How Do You Shoot?

[AcadieLibre]

I am very curious about where and how people shoot when there are other photographers in the same area you are shooting. This came to me the first time I went to a Photo meet up group and really came to me when I was at the Fashion show this past weekend.

First when I went to my only outing with the Meetup group I was surprised on how they all bunched together, followed and pretty much shoot the same shot as others at the same angle. What really seemed odd was at one point they were all huddled together, all shooting the very same thing. Was the first and last time I went out with the group. I was climbing breaker walls, going in 3 feet of snow, and other things to get myself photos that were from a different angle and perspective.

The Fashion show had a stage at the end of the runway for photographers to use, but again they were all huddled together and all shooting from the same angle. And many were using similar lenses.

Now I am someone who will try to get angles and shots other are not willing to go to the effort to get. I rather end up with crappy photos then good photos that everyone else has done. I am sure mine are not unique but for these times they appear to be. Over the 7 runway shows I shot each from a different perspective and moved around the area I chose to shoot from even though it was minimal movement. And each and every other photographer stayed in the same place and never moved.

When your at somewhere other photographers are at do you follow the crowd or do you try to get a perspective others seem not to want to put to effort into?

This is a photo of where they all stood, when the show started they all bunched together and there were maybe another 10 photographers added to the lot of them. I was the only photographer shooting from the angles I was shooting from. If I am going to do what everyone else is doing, why bother, although getting something unique is hard, is it not worth the effort to at least try?