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Balmy October Part 1

 

My Blog is now up - with my favourite photos (from the Leica M9) from Brighton taken on Saturday 1 October - Please visit the link:

http://rangefinderchronicles.blogspot.com/2011/10/balmy-october-part-1-saturday-1-october.html

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Another from the series

 

Rangefinder Chronicles: Balmy October, Part 1 (Saturday 1 October, 2011)

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If you should ever try photographing me when I show you that I really don't want to be photographed at that same moment, you should have good insurances for yor stuff and body...:mad:

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Well there are sadly some people that think like you. If they were able to make the rules then so much of the great photography we have would not be there. Take any kind of photo journalism that seeks to expose either authority or something in a culture that those taking part would prefer to be kept hidden, or only shown in a sympathetic light. Luckily there are many brave photographers who are not in the slightest bit deterred by people like you

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...so much of the great photography we have would not be there....

 

Your picture #1 belongs definitely not to "great photography"!!

Most photos like these are not worth loosing one word about.

And it's a great difference photographing people of common interest or just private folks unwilling to be photographed.

But first you should learn respecting their privacy if you don't want to get in personally troubles.

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Unfortunately, we shall never agree Mr Nutzer, but I thank you for wasting so many words on my photos. Let's not bore the rest of the community with our quibbles. Here is another photo from a sunny day in Brighton :)

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As you keep talking about my photo, Mr Nutzer (and I do hope you visited the blog) I should mention that she reminds me of Amy Winehouse That's why I took the photo. Indeed I clicked at exactly the point she noticed me and covered her face. I then decided I preferred the photo precisely because she (successfully) covers her face which you cannot thus see.

 

It's simply a difference in opinion. What I don't understand is why people wish to ban photos they don't like, or start some boring row about them, instead of just taking their own photos and posting them. If we all took the same photos and applied the same rules photography would be very boring.

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That doesn't give you the right to bully folks with your aggression.

Until now you haven't written anything about the picture above. Offenses speak for itself and make each answer redundant.

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... now going to have some kind of fascist thought police

 

Having lost half my ancestors to fascists I am not a bit amused by your usage of that word here. Next you'll be calling the weather "fascist" when you've mislaid your brolly, I suppose.

 

Luckily there are many brave photographers

 

Are we now supposed to congratulate you on your bravery for showing here a picture of a person who obviously did not want to be photographed? What kind of journalistic accomplishment is that?

 

I do think people are overreacting here, on both sides of the dispute.

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If the threadopener would have treated the young lady of #1 in this kindly manner, we would have been spared of this unnecessary photo.

 

Simple point. The lady is in a public place. She has no right to privacy.

 

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Bill

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I don't really want to prolong this ill-tempered exchange but although the young woman may have no right to privacy in a public place (which I think is legally questionable) she does surely have a right to the same courtesy and consideration that one would like for oneself.

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Philip - accept your points. Both of them.

 

But back to the 'debate', I was interested in reading on another thread an argument that all street photography was bad if it did not engage the subject - ie candids (a point that was then retracted to be fair).

 

I don't agree with the proposition either, but it made me think..if I was some dslr shooter with my lens and took a shot, including the woman who looks like Amy, without her being aware of it, those who have objected so strongly here would possibly have no objections as the photos would not show such an engagement. But the woman may not have wished to appear in the photo. Indeed, if I asked all the people in all the photos maybe more than half would at first decline, and anyway it would the be too late. But as I don't tend to hide my camera (whilst not wishing to be too indiscreet), in this case the woman in question simply covers her face, and thus achieves the relative anonymity her gesture intended. Yet to the objectors here that is somehow worse than the former type shot they would not have noticed. It just emphases to me that such blanket moralising about what should or should not be allowed photographically is not only aesthiticaly moribund but is also morally moribund.

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... although the young woman may have no right to privacy in a public place (which I think is legally questionable) ...

 

It isn't.

 

I don't understand why this is so hard for some to grasp. Conflating legal fact and ethical viewpoints is muddled thinking. She is in a public place. She has no right to privacy. She has no copyright in her image. If you take a photo of her the result is yours. Provided you do not subsequently use that photo for commercial purposes (to advertise a product, for instance) or to defame her she has no grounds for complaint or recompense.

 

IMO the dynamic in Nick's shot is there precisely because she reacted to having her picture taken; it would otherwise likely be a competent record shot of a young woman who chooses to look like a dead celebrity.

 

I really don't understand the moral indignation and squeamishness about this.

 

Regards,

 

Bill

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