April 29, 2012 | Lady is Irritated with me

i was testing out my 28mm nikkor f3.5 lens for the first time this day.  i had to get very close to make this photo, and this irritated the lady.  she told me ‘i had no right’ to take the photo.  i mentioned this in a post yesterday, but i then later edited my post because i had not liked what i had written; sorry if you got it in your email.  anyways, i’m rather disconnected from people objections to having their photo taken.  it seems like the closer you go, the more likely they will be irritated, or happy, it just depends person to person, and there is no way to tell what will happen.  my cameras all have an audible shutter noise, so, when i’m close they know it when their photo is snapped.  i went to town on this in photoshop.  the sidewalk walk really really reflective, so i burnt it, and the grass too, because the brightness was rather distracting from the subject.  i use my light meter like a portrait photographer would so my subject is properly exposed, but the rest of the scene is not necessarily correctly exposed.