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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Am I a horrible person for posting my people photography on my insta? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Mcr_enthusiastic_kid@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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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?

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[–] themanlnthesuit@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Is your friend an artist who does some sort of creative work related to portraying human nature? If so, I'd lend weight to their opinion. If not, disregard, he's just speaking out of his ass.

The thing about freedom of speech is that everyone is allowed to have an opinion, but it doesn't make everyone's opinions worth a damn.

If you're gonna listen to the opinions of everybody you're never gonna do shit. You've got to have the backbone to listen to somebody and confidently reply "I understand your point of view, but I also think you don't know a damn about what you're talking about."

Not unlike people without medical qualifications having an opinion on vaccines IMHO.