I got called STREET PHOTOGRAPHY CHEATER! Are you one?

I got called a street photography cheater. Let me explain the charge.

I see more photographs of people with their heads buried in their cell phones than I see naturally found candid shots. And the argument goes, shooting people while their head is buried in a phone, completely unconscious of you, that's fish in a barrel. That's not hunting. That's harvesting.

I don't mind a little eye contact in a street photo. But a true candid, where no one knows you're there, those are magical. And those are getting rare, because the phone gives every subject a place to hide in plain sight.

So is catching people on their cell phones cheating at street photography? I genuinely want your thoughts on this one, because I shoot those frames too, and then I feel a little dirty about how easy they were.

Comments. Confess or defend.

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