Accepting You Will Get Dirty Looks - Street Photography

This man is a fairly well-known news reporter in South Australia. 

I saw him and his camera crew making some footage in Adelaide and thought I could get a great shot.

I remember walking around so I was facing them, but not so I was interrupting them. The camera man was actually swinging his camera around, I think to establish the path he would follow when panning around. Anyway, I'm not knowledgeable about these things.

I snapped this photograph. I'm not sure it's clear from this image, but this man was not happy - really not happy. I would suggest "disgusted" would describe how he felt with my photographing him. A man who makes a living in front of a camera to react like that was quite odd. I smiled and walked away quickly. 

I know people in public life deserve a private life, I wouldn't suggest anything different. However, he was working, not buying milk and bread on a day off, dressed in his dressing gown and slippers. In fact, he was stopping people on their days off, interrupting their lives - for a moment - to interview / record them for TV. 

So I found his reaction quite odd.

Getting dirty looks when photographing strangers can be expected though. But so can looks of surprise, joy and a myriad of other expressions. That's partly why street photography is so fascinating.