My opinion is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickodim/sets/72157630096403410/

I'm all for it. People get too tight nowadays about their personal space... It's all becoming really stupid, what's the point in uploading all your photoes on FB and making them available and then ranting about someone taking a shot of you in public... Hope I make sense here... It's all a bit messed up. It may be a bit on the edge of the "moral law" but nevertheless it's fun, it's exciting, it makes sense shooting life on the streets, so why not? 

P.S. I'd love to end up in someone's flickr page on a nice street shot. 

I had my photo taken once, it was used as a advert for body building and made centerfold in Health and Efficiency with the caption, "You to could look like this, if your not careful"

I'm too ugly to worry about whether my face ends up on flickr or not

Unfortunately it still has

I like photography so can hardly complain .

The complications are only if you try to sell the images. That could get tricky nowadays without release forms .

I do most of my versions of those shots at events though rather than towns unless the events are in the towns.

I also think there is a bit of a moral dilemma . Would I upload a photograph of a person who has obvious distress or a possibly compromising shot ?

Probably not .

Would I if there was nothing I could do to prevent the outcome like a crashing plane or a sinking boat ? Yes , if only for the relevant authorities to look over as long as if I had first tried to help.

( Iknow that's not street photography but just giving an easy analogy )

Would I mind someone else doing that ?

Maybe not but I query their integrity simply because I would not be sharing similar values.

I think the main thing is if someone asked if would I mind not taking a photo of them I would oblige .

With cameras watching our every move how can anyone complain about the occasional snap being taken.

If the people or person is incidental to the shot - i.e. not the main focus, I don't see anything wrong with it. After all, they are there to be seen by anyone who happens to be looking! If they are to be the focus of the shot, it would seem reasonable to me to ask if they mind - I have done this for several publicity photographs for our town. No-one has ever objected, although some ask why I am taking the picture. Being told they are there to make the library look useful seems to be accepted as reasonable, for instance!

It is the Schlagermove Hamburg 2012    http://www.schlagermove.de/index.php?id=aftermove-party

Something very weird and can only be understood when you are German and drunk

It's sort of a revival of 60th and 70th German text pop songs (which were terrible during their time and are even worse today). But lots of younger people have adopted these songs and use them for some time travel to something with a few hippy elements and very strange cloths.

http://www.schlagermovebilder.de/     <-- mine are better of course

I have no problem with candid shots but once I was out with my camera and a woman I didn't know just came up to me and asked if I would take photos of her kids playing on the swings , I flatly refused put my camera away and moved on 

kevc

I am a big fan of street work - in fact it comprises a very large part of the stuff I take.  I find it strange that many complain so, when they are under surveillence ( particularly in the UK) every moment they are outside the house!

Fact is, the law allows for it and if one works within the law, then so be it.  If I found myself in someone elses image, as long as they had acted within the law, I was in a public place and they  had not invaded my private space to get the image, I would accept that.

I think it is very sad that we can no longer take pictures of small children - they are such natural poseurs! I don't particularly like children - they make far too much noise - but they do make very charming pictures.

I like street photo, I do a lot too and I don't care about intrusion (and also about law). But here in Marseille, it's a bit dangerous to take photos in some places, I've been already agressed for that, so I must be very careful if I do again, not about me but about the camera... not always easy...

I seem to be drifting more and more in so a combination of street portrait.  I love catching peoples expressions. (new lense on wish list)

Candid is good, as is the less candid.

Regarding people being hurt or injured - no I can't see me taking those, but if I was around when a major incident took place, I'd have no problems taking some pictures - but more of the event and the aftermath, not the victims (hope that makes sense)

Someone mentioned picrures of people living on the street. I'd love to have the bottle to do it, but I thik to take effective imagages you really have to be accepted and trusted by the poeple in the area that you're taking the pictures.

I'm still very much a beginner in this, but it's a wonderful source of subject matter.

taking shots of people that are clearly down on there luck for what ever reason i think should not happen. it is nothing to do with bottle as a lot of the people on here with a bridge camera could take a half decent one from a distance. after this months theme was annouced weeks ago i saw a homeless person sat with a begging note asking for money just sitting there not speaking. i am sad to say the thought of a good shot and winning this comp went straight thru my mind then i thought should i offer him a fiver to pose but i resisted went back and just gave him a couple of quid, before snapping these scenes you not to try and put yourself in there posistion. who knows

there are a couple of shots likes these in this months comp they tell a sad story of life on the streets fit the theme but personnaly i dont like them.

candid shots like the one steve posted are fine with me i do those when i see nothing else to snap away at.

if anyone wants to see my people watching blog here is the link

 http://www.myfinepix.co.uk/blog/138/459886

Along the lines of what Paul has said, life is not all smiles.  This chap in York,.... I wonder how he deals with day-to-day activities that we take for granted.

There for the grace etc etc.

I recently went to Ireland for a holiday - and just liked this shot of three locals watching the world go by - would this be deemed acceptable - its such a shame - but I try to respect people when taking shots in crowed areas.............

I have recently started taking more and more 'street photography' shots, and agree with a lot of the previous points regarding what should / shouldn't be taken.

I think though, that certain subject matters shouldn't just be a 'yes' or a 'no' as to whether you take them. I have no problem with taking photos of children, for example, but only because I now that I am not doing it for the wrong reasons.

One of my favourites that I have taken was at a out of town shopping village type thing in Somerset where a man was sitting outside a shop with his daughter waiting for his wife. Just as I took the photo, the daughter went to kiss her Dad. It was a lucky shot.............