by a citizen? I've never had this happen.................... Jun 19 06 04:03 pm Link Shooting in downtown Atlanta, never had a problem because it happens so much. Shooting in suburbian Atlanta... Problems. I've had to tell quite a few people to either fuck off or keep stepping. Only had the police show up once (some waterfall park, he was cool). Shooting in my neighborhood was easier because I knew the local yokels and they knew me. So I would simply tell them they had 2 minutes of stare time. Then they'd move on like it was nothing. Columbus, I haven't been bothered here at all. Hopefully I never... Oh wait, there was that one time I was shooting this 19 year old and her moms came up behind me and asked me if I had a license, that her father was gonna kick my ass (nevermind he hasn't been in the girls life) and what I was doing was immoral. Oh did I mention that the girl was fully dressed and we were just doing some headshots next to some really pretty flowers??? people are cooky. Jun 19 06 06:07 pm Link I do a zombie-walk toward them and shout "BRAINZZZZZ!" Jun 19 06 06:19 pm Link I usually shout It's about time!!! The gay porn segment of my shoot is just about to begin....where the hell have you been....get undressed QUICK!!! Yup ....that's usually worth a laugh...on my part. Jun 19 06 06:23 pm Link Michael Kirst wrote: I have to use that one!!!! Jun 19 06 06:25 pm Link UnoMundo Photography wrote: My tongue Jun 19 06 07:11 pm Link Star wrote: When and where is your next shoot? Jun 19 06 07:18 pm Link John Jebbia wrote: ...and pull your tongue through your neck to give you a Columbian necktie. Jun 19 06 07:31 pm Link I once did a shoot near some railroad tracks in a town in Northwestern Iowa.. maybe 500 people. There was a 2 lane highway nearby and a backroad with some cars passing by occasionally of course. A little while later the county sheriff pulls up and we engage in some small talk and all and he proceeds to tell us that someone passed by and called in to the county sheriff's office that we were "terrorists attempting to steal railroad crossing signs" It was funny.. even the sheriff was laughing about it  Jun 19 06 07:49 pm Link KatieK wrote: Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Dammit! ;^P Jun 19 06 08:11 pm Link John Jebbia wrote: Why so subtle? Jun 19 06 08:18 pm Link |
