I am a quite shy person ad often, when i find an interesting composition-subject (like a person doing something, a goup of people in a nice setting etc), i struggle to capture it because i feel like i’m being rude taking pictures without their approval, but at the same time i think that, by asking them, the spontaneity of the shot would be compromised. What’s your take about it?
I shoot first and ask questions later. thinking about this reminds me of the time i saw someone interesting on a bus pre-covid during one of the summer wildfires California has been having. Bright pink hair with a half face respirator looking down at a cell phone. I didn’t have my camera on me so snapped a quick shot on my cell phone. I always have flash off but for some reason it went off this time. She looked up and we made eye contact for a second. Was slightly awkward the rest of the bus ride. I think I felt weirder about it because I was behind a cell phone instead of a dslr.