quick Q

just a quick Q ,I was stopped taking picturesof some school kids dancing a maypole in my town centre ,is this right ?

If its a public place then i would say no, there may be special by-laws that apply. Only if you intended to use the images for financial gain you would need a consent form.

Still its a difficult call, i dont like my photograph being taken, so understand others feeling the same, sadly the media seems to want to demonise photographers and the public all think they have rights that they dont as far as appearing in a public place.

Must admit i avoid any photo involving children myself.

so my safest way so far is not to put any on flick or here
cheers Mossy

Its sad that people see wrong intent, are we ever asked about CCTV, far more intrusive, personaly cant see why you cant put your images up, and if someone objected then i would take them off rather than cause a problem.

regards brian.

PS i hope others put forward their POV.

If you are in a public area nobody can stop you taking photos [Azz is the expert on this].

But if someone was taking photos of my child I would feel uneasy [rightly or wrongly, but thats how I would feel]

I do not take pics of any children other than the children I know when out and about at fairs etc.

Also I would never put a photo of someone else's child on the internet without asking them first. Although not against the law to do so, I just wouldn't

I think Azz sometime ago had some more details on this subject.

This sort of thing makes me quite cross, this country is in such a pickle with PC.

People made to feel uncomfortable of taking photographs in public... school nativity plays not taking place for fear of upsetting someone. Yet this country has more video cameras trained on us than any other country, next bit of legislation: we will have to be supervised to use a pair of scissors

Nanny state

My sons school have no rules against photographing anything. I photograph every play and sports event and have never been questioned.

I was stopped by a woman from the council who said that the school where the kids were from were upset that I was taking pictures but there was at least another 6 or 7 others taking pictures or videos on phones etc but they were not spoken to.
this is the scene in front of the famous Eleanor Statue

I can see at least 4 others taking photos and would have said are you going to stop those people as well? then my reaction would have been to say "sod off". You could have taken her picture and lodged a formal complain to the council about her. I bet 10 to 1 she didn't show an identity card either.

Altenatively there is the old trick of showing you have deleted the photos then when home use a retrieve program like Sandisk have. Remember that by deleting a picture doesn't remove the data which is recoverable.


Bazza

Often i think its the type of kit your carrying that attracts the attention, A DSLR i s a no go, yet small compacts can have impressive zooms and mega pixel capability. Another point is schools sometimes flog their own photos of events.