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?
Those cameras don’t put their recordings online for everyone to see.
There is a big difference.
One person watching the security cams vs thousands of people watching your photo online.
I would rather have a million strangers see my photo than one police officer. Plus Amazon knows what my face looks like so every time I walk in front of a Ring camera it knows where I am. Google knows literally everything about me. It’s hard to get worked up about some random people seeing photos of me when the world’s 4th largest company knows my innermost thoughts and desires.
And my insta has like 50 followers at best, its for my uni application. The entire world isn’t going to see it. Only friends and potential unis
what if the security camera footage is needed to be shown publicly on the news or for a crime? what if someone takes a selfie and you are in the background? what if someone is recording a tiktok and you walk into frame? you dont know if they are posting it to get 10 likes from their friends or if they have 70k followers.
it’s ridiculous to suggest that the number of people who see the photo somehow make it worse or better.
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
I would never take pictures of children due to the idea of pedos
Or better yet, they put images of their children in the bath on their socials because “that’s different”
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.
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
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.