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?
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.