{"id":4237,"date":"2012-10-15T19:49:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T11:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.my\/?p=4237"},"modified":"2013-02-28T11:13:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T03:13:43","slug":"engage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/engage\/","title":{"rendered":"Engage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many shutterbugs go to a street event acting like a stalker or paparazzi. Armed with a long lens, they mistakenly believe that ambushed shots of startled people are candids. They&#8217;re not. You are not covering a war zone or disaster area.<\/p>\n<p>I prefer to do street photography in a non-predatory manner. I talk to people. By engaging your subjects, they feel more at ease when you photograph them. If someone is not comfortable, you move on. Don&#8217;t steal and publish a shot knowing that the person is not willing. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/nine-emperor-gods-festival-2012\/\">Nine Emperor Gods Festival<\/a> is a happy occasion and your pictures should reflect that.<\/p>\n<p>This roast chestnut (buah berangan) hawker was telling me how he got kicked out of Chinatown and how he now survives by selling his stuff once a year to regulars. He was so engrossed with his story that he didn&#8217;t even pause to see the spectacular dragon prancing behind. You can see the enthusiasm in his eyes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/chestnut_man.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4238\" title=\"Engage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/chestnut_man.jpg\" alt=\"Engage\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/chestnut_man.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/chestnut_man-113x113.jpg 113w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/chestnut_man-169x169.jpg 169w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/chestnut_man-450x450.jpg 450w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/chestnut_man-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many shutterbugs go to a street event acting like a stalker or paparazzi&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/engage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377,378,1339,563,8,519,9],"tags":[204,1009,203,114,511,64,250],"class_list":["post-4237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-festivals","category-events","category-food-2","category-instagram","category-life","category-omd","category-photography","tag-ampang","tag-hawker","tag-nine-emperor-gods","tag-olympus","tag-om-d","tag-street","tag-street-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6054,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions\/6054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}