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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 2 years 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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[–] standinghampton@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.

I’ve also had people try to tell me it’s somehow wrong or immoral to take peoples pictures without permission. It’s not creepy at all. It’s Street Photography, not a spank bank.

The question is: How do you feel about shooting and viewing street photography?

If the non-permission aspect bothers you, I guess you could show your pics to the people in them and ask their permission to use them. Good luck with that though because the interesting moments you capture aren’t studio portraits.

Asking permission beforehand will ruin the spontaneity and genuine emotion of the moment 100% of the time.

Personally, I know I’m making art in the street photography genre, I’m more than ok with that. Other people’s issues are just that - their issues.