Wed, June 1st, 2005 by btezra
Thnx to Rannie and his email this morning I am going to take part in World Photo Day 2005.
The premise of WPD2005 is simple, to expose and present the good, the bad, the beautiful, the diversity, the broad array of life that is our existence. Take 1 photo and upload it to the WPD2005 website, and link back to your own website where you can post as many photos as you wish to complete your presentation of this worldwide project. Seek out people engaging in everyday activities...snap them and then submit. Photos are to center around people, even though images of flowers, objects, buildings are great, but keep your focus on PEOPLE. IMO, it's a good way for those who have some hesitancy photographing people to get out there and have an actual excuse, reason, to shoot images of people interacting and carrying on their lives.
Rannie has set up an unofficial World Photo Day 2005 Flickr site as well. So feel free to contribute to both websites.
Get out there, get your lens in front of people for a day and expose all that catches your eye and interest.
June 1st, 2005 at 9:57 am
I've been waiting for this day for months. *chuckle* You're right...it will definitely make me try something new: taking photos of people.
June 1st, 2005 at 10:26 am
Let's go snap! I'm rather shy when it comes to photograph people on the streets, and don't think mentioning "today it's WPD" will help (first I would need to explain to many of them what it's that "internet thing") but sure it is an incentive
June 1st, 2005 at 6:59 pm
There's nothing quite like the thrill of photographing random strangers. I can't wait to see the postings everyone has for this tomorrow!
June 1st, 2005 at 9:15 pm
"I can't wait to see the postings everyone has for this tomorrow!"
what do you mean tomoro, it is already tomoro
I did my pics yesterday
June 2nd, 2005 at 9:31 am
Me too, it's been an awesome project to be involved in
June 4th, 2005 at 12:41 pm
It was alot of fun. Since I registered for the project very early on, and was part of the beta testing, there was lots of time to think about what I wanted to shoot. Unfortunately it was on a WORK DAY, so it involved trying to shoot something before work, during lunch hour, at work. I finally ended up with a handheld shot back in the pressroom of the newspaper where I work.
It's here:
http://photogroup1.com/displayimage.php?pid=839&fullsize=1
Here was my second choice, taken on my lunchour.
http://inabstentia.blogspot.com/2005/06/tattooed-rider.html
The World Photo Day site is a little frustrating because there doesn't seem to be a way to view all the photos in succession. There's just the "random" sort.
June 7th, 2005 at 11:57 am
It's a little OT but not really...
Yesterday, I got literally attacked by some guy on Union Square (NYC) 'cause he happened to be in one of my shot. He never tried to talk or anything, he just stood up and started calling me names... so I wasn't really inclined to have a conversation with him. His idea was that if he's sitting on Union Square, I'm not allowed to take a picture of this area 'cause he owns his image...
Now, this actually pretty rare, most people who don't want to be in the picture just turned around, hide their face (in New York, it happens much more often than anywhere else, or just move out of the way. I never force anyone to be in my shots of course! But that guy clearly had "issues" and was looking for a confrontation. On my side, I was in the shooting mood, not my fighting mood (and I was also carrying $3000 of equipment
so I let him insult me, erased the photo he was in (I couldn't resist taking another one of just him as he was going back to his sitting spot though ;).
After that I talked to a cop that was next block and asked him about the legal general guidelines, and it's pretty much what I already thought: unless it's inside a private property, no one can tell you what you're allowed to shoot or not, even a person. Of course I assume it gets more complicated depending on how you use this person's photo afterwards... But they can't stop you from taking photos in public places.
I'm gonna try googleing some more info on that and get to know exactly what the law says, but if anyone knows a good source of info about this, please share it! Thanks.