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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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[–] X4dow@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (11 children)

a lot of people still think they have the right to privacy in public (they dont) and can tell you to delete any photos of them (they dont).
Also a lot of people think kids are more protected from being photographed in public (they arent)
There is the moral side of it though, culturewise, the UK people like their privacy, but at the same time, they dont realise that in a town center they're being filmed by 3-5 cameras at all times.

[–] qtx@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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.

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

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.

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