Sometimes when shooting street photography (street photography), we are faced with an almost Shakespearean dilemma: ask someone to take a photo or just take the photo and move on? We risk being rejected and receiving many small humiliations from small-minded people, or we may prefer the safety and anonymity of “snapping and running.”

Unfortunately, there is no one right answer, for street photography or otherwise. As a photographer, you just have to learn to analyze the situation and use the best solution.

Let's look at the world from the surreal side. Our modern world is filled with video cameras and people with cameras. Walk down any street in a big city and you'll see dozens of surveillance cameras towering over you, some owned by private companies and some by the government. But these cameras quietly disappeared from view behind waterproof cases. After a while, people even forget about them.

When these cameras capture a person with a large camera, it sometimes causes an overreaction from the quirky people in front of the monitors and from the bored security guards. Almost every street photographer has at least one story about being confronted by angry security guards or police officers.

Your best defense in such a situation will be a smile, a calm demeanor, and a firm understanding that you know your rights. This is wise to keep in mind because history is full of sad stories where some people have died. You need to be armed with good inner guidance about when to stand your ground and when to just walk away.

When it comes to photographing people in public places, sometimes it's best to take a quick shot and move on. The less time you spend taking a photo, the less suspicious you will appear and the less irritated you will see in people's eyes. If you find a topic that really intrigues you, just go up and ask the person for permission to take a photo. You'll be surprised how many times people will say yes, or agree to the photo, but with some minor restrictions. If you asked 10 random people on the street, probably 80 percent would not mind taking a photo, and the remaining 20 percent would politely refuse to cooperate.

Abandoning a person is certainly not a personal belief. Some people are in a hurry or are simply late, and some were startled by such a question. The world is full of scammers and suspicions, unfortunately, nothing can be done about it. However, despite all this, you will be amazed at how some people will say yes.

Don't be afraid to ask, as this gives you the opportunity to interact with complete strangers. You'll be able to make new friends, expand your social network, and meet people, even if it's just for a while. For many, those positive interactions are worth more than a few missed frames from people who said no, thank you.

Permission

Permission

noun, With., used compare often

Morphology: (no) what? permissions, what? permission, (see) what? permission, how? permission, about what? about permission; pl. What? permissions, (no) what? permits, what? permits, (see) what? permissions, how? permits, about what? about permits

1. Permission is called someone's consent, permission to do something.

Prior permission. | Obtain parental permission for marriage. | Ask permission to call. | To do something without permission or with someone else's permission.

2. Permission is an official document that gives someone the right to do something.

Grant permission to sell something. | Written permission. | Temporary, permanent permit. | Permission to enter the country. | Work permit.

3. If someone prefaces their actions with the phrase With your permission, then this means that this person is politely warning someone of his intention to do something.

4. Permission is called the found answer to something, the final favorable solution to a problem, etc.

Resolution of contradictions, dilemmas. | Find a solution to all doubts. | Wait for your fate to be resolved. | The issue requires immediate resolution.

5. Permission is called a peaceful, successful ending to any complex matter or conflict.

Dispute resolution before court. | Direct efforts to resolve the conflict.

6. In optics, in information technology resolution is the ability of a technical device to distinguish, capture, reproduce any image.

Change monitor resolution. | The photo lens has high resolution.

Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language by Dmitriev. D. V. Dmitriev. 2003.

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Permission: Permission to do something is the antonym of the word “prohibition.” Permission to do something requested, including a document confirming it; Work permit; Temporary residence permit; Settlement permit; Resolution... Wikipedia

PERMISSION, permissions, cf. 1. units only Action under Ch. allow allow. Resolve a difficult technical issue. Resolution of all doubts. Conflict resolution. Contact someone to resolve the issue. Permission… … Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary

See agreement... Dictionary of Russian synonyms and similar expressions. under. ed. N. Abramova, M.: Russian Dictionaries, 1999. permission permission, admission, sanction; solution; authorization, power of attorney, license, approval; clarity,... ... Synonym dictionary

permission- Spatial frequency of the location of dot image elements of a discrete structure, embedded in the subsystems of digital printing equipment, which is usually determined: a) FOR THE PRINTING MECHANISM (mechanical resolution) b) FOR SOFTWARE... ... Technical Translator's Guide

The smallest change in an analog signal that is detected by a device performing analog-to-discrete conversion. See also: Analog discrete conversions Financial Dictionary Finam... Financial Dictionary

permission- (Resolution) The most important characteristic of any discrete output device (monitor, printer, phototypesetting machine, etc.) is the size of the raster element [a two-dimensional array of pixels]. Usually expressed in dots per inch and... ... Font terminology

permission- PERMISSION, permission, book. sanction, obsolete permission, obsolete permission, colloquial, joking. blessing, colloquial reduction permission ALLOW/ALLOW, give/give, allow/permit, book., nonsense. and owls authorize, obsolete... ... Dictionary-thesaurus of synonyms of Russian speech

PERMISSION, I, Wed. 1. see allow, xia. 2. The right to do anything, as well as a document certifying such a right. Get r. to work in archives. Ask for permission (to be allowed). R. for shooting wild boars. 3. Degree of distinctiveness... ... Ozhegov's Explanatory Dictionary

An act of consent issued in written or oral form by the subject of management, a state licensing authority that has the appropriate right. Dictionary of business terms. Akademik.ru. 2001... Dictionary of business terms

PERMISSION- a document granting the right to commit a crime. actions, for example, to drive a vehicle through the territory of a foreign state. R. can be one-time, multiple, special, multilateral... Legal encyclopedia

Permission- * advanced * resolution degree of determination (description) of molecular details on the physical map of DNA, which is ranked from low to high... Genetics. encyclopedic Dictionary

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We live in a primitive economy that does not require high quality human capital. This contradiction already existed in the USSR, where universities graduated a large number of highly educated people. But only a small part of them were involved in scientific developments and involved in the emergence of some breakthrough technologies.

And in post-Soviet Russia this situation has become completely outrageous. And not only that, there are a lot of smart people with a good education who have nowhere to go. Other newly minted economists, financiers, and lawyers simply cannot be hired. Because, in addition to “educational overproduction,” we are often faced with low-quality production. It is enough to mention the astronomical number of diplomas issued after correspondence courses.

It is not surprising that many people wonder: is higher education really that good?

But, firstly, we must remember that over the past 150 years, Russia has regularly supplied the world with high-quality human capital, educated here. And perhaps we should not limit ourselves solely to the needs of our country and our economy.

And secondly, universities, generally speaking, produce three products: human capital; a set of professions that a nation, a country and, as it turns out, the whole world live by; finally - behavioral values.

The main product of higher education over the past quarter century has been the middle class. After all, belonging to it is largely a matter of self-identification. People who consider themselves to be middle class know that fitness is useful, but they should not drink methylated spirits. They know what deposits and savings instruments are in general, and sometimes they can even be responsible for their finances. They have a fundamentally different attitude to the quality of life, and thus they radically change the nature of demand in the country.

Paradox! The massive spread of universities produced a negative result in terms of economic supply and a positive result in terms of social supply. But ultimately, through demand, it also affects the economy.

By the way, in this regard we are very similar to South Korea. There, too, there is clearly no need for as many specialists as are currently being produced. But they remade the consciousness of the nation, which until recently was mostly peasant.

However, Koreans know what they want to achieve from education. We don’t have such an understanding. Let's take the story of global university rankings. It seems like a good idea to demonstrate our global competitiveness in this area.

For example, the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University shares national leadership with the Higher School of Economics in the basic positions of the QS 2016 world ranking. At the same time, HSE, for example, is ahead in terms of the number of publications, and we are ahead in terms of graduates and academic reputation. And this does not prevent the ministry from reducing the number of budget places for us.

They say that you are economists, and therefore you can easily replace a state employee with a contract employee. But this logic is deeply flawed, because then we will not be able to produce a good world-class specialist.

Russia is a country with Latin American social gaps. And the budget space allows us to overcome them, at least in education. It leaves a chance for a gifted young man from the outback and from a low-income family, having gained the necessary points on the Unified State Exam, to come to us and become a star. One that will be in demand not only here, but also at Princeton or Stanford, as often happened with graduates of the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University.

The ministry operates on the principle of “every sister’s earrings” - so that governors don’t get too offended and don’t think that only their universities are being closed, merged or deprived of state funding.

Although even at the quota level it is clear how different federal and regional approaches to the value of education are. When we tried to bring the enrollment for certain specialties in line with requests from the localities, it turned out that we had to graduate only 200 “budget” philosophers. Because no region says it needs philosophers.

In the same way, no department of economics - and not just the regional one - will ever pay for the training of young people to become structural linguists. They are not mentioned in the layouts of demand from the personnel departments of enterprises and firms. But structural linguists from Moscow State University became the pride of many new companies created in the 90s.

The ability to teach a wide variety of professions, regardless of their apparent applied value, is perhaps the best indicator of a country’s positioning in the global education market, its competitive feature. And in order to preserve it and at the same time satisfy the current needs of employers, it is enough to introduce a ranking of diplomas and universities. When it will be seen that this person has received a world-class education. This one is national. And this one learned a little and expanded his horizons.

If such a difference is clearly formalized and made visible, there will be no need to close universities en masse. It is enough to abolish the correspondence form of education as trading for little money in diplomas that are not formally different from ordinary ones - with a colossal actual difference. And from 2017 this will most likely be done.

Distance courses from leading universities should take their place, and although they are very difficult to do, they must be done. Otherwise, we will again build a closed elitist system, deliberately depriving children from poor families living on the periphery of the opportunity to improve their educational level.

Of course, some problems related to the accessibility and effectiveness of education are solved with the help of the Unified State Exam. And some, on the contrary, are being created. I never thought there would be two types of applicants. Some people know what Newton's binomial is, but they don't know who Sir Isaac Newton is. And others know who Newton is, but do not know what a binomial is. Because in high school, every student now decides this way: “I’m taking this Unified State Exam, other subjects aside.” And as a result, he loses orientation in space. He masters formulas, but does not feel that he is running headlong into the wall with them, or he sees this world, but does not know how to express it, how to arrange it.

The breadth of horizons is lost. And, as a result, we get people who are not able and not ready to apply the acquired knowledge to their own business, and not to someone else’s. At best, they will choose between a large and a medium-sized company, between the employer that pays more and the one that gives more freedom. Who will become an entrepreneur? Not the ones they sell near the metro, but the ones that actually create an innovative economy?

Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin told me a wonderful phrase 7-8 years ago: “Sasha, you can do a lot in Russia if you don’t ask permission.”

This is, perhaps, the main applied task of the national education system - to “produce” smart and knowledgeable people who will not ask permission.