Photographing people in the public, reactions

Originally Posted by Jim Bryant

HAHAHAH, that worked for me once in Panama. I was out in the rain forest taking pictures and a couple of guys were planning on robbing me by using a machette until I pulled up my shirt to flash them a Glock 21G. They sort of disappeared back into the jungle. The Smithsonian scientists I was working for just shock their heads.

LOL! Holy shit Jim! While I have my CCW permit I really doubt I'd have the balls to actually do it! LOL

Then again, if threatened like you were, you had to do what you had to do!

Is there anything you haven't been apart of? Were you there during the building of the panama canal? How about the signing of the Declaration of Independence? The first cepholopod crawling out of the primordial ooze? Get a snazzy shot of that?

[Jim Bryant]

Originally Posted by maxharvard

LOL! Holy shit Jim! While I have my CCW permit I really doubt I'd have the balls to actually do it! LOL

Then again, if threatened like you were, you had to do what you had to do!

Is there anything you haven't been apart of? Were you there during the building of the panama canal? How about the signing of the Declaration of Independence? The first cepholopod crawling out of the primordial ooze? Get a snazzy shot of that?

Hahaha......that's what happens when you travel to over 38 countries, some legally and some not (with the Navy). Gotta be prepared and get back alive. BTW, I'm only 57 and not that old, but I'm starting to feel it from time to time.

[freybear3]

Originally Posted by Jim Bryant

Hahaha......that's what happens when you travel to over 38 countries, some legally and some not (with the Navy). Gotta be prepared and get back alive. BTW, I'm only 57 and not that old, but I'm starting to feel it from time to time.

Did you photograph for the Navy?

[Quo Fan]

Never had a problem while shooting, but yesterday the group ride (bicycle) I was on were confronted by a motorist that didn't understand that we (cyclists) have the same rights to the road as motorists.

I happen to hold a fourth dan in Shaolin Kempo.

[spazoid1965]

Originally Posted by AlphaBjerke

Spazoid, I have often wondered about this item; is the loss of quality apparent?

There is a just a little quality loss with mine. It would probally be a little more with the really chaep ones. The main 2 problems are viginetting with standard or wide angle lenses, and trying to keep the thing facing the right direction while you focus.

[Jim Bryant]

Originally Posted by freybear3

Did you photograph for the Navy?

Yes I did, I was in the tail end of the Vietnam war, through the Iraq-Iranian war, Iranian hostage crisis and got out right before our police work in Lebanon. I was in the Middle East during the early 1980's, that's why I had to undergo the SERE training.

[candleman]

good grief Jim.. haha.. the term "shoot" must have a whole different meaning to you.

[Jim Bryant]

Hey........been shot at, but never hit. It's amazing on just how small you can make you fit behind a camera. But, I was never stupid and knew just when to stick my head up to take a picture. Now a days with these dDLR's all you have to do is stick your camera and arm from around the corner of a building or raise it over your head and without even looking you've got a decent picture.

Originally Posted by Jim Bryant

Now a days with these dDLR's all you have to do is stick your camera and arm from around the corner of a building or raise it over your head and without even looking you've got a decent picture.

Hey! HEY!

Have you been reading my "How to be a professional Photog" blog?

[Jim Bryant]

Now, you know why I call them PhD cameras (Press here Dummy).