Regarding the first, sure, and I forgot to touch on the idea that, when it comes to just pulling out a camera and taking shots, I don't particularly think you need to ask permission or release unless you are planning to publish. It's only if you want to very specifically have the person's attention, to get them to model for you that I think there's a problem.
In Nancy's original example, for instance, I don't think she would've much cared if her bothersome photographer just snapped a couple candids as she was working. It was the fact that she was trying to work, and he was insisting that she pay attention to him and pose anyways that made the situation problematic.
I myself really like candids, and I take a lot of them as well. Usually, I don't ask, even afterwards, unless I think it's a particularly good shot, and I want to offer it to the person, or if I think it's a potentially incriminating shot somehow and want to give them the opportunity to have me delete the photo. Should I be better about this? Maybe. But in a public arena, we live in a world where you get photographed hundreds of times a day already by security cameras and the like already. Being careful, and not doing anything incriminating is probably the best way to deal with that.
I worry about being careful sometimes, and don't sometimes. I'll probably worry more when I'm actually gainfully employed. *shrugs* I do know though --it was mostly that he was very blatantly trying to take a picture of me specifically without any indication he was doing so that bothered me.
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In Nancy's original example, for instance, I don't think she would've much cared if her bothersome photographer just snapped a couple candids as she was working. It was the fact that she was trying to work, and he was insisting that she pay attention to him and pose anyways that made the situation problematic.
I myself really like candids, and I take a lot of them as well. Usually, I don't ask, even afterwards, unless I think it's a particularly good shot, and I want to offer it to the person, or if I think it's a potentially incriminating shot somehow and want to give them the opportunity to have me delete the photo. Should I be better about this? Maybe. But in a public arena, we live in a world where you get photographed hundreds of times a day already by security cameras and the like already. Being careful, and not doing anything incriminating is probably the best way to deal with that.
I worry about being careful sometimes, and don't sometimes. I'll probably worry more when I'm actually gainfully employed. *shrugs* I do know though --it was mostly that he was very blatantly trying to take a picture of me specifically without any indication he was doing so that bothered me.
~Sor