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Have just deleted a siloutte shot of two of a mates kids with frisbee. Even though i had the fathers permission to use the shot.Because of my wife have a "sun readers" approach of the internet is full of perv,s you never know who will be looking at them etc etc.
Anyone else had similar problems?
i felt sad as i knew this was a good shot and had 22clicks before i deleted it. But i felt i had little choice if i was to avoid a domestic!
Max
"That's overreacting then, isn't it?"
Just a tad! You were obviously happy with the shot when you uploaded it, and I'm sure you're a responsible adult, so why remove it? If it were mine, domestic or no domestic, it would still be there. I'm sure if it were remotely risque, people here would have told you, rather than give it 22 clicks.
This Shot caused a lot of controversy when posted on a US Based site and made me realise exactly what type of unfortunate society we are heading towards.
It was shot in a remote village in Northern Laos where the sick aspects of 'modern societies' do not exist. It was shot with the same innocence and joy that the kids were enjoying and the proceeds from the photos sold from here go directly back to UNICEF to fund educational programmes in the area. And yes, the families have seen, with delight, the photo.
I am all for getting permission from parents and we must be careful and responsible with our photos but we should not see the whole world through the eyes of a few sick individuals.
Imagine never seeing another photo portraying the enviable innocence of children....
i have pictures of my grandkids in my portfolio,nearly all are portraits , i enter them in the belief they are good pictures and i am so proud of my grandkids i like to show other people how lucky i am to have them.if some weirdo gets other pleasure from them thats up to him, he cannot do my grandkids any harm. if you did not put any child pictures on the net all they have to do is look in the local photo studio window and they can see plenty.
I'm very wary of taking any pics of my grandkids, that can be seen as controversial. The old naked baby on a rug, to embarrass them with, later in life is out of the window now. Took a couple of Nudy Rudies of them running around at bath time, and immediately deleted them. Sad times but better to be safe.
Col
Very saddening to read this forum. I can't believe you are deleting pics of your grandkids Col, naked or not. Something is seriously wrong somewhere.
Quote: The old naked baby on a rug, to embarrass them with, later in life is out of the window now
Is it?
Ok, maybe don't post them on the internet, but what's the problem, for the family album? Is someone going to see them and then report you to the police???
It's the way society reacts. Not beyond the bounds of probability, that you can be charged with invading their human rights. By taking advantage of the grandkids vulnerability. It's not what I think that counts, innocence is not what it was. It's a sad world out there
Col ps. Remember the ban by a hospital, of looking at new born babies!!!!
This is so, so sad. I don't mean you Max, just that this should really be a non-issue and isn't it awful it has become.
I would not post a picture of a child up with its real name or anything to identify it. Other than that, I say stand up for freedom of expression - these pictures are taken in innocence and will be viewed as such.
As for the risk of those who might not view them as such, well if they are not risque, then that is their problem. We are not a thought police state.
How awful that just when photography has become so cheap and easy now there are all these worries about what to photograph! (children, crime scenes, buildings - you might be a terrorist - candids of people - you don't have their consent).
Now back to that fungi....
A very simple solution would be to stop reading the Sun. The world has gone mad. Paranoia prevails and the only people suffering are the children as us aldults deprive them of their freedoms.
I used to play for hours and hours and hours in the fileds behind our house. I hope we get back to this one day.
Steve
Quote: Remember the ban by a hospital, of looking at new born babies!!!!
As a nation we are prone to supinely giving in without argument to those 'who know best' or have some 'official' capacity.
The trouble is that once some jobsworth make a stupid ruling like the above, everyone complies instead of kicking up hell and telling him where to stick his b****y rule book.
Then before you know it, every organisation adopts the same attitude, in order to be seen as 'progressive' or 'PC'.
All these daft pronouncements should be nipped in the bud bfore they become the norm.
I don't get it: So there is a 0.001% of population which are perverts and they should hold the rest 99.999% as hostage???
If I'll have a good photo of a child I'l post it where ever I want to. And if there's a pervert somewhere - well, that's life.
When you walk with your children - do you think of all the perverts walking on the street? And if there are such - will you keep your child lock at home?
I think our society is over-protective.
When you put a person (child or adult) in a cocoon you risk it will, some day, burst. The shock may be much worse of an option. Think about it.
Ilia Kagan.
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