Ann, Several years ago, I brought an album with photos taken at a music festival to the next one, so that people can see the photos. Several people said: "Great album, all wonderful photos, except for my photograph, could you please remove it?" A similar situation repeated the next time... If I removed all the photos as requested, the album would have been half-empty.
I usually do respect when people indicate to me that they don't want to get their photos taken. However, most of the time I ignore requests like those described above, unless there is a good reason that I hadn't thought about while selecting photos for printing/inclusion to the gallery. Ironically, recently, I had a dancer who stopped in the middle of a social dance (tango), walked to me across the floor (to the edge of the dance floor), and asked not to take any more pictures of her. (This happened after I had taken a few within the previous couple minutes.) I was surprised by the way it was done, but stopped taking her photos. When I posted the photos I took (including the photos of that person taken prior to this request), - she contacted me asking if she can get some prints. She also apologized for her reaction explaining it by the fact that she did not like photos of her that other people had taken before. After she's got her prints from me, she came to me at the next dance event and told me that in the future, I may take as many photos of her as I want. Now, with the children, I understand that the situation can be a bit more sensitive. Being a father of a little girl, I understand why parents can be [over]protective. But I think a lot of present paranoia is due to the media. I don't think that in general people's behavior has drastically changed recently, but rather people became more aware of what happens. So, when I get to photograph other children, I often ask the parents if they mind that. But then sometimes it's just not practical, say as in this case: http://42graphy.org/tango/denvermem-2010/_IR_8543.html or this one: http://42graphy.org/tango/denvermem-2010/_IR_8918.html . :-) Igor Fri Dec 30 14:54:04 EST 2011 Ann Sanfedele wrote: > I don't think it is psycho of a parent to ask that photos of his or her > children be taken down from a website - if they are reconizeable as > individuals, certainly. had I been the photograpehr I would have > respected the parents wishes as I would anyone whose photo I took > who disliked it... at least in areas where one's removing the > photos actually does get it removed. > And that goes for any of you guys - even if I like the photo > I'd remove it. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
