Awkward photos situation
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Act like your texting, snap a photo. Turn off flash and phone audio.
Or sit in the dining room, take the photo using zoom.
Or sit in the dining room, take the photo using zoom.
I've gotten pretty adept at taking clandestine pictures.... I once got a picture of a cashier at a distance of two feet while she was looking right at me..... The trick is to have some other innocuous reason for playing with your phone..... Try something like this: Have your phone in your hand, with the screen pointed at your body, all sounds silenced, and the camera already open. Then, look annoyed and look at the phone. As you bring it up, make sure that it focuses on your target briefly and snap the picture. Then, pretend like you are either texting or declining a call. You can even mutter something like, "I told her not to call me this afternoon," if you think you need a little more cover..... If you are taking a picture of an inanimate object, walk past it playing with your phone - texting perhaps. Then, stop right next to the object so that you can "text" more intensely. This will buy you a few seconds to snap a quick picture before continuing to walk and text.
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@foodluvr wrote:
Act like your texting, snap a photo. Turn off flash and phone audio.
Or sit in the dining room, take the photo using zoom.
The two locations in my area have the register and the dining area on opposite corners of the restaurant, so they need to be taken right in front of the targets.
I need to master the art of taking a photo without looking at the viewfinder
Look at the screen with the phone at about a 45 degree angle, as if texting, and take the picture. Not big deaal. Of course, if you are using a camera instead of a smartphone. that MAY be obvious.
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Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
@walesmaven wrote:
.... Of course, if you are using a camera instead of a smartphone. that MAY be obvious.
Are you suggesting that, using my Rosewood Wista Field-45DX is not the ideal tool for this?
Hard work builds character and homework is good for your soul.
I HATE having to take pictures like that.
One trick that worked for me was I put the camera in my shirt pocket with the lens peeking out the top and recorded video. Then i went to a table and took a screenshot from the video and used that as my picture. Its taking a risk that it wont be framed properly but since I reviewed it I could confirm before leaving.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/05/2020 10:30PM by jgoodwin.
One trick that worked for me was I put the camera in my shirt pocket with the lens peeking out the top and recorded video. Then i went to a table and took a screenshot from the video and used that as my picture. Its taking a risk that it wont be framed properly but since I reviewed it I could confirm before leaving.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/05/2020 10:30PM by jgoodwin.
MFJ, I am suggesting that using anything where you need to look through a view-finder will make you VERY obvious.
Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
Some phones, like the iPhone, allow you to use a volume button instead of the shutter button to take a photo. But yes, I agree, those photos are the most awkward.
Even if I put my large black sheet over myself as I focus the camera? That way they can't see me.......
@walesmaven wrote:
MFJ, I am suggesting that using anything where you need to look through a view-finder will make you VERY obvious.
Hard work builds character and homework is good for your soul.
I could also pretend I am blind and need to raise my phone to my face to read messages, when in fact, I'm taking a photo.
The one time I needed a photo of the associate he thankfully was standing next to a poster advertising some service that I just HAD to take a photo of to show someone. And I loudly explained to associate that was why I was using MY Rosewood Wista Field-45DX .
Sometimes I pretend I am super vain (jk! I pretend I have something in my eye) and look super focused on the screen and then take the picture. I'm not sure if this is the one from ACL but by the time you take your 9th picture (or whatever the requirements were), I feel like it's not a secret anymore. At that point I just smile and go about my business and then never do the shop again.
Pretend you're also buying for someone who's not there and they wanted more info of the place
That is what I tell them when I take pictures of menus and the layout of a place. I am with the advance for the security team of so and so and we need to check it out.
@atan134340 wrote:
Pretend you're also buying for someone who's not there and they wanted more info of the place
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