Candy for Candids!
June 4th, 2008 | Published in Featured, Misc, Photography | 13 Comments
I met up with Photojojo CEO Amit Gupta last week in San Francisco. Check out this video to hear how he suggests convincing strangers to pose for photos. And he wasn’t kidding! There’s even a write-up on his website with tips and instructions on how to best utilize “candy for candids”.
Apparently Amit has a history of bribing passers-by with candy. Having recently relocated back to the Bay Area from NYC, he’s now spreading his technique for impromptu portraiture to the left coast. Here is some photographic evidence of the Lollipop Photographer in action. And it looks like this movement may be catching on.
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Oh, and here’s a link to that song???????? I was referring to in the video. Somehow I don’t think these are the Lollipops Amit was referring to.
June 4th, 2008 at 4:48 pm (#)
Drop it like its hawt
Drop it like its hawt…
…Like a lollipop.
LOL! Yeah. Guessing that’s a different kind of lollipop. Nice use of the track, though.
Great idea. Thanks for the tip, Amit, and for sharing, Frederick. I subscribe to Photojojo, and I love it.
June 5th, 2008 at 5:35 am (#)
I will now have that song stuck in my head for a week. Well done, Frederick, well done.
June 5th, 2008 at 9:01 am (#)
I really love the idea… we already decided yesterday to this, just have to find a date where me and a buddy can go out to the streets of cologne and give it a try!
June 5th, 2008 at 9:25 am (#)
What people will do for a boy with a cute smile and a lollipop. Amazing!
June 5th, 2008 at 10:17 am (#)
Great idea. One I look forward to replicating here in DC in front of the White House…let’s hope they don’t throw me in jail. Great post thanks for sharing Fred.
June 5th, 2008 at 11:30 am (#)
@Chris Bergman, tell me ’bout it. That song is now burned into my frontal lobe.
June 6th, 2008 at 1:13 am (#)
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June 6th, 2008 at 10:58 am (#)
Lollipops for a picture? Hope all your shots are of adults!!!
If not, hope you can run fast.
June 8th, 2008 at 3:28 am (#)
[...] All Else Fails Give Candy! Fred Johnson has a great blog post with a video of him and Amit Gupta of Photojojo fame conjuring a plan to give candy for candid [...]
June 10th, 2008 at 8:43 am (#)
wow, how cool of an idea….I am going to steal this idea..okey dokey?
June 10th, 2008 at 9:49 am (#)
@Tony, I’m sure Amit won’t mind you borrowing the idea… but you should put your own twist on it somehow!
June 10th, 2008 at 11:21 pm (#)
[...] also: Frederick shot a video of me talking about the candy for portraits project I did with Bre last year, inspired by Youngna and [...]
June 15th, 2008 at 2:35 pm (#)
Haha. I am entertained.