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As a street photographer you love to capture faces, emotions, details and random people around you ..Egyptians hate to be photographed by strangers' lenses..this may involve you in problems with the people you shoot.
Yes, they have the right to refuse being photographed, but about 92% of people in Egypt -especially women- hate to be photographed randomly by an anonymous, even if the shoot is amazing, they may force you to delete the photo..
Try to be nice to people you photograph, if they requested to delete the photo you took of them, do it kindly and move on.
2) Don't mind their weird looks!
people around will look at you in a very uncomfortable way when you stop to capture a photo of a building, street, workshop, kid, pet, or any other subjects..so don't mind their looks and keep doing what you are doing.
3) Be ready for any cop.
You will find a cop in almost every single place you go ,who will say "Sorry, Photography is not allowed here!" despite the fact that both of you know that it's not illegal!
you can solve this problem easily by giving him 10-20 Pounds..that's what he really wants, but he says it in another way!
Sure it's not fair to pay him to photograph public property!..bearing in mind that this situation will happen almost in every place you go to take some pictures !
you can solve this problem easily by giving him 10-20 Pounds..that's what he really wants, but he says it in another way!
Sure it's not fair to pay him to photograph public property!..bearing in mind that this situation will happen almost in every place you go to take some pictures !
4) Your camera may be stolen from you.
Yes, It happens constantly, anybody might steal your camera and run, so take care!
5) It's frustrating but if a policeman suspects you, he could delete all the photos on your camera.
Yes, It happens constantly, anybody might steal your camera and run, so take care!
5) It's frustrating but if a policeman suspects you, he could delete all the photos on your camera.
claiming that he is "protecting" national security and you can't do anything about this unfortunately.
6) 90% of people think you are a spy or a Mossad agent.
And you are taking photos of Egypt to facilitate for them their next explosion mission..not kidding by the way!
And you are taking photos of Egypt to facilitate for them their next explosion mission..not kidding by the way!
7) It's too crowded everywhere..All the time!
You will not feel comfortable during the shooting session , you will feel like "capture&run" ... you may miss amazing scenes just because of the crowd, however, you can take advantage of this crowd, and capture awesome pictures.
You will not feel comfortable during the shooting session , you will feel like "capture&run" ... you may miss amazing scenes just because of the crowd, however, you can take advantage of this crowd, and capture awesome pictures.
8) Don't be surprised if you took a photograph of a man and found him asking you to pay him in return!
Most Egyptians don't do anything for free!
9) Forget about using your photography equipment in the street.
Using reflector, tripod, or any other equipment in the Egyptian street is a big risk, for the reasons I mentioned before specially no.4&no.6
Most Egyptians don't do anything for free!
9) Forget about using your photography equipment in the street.
Using reflector, tripod, or any other equipment in the Egyptian street is a big risk, for the reasons I mentioned before specially no.4&no.6
10) Your photos are worthless.
This might be shocking but it's true..especially after that photography has become
so common in Egypt, and every one now owns a camera..
You might capture a very beautiful shoot,and edit it with very simple retouches, this photo -from the Egyptian audience's prospective- might be shit compared to a very poor shoot that's has been edited and the photographer manipulated with it dramatically using many photo editing programs that the original photo couldn't be recognized.
You might capture a very beautiful shoot,and edit it with very simple retouches, this photo -from the Egyptian audience's prospective- might be shit compared to a very poor shoot that's has been edited and the photographer manipulated with it dramatically using many photo editing programs that the original photo couldn't be recognized.
Egyptian streets are full of life, emotions, and every moment is worth to be captured, but there must be some regulations to save the photographers' rights.
Note: This article is not about all Egyptians of course but it's highlighting most of them.
