People Portraits: The Volunteer

I took this shot during the leap day of this year 2012. I was trying a different approach on doing streets photography. Before I was really afraid of approaching interesting people and taking their portraits, but now I tried to change the game and really get to know them and asking their permission to have their picture taken rather than trying to take their shots from afar.

The story of this man: He is a volunteer from some group and they try to solicit from people passing by the Promenade in Sta.Monica and tell the story about their group about supporting homeless people. I said I don’t have any change to spare but he didn’t feel bad so It means that they don’t really push people to give their money unlike some dudes who are really persistent. Instead, I’m the one who asked a favor to have his picture taken and he willingly did it for me. He even suggested how he would pose and give him a side profile. Too bad I forget to ask if he has any email address so I could send him his photo.

So that’s it, don’t be afraid to take some portraits of random people around. It’s better rather than taking or some would say stealing their photos because you shoot it when they were unaware. You would be surprise on some people on how would they have their picture taken.