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Ask permission to take pictures?

  • 18-03-2010 1:00pm
    #1
    LillyVanilli
    Registered Users Posts: 268 ✭✭


    Ok first off, I hate my picture being taken. I really dont like 99% of the pictures Im in.

    It happened yesterday and once previous to that, where i was standing around just waiting for someone or something and I noticed a person with a camera taking a picture of me or trying to anyway. I just walked away or turned around. My friend is a photographer and she often has lovely pictures of people walking in the park, or whatever.. But she doesnt ask peoples permission to use their image.

    Do you thinnk you should ask peoples permission before you take their picture? Especially if theres a chance that it may end up in a competition or online somewhere?


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,589 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    No. If you are out and about in public, you are fair game.

    Those images can't be used commercially and you would have grounds (I believe) if the photographer profited from that image for non editorial work.

    Sorry.


  • #3
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,703 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


    Deleted User wrote: »
    No. If you are out and about in public, you are fair game.

    Those images can't be used commercially and you would have grounds (I believe) if the photographer profited from that image for non editorial work.

    well, to clarify, the images can't be used commercially in the sense that they can't be used in advertisments and the like. OTOH, the photographer can sell the images as fine-art prints and make a healthy profit from them without having to involve the subject in any way (ie getting a release). There's some particular definition of a fine-art run which I can't remember.

    -edit-
    as regards the original question, the -ethics- of taking the pictures, as opposed to the legalities of if (two very different things), then sure, it'd be nice to ask permission first. It's often impossible though. As a photographer you're frequently outside a dynamic looking in. By asking permission you're involving yourself and changing the dynamic, often to the point where there's no real point in taking the picture anymore.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,589 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sorry - that was unclear. I meant that the OP can walk about the town without worrying that their face will become the front of some ad campaign!


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