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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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[–] Civita2017@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Not photographing people in public is a bit like not looking at people in public. Completely silly and has always been a huge subject in photography. Not for me personally as I hate humans cluttering up the landscape or architecture - most are revolting anyway. Occasionally, like in Italy you see beautiful people everywhere and they enhance the views. But if they are in a public place, they are there to be seen and can be photographed. Probably shouldn’t follow people around to take photos - that would be a bit off. Frankly these days, people are so addicted to selfies that they would probably follow you around instead.