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How does it interrupt you for someone else to be taking a photo of themselves?

GameOfFrowns 4y ago
>How does it interrupt you for someone else to be taking a photo of themselves? Blocking one's path for once, even more so with telescope sticks and of course taking pictures with one in the background without consent. I live near one such touristic area where there's a rather narrow sidewalk. In the summer it is like running the gauntlet. I'm too often too nice by first letting people finish their posing and taking pictures, only that frequently even 5 selfies seem not enough because they didn't get that perfect angle right for the 'insta'.
- chrisseaton 4y ago
  They’ve got as much right to be there as you do! > taking pictures with one in the background without consent They don’t need your consent!
  - MichaelCollins 4y ago
    How to make people like you: "The law doesn't forbid me from doing this to you!" Right up there with "I'm not touching you!"
    - thaumasiotes 4y ago
      Well, yes. I'm not touching you right now. And if you're offended by that, you are being egregiously unreasonable. Exactly the same is true of the picture-taking "concern".
    - ghaff 4y ago
      It's one thing to shove a camera in someone's face. It's another for people to have any reasonable expectation of not getting into even the background of a photo when walking down a city street or in some other busy place.
    - chrisseaton 4y ago
      You’re not ‘doing’ anything to someone by taking a photo in public with them in the background. You don’t have reasonable expectations and it’s fine for reasonable people to disregard them.
  - alistairSH 4y ago
    They’ve got as much right to be there as you do! Can do vs Should do. Yes, you can stand in the middle of a narrow path and use a selfie stick to take photos. No, you shouldn't do that if it inconveniences everybody around you. Doing so anyways makes you a self-centered dickhead.
MichaelCollins 4y ago
Does it interrupt the photographer when I pay them no mind and walk in front of them? Their muttered curses say yes. Therefore, photographers interrupt everybody else in the area who, unlike me, feel compelled by some social convention to give photographers a cone of exclusion in front of the camera.
- hef19898 4y ago
  Politeness goes both ways, photographers should try to be as discreet as possible. And others should pay some attention to what others do around them, including photographers.
  - throwaway675309 4y ago
    Calling them photographers is being generous and this is not the place for your personal photo shoot. Sorry but after the 200th time of trying to walk down a crowded street in New York and waiting for someone to finish taking a group selfie, I'm done with that.
    - loriverkutya 4y ago
      They should pretend it’s a city: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretend_It's_a_City https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretend_It's_a_City
mithr 4y ago
Multiple examples from the article: > Making TikTok by playing loud music creates a nuisance for pilgrims from all over the world who come to the birthplace of Gautama Buddha > Over recent months, there have been reports of TikTok creators storming farms and trampling crops, and even causing traffic jams while shooting. Chamomile farmers in Morang in eastern Nepal were forced to harvest their crop early, as some TikTokers trampled on their crop. In Kathmandu, a popular street that was decorated with colorful umbrellas to attract tourists after the Covid-19 slump went viral on TikTok, and authorities were forced to shut it down as creators flocked to the area, leading to traffic congestion.
- chrisseaton 4y ago
  Was aimed at the person I was replying to about people simply taking selfies.
  - akudha 4y ago
    On New Year’s Eve at NYC, the streets are jam packed. There is barely any space to move. Everyone around you has their camera out, trying to take photos of the ball drop. The only thing you can see are flashes. Then you’d curse yourself for waiting for hours in the cold, only to see flashes. On a normal day in NYC tourist areas, it is common for tourists (especially younger women) to take pictures every few feet. Initially you’d be polite and not walk into their frame, but this gets old super quick. You’re irritated, they’re irritated (because you didn’t pause for their dumb photo shoot)… ruins everyone’s day. All you wanted was to walk uninterrupted. I used to live and work in upper east side. Took me a while to get used to it
ghaff 4y ago
For me, I try to be polite and not get in the way of someone trying to take a picture of someone on a bridge across a sidewalk for example. But it can get to the point where I'm just rude and pretend I don't see them. At least selfie sticks seem to have become less common--probably because smartphones are often available with wider lenses today.
yardstick 4y ago
I used to work down the road from a big tourist attraction in London. Every lunch hour, I’d need to walk past a mass of people congregating outside the building taking photos, among other things (like forming a circle around a busker, taking up even more space). I could try wait for a dozen people to finish taking photos (and it’s never just one photo, selfie or otherwise). Or, after a couple weeks of this, I just stopped caring and would walk past them irrespective of interrupting someones shot. Now if they made an effort to leave an easily navigable gap behind the photographer so I could walk past without interrupting, sure, I did that. Most didn’t. There’s still a lingering uncomfortability knowing I might be recorded forever in someone’s social media feed or whatever they do with the photos. Yes I know, it’s a public space and all.

>How does it interrupt you for someone else to be taking a photo of themselves? Blocking one's path for once, even more so with telescope sticks and of course taking pictures with one in the background without consent. I live near one such touristic area where there's a rather narrow sidewalk. In the summer it is like running the gauntlet. I'm too often too nice by first letting people finish their posing and taking pictures, only that frequently even 5 selfies seem not enough because they didn't get that perfect angle right for the 'insta'.

chrisseaton 4y ago
They’ve got as much right to be there as you do! > taking pictures with one in the background without consent They don’t need your consent!
- MichaelCollins 4y ago
  How to make people like you: "The law doesn't forbid me from doing this to you!" Right up there with "I'm not touching you!"
  - thaumasiotes 4y ago
    Well, yes. I'm not touching you right now. And if you're offended by that, you are being egregiously unreasonable. Exactly the same is true of the picture-taking "concern".
  - ghaff 4y ago
    It's one thing to shove a camera in someone's face. It's another for people to have any reasonable expectation of not getting into even the background of a photo when walking down a city street or in some other busy place.
  - chrisseaton 4y ago
    You’re not ‘doing’ anything to someone by taking a photo in public with them in the background. You don’t have reasonable expectations and it’s fine for reasonable people to disregard them.
- alistairSH 4y ago
  They’ve got as much right to be there as you do! Can do vs Should do. Yes, you can stand in the middle of a narrow path and use a selfie stick to take photos. No, you shouldn't do that if it inconveniences everybody around you. Doing so anyways makes you a self-centered dickhead.

MichaelCollins 4y ago

Does it interrupt the photographer when I pay them no mind and walk in front of them? Their muttered curses say yes. Therefore, photographers interrupt everybody else in the area who, unlike me, feel compelled by some social convention to give photographers a cone of exclusion in front of the camera.

hef19898 4y ago
Politeness goes both ways, photographers should try to be as discreet as possible. And others should pay some attention to what others do around them, including photographers.
- throwaway675309 4y ago
  Calling them photographers is being generous and this is not the place for your personal photo shoot. Sorry but after the 200th time of trying to walk down a crowded street in New York and waiting for someone to finish taking a group selfie, I'm done with that.
  - loriverkutya 4y ago
    They should pretend it’s a city: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretend_It's_a_City https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretend_It's_a_City

mithr 4y ago

Multiple examples from the article: > Making TikTok by playing loud music creates a nuisance for pilgrims from all over the world who come to the birthplace of Gautama Buddha > Over recent months, there have been reports of TikTok creators storming farms and trampling crops, and even causing traffic jams while shooting. Chamomile farmers in Morang in eastern Nepal were forced to harvest their crop early, as some TikTokers trampled on their crop. In Kathmandu, a popular street that was decorated with colorful umbrellas to attract tourists after the Covid-19 slump went viral on TikTok, and authorities were forced to shut it down as creators flocked to the area, leading to traffic congestion.

chrisseaton 4y ago
Was aimed at the person I was replying to about people simply taking selfies.
- akudha 4y ago
  On New Year’s Eve at NYC, the streets are jam packed. There is barely any space to move. Everyone around you has their camera out, trying to take photos of the ball drop. The only thing you can see are flashes. Then you’d curse yourself for waiting for hours in the cold, only to see flashes. On a normal day in NYC tourist areas, it is common for tourists (especially younger women) to take pictures every few feet. Initially you’d be polite and not walk into their frame, but this gets old super quick. You’re irritated, they’re irritated (because you didn’t pause for their dumb photo shoot)… ruins everyone’s day. All you wanted was to walk uninterrupted. I used to live and work in upper east side. Took me a while to get used to it

ghaff 4y ago

For me, I try to be polite and not get in the way of someone trying to take a picture of someone on a bridge across a sidewalk for example. But it can get to the point where I'm just rude and pretend I don't see them. At least selfie sticks seem to have become less common--probably because smartphones are often available with wider lenses today.

yardstick 4y ago

I used to work down the road from a big tourist attraction in London. Every lunch hour, I’d need to walk past a mass of people congregating outside the building taking photos, among other things (like forming a circle around a busker, taking up even more space). I could try wait for a dozen people to finish taking photos (and it’s never just one photo, selfie or otherwise). Or, after a couple weeks of this, I just stopped caring and would walk past them irrespective of interrupting someones shot. Now if they made an effort to leave an easily navigable gap behind the photographer so I could walk past without interrupting, sure, I did that. Most didn’t. There’s still a lingering uncomfortability knowing I might be recorded forever in someone’s social media feed or whatever they do with the photos. Yes I know, it’s a public space and all.