A while ago I made a post on hear asking if it was OK to post pictures of people in street photography, the general consensus was yes and its legal in England.

For some context I’m building a portfolio for uni and wanted to show off all my images.

Well my frend mentioned today it was super creepy and run as I didn’t have their consent.

I’m torn, it was in a public place, its completely legal, you can’t really tell who thay are in most of them,

Idk, I feel super bad, but I don’t wanna delete them as they really add to my uni application. All photos have some people in If you’re taking street photography.

What should I do?

  • X4dow@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Also on how protective parents are of their kids potentially be in a photos background cuz “pedos” but then happily pose with their kids for 1st page on local newspaper giving away loo rolls during covid

    Last time I checked pedos can buy newspapers

    • eddiewachowski@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Or better yet, they put images of their children in the bath on their socials because “that’s different”

    • digiplay@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Parents need to worry about the person with a 600mm telephoto, IF ANYONE WHICH IS UNLIKELY, not the guy with a Fuji x and 23mm trying to practise street photography.

      • X4dow@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        unfortenately u can get picked on with anything.
        I got asked straight up if I was a pedo by a dog walker at a public park, while sitting on a bench, cameras on the bench next to me turned off with lens caps on while waiting for a couple for their pre-wedding shoot once. Worth noting there was not a single human being other than the dog walker and myself in a 250+meter radius

        • digiplay@alien.topBEnglish
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          11 months ago

          My response to that would have been….unkind.

          I’m somewhat lucky in that my physical size means people don’t pipe up too much, though that’s changing as the uk weirdly falls into the belief that nobody would ever punch them in the face (not that anyone should, but let’s not act like it doesn’t happen).

          I once shot an incredibly beautiful photo of a child sitting on mum’s lap behind a booth at a farmers market in the USA. She was looking down lovingly and the child reached up with both hands to take her face. It was ADORABLE. she freaked out. Badly. I tried to show her the photo and she was basically shouting paedo and a crowd was forming. I called the police for her.

          She would have absolutely loved that photo if she had just been a bit more calm.