Fun With Water

[wlotus]

22 May 2009

Comments

[tracied.livejournal.com]

THis is just a curiosity question, but do you ask permission before shooting kids? I've always felt like, if I don't like strangers taking pictures of my kids, then maybe I shouldn't take pictures of them without permission? I end up missing out on a lot of great pics because of that. I will take some if the kid has their back to me, or you can't easily identify them but mostly i just don't.

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

I used to feel that way, too. In this case, the kids were in a fountain in an unenclosed, touristy, fully public area. I figured that if any parents did not want their kids photographed, they would pull them out of the fountain...and perhaps keep them out of the public altogether. :-) But in other situations I am very careful about only photographing kids when I am physically close enough to the parent/guardian to make eye contact and judge their reaction to me when I smile.

At the end of the day, if I snap a photo of a person (whether child or adult) and the person or their guardian protests, I can simply delete the photo and move on.

[lilrongal.livejournal.com]

Great minds think alike:

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/lilrongal/2671606101/)

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

Hooray for water fun!

[iswari.livejournal.com]

These are great!

[scream4noreason.livejournal.com]

As a gay man it would be impossible for me to take this kind of picture in public, however artistic in nature, without having the police called on me.

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

As a man it is a challenge, according to my photography buddies. For example, they avoid photographing children because of a fear of pedophiles, most of whom are men. But there was also a man with a DSLR photographing the kids that day. He didn't do anything to draw attention to himself, and no one protested his presence. As I said, this was a heavily-trafficked tourist spot, as opposed to a fenced-in playground.