Translate one phrase into French, please
 

Try as I might, all the translation guides deal with "photograph" or "photo" as a noun - not a verb.

Can someone please give me the phrases for "May I take your picture, please?" and "just for me." (The latter so that I can avoid the subject thinking I'd be making money off his image on the Internet or Natl. Geographic...)

Merci!

Puis-je prendre votre photo?
Or Puis-je vous photographier?
Or Puis-je prendre une photo de vous?

Un photographe is a photographer. :-)

"just for me"
pour moi seulement
pour mon album photo personnel.

sorry I read too fast, I forgot this part!

I think the correct usage is 'faire une photo(graphe)'. As in 'Permettez que je fais votre photo(graphe)'.

no, it's prendre

<i>Puis-je prendre votre photo, s'il vous pla&icirc;t. C'est juste pour mon usage personnel.</i>

<i>Prendre</i> (&quot;take&quot;) is indeed the correct verb to use.

Anthony, you're right to add &quot;s'il vous plait&quot; I simply answered the question.

Easywalker, as I wrote a &quot;photographe&quot; is a photographer in French.

Faire is not incorrect, you can say &quot;puis- je faire une photo de vous, s'il vous plait?&quot; or &quot;permettez que je fasse....&quot;

Thank you for the clarification coco - I was taught to say 'faire' but I notice that all my French friends now say 'prendre'

But I'm still getting used to them saying 'podcaster' as well.

&gt;I was taught to say 'faire' but I notice that all my French friends now say 'prendre'.&lt;

Dang furriners.

How's a person supposed to try to get along if they keep changing the language?

((I))

Hi P,

I have found that if I point to my camera, aim it and say &quot;svp?&quot;, that I get along swimmingly.

((I))

The more spontaneous way to ask is to say:
&quot;Je peux prendre votre photo?&quot;

Puis-je is somewhat stilted and formal; you would use that to ask a visiting duchess.

Yes Kerouac but &quot;puis-je&quot; sounds so cute in an English speaker's mouth ;-)

I supposed everybody learnt to put the verb at the front in an interrogative sentence, this is why I used it this way. :-)

Yet another possibility, somewhere between &quot;puis-je...?&quot; and &quot;je peux...?&quot; in terms of formality, is &quot;Est-ce que je peux prendre votre photo?&quot;

Though if it were me, I'd say &quot;Ca (or cela) vous d&eacute;range si je vous prends en photo?&quot; - do you mind if I take your picture?

Well done hanl :-)
Now, since they're all correct, you will have to choose the one you can say better...

Yes, usually you will find that one phrase will flow out of your mouth better than the others. The others will become easier with a little wine.

If you feel compelled to avoid the inversion, <i>Est-ce que je peux prendre &hellip;</i> is a good compromise.

<i>Faire une photo</i> sounds a bit like you're digitally composing something from thin air or from fragments of existing photos. <i>Prendre</i> is much more common, and you can speak of <i>prise de vue</i> if you wish to use the professional terms of art.