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Personally, the ethical question for me isn't about the taking of pictures. It's about what's done with those pictures once taken.
by JohnFen 2mo ago
Personally, the ethical question for me isn't about the taking of pictures. It's about what's done with those pictures once taken.
- PaulHoule 2mo agoMy "street photography" involves getting consent at least 90% of the time but I practice an unusual form of "character photography" where I "go out" like this https://mastodon.social/@UP8/117049900145791976 https://mastodon.social/@UP8/117049900145791976 to get people to smile. There are certainly the grey areas, like the time I was taking pictures of a race and somebody who (I think) wasn't in the race did something incredibly athletic and beautiful to (I think) avoid getting photographed but they looked so awesome doing it I published it anyway. Once I got a complaint because I was "talking to high school students" at a festival but another event I had a group of several elementary schoolers see me and immediately start ordering me around [1] and "can I check in with your parents?" seemed like a real buzzkill. [1] I wrote "The user manual for the Fox-Photographer" for adults, they didn't need it!