All Photographers are dangerous!

big soft moose said:
So i'd ask again why does your 'right' to take these photos take precedence over the parents right to enjoy their day out without having people photographing their kids uninvited ,
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Neither of these "rights" you mention actually exist.
 
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big soft moose said:
Its was a ban on photographing kids without their parent or guardians consent which he suggested - which seems eminently sensible to me , I'm not sure why anyone would want photographs of a strangers kids
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Great! So I'm in Trafalgar Square, taking pic of the fountains, when some snotty-nosed brat walks in front of my camera. Suddenly I'm a criminal! Utter bloody nonsense.

I'd prefer a different way of solving the problem. Breeders who don't want their precious darlings photographed don't let them out in public.
 
big soft moose said:
can you really not see the difference between setting out to take pictures of other peoples kids and taking them incidentally - i'm talking about legislating for the former
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How do you prove what a photo was taken of? Here's my theoretical shot of a concert in our market place. Lovely sunny day, so small aperture and everything is in focus and sharp. However, there's a bunch of young children in the audience dancing at the bottom of the shot.
Are they incidental, or were they my target and I just didn't have them central in the frame?
and why do you want these picture in the first place ? (and again i'm talking about strangers kids as principal subjects, not a random child in the background while you are photographing your child, dog, tree , sunset or whatever )
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Because they're doing something interesting and/or funny?

Why do you take photo's of things in the first place?
 
hollis_f said:
Great! So I'm in Trafalgar Square, taking pic of the fountains, when some snotty-nosed brat walks in front of my camera. Suddenly I'm a criminal! Utter bloody nonsense.

I'd prefer a different way of solving the problem. Breeders who don't want their precious darlings photographed don't let them out in public.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ6DqhPuPpQ

Happens to the best of us ;)
 
simonblue said:
Did I say banning all computers,I said banning adults taking to children on a computer unless they knew them.
It make more sense than banning photography,after all if adults were not allowed to make contact with any child on a computer they did not know how could people groom them.

It's just the big thing at the moment,photographer = pedeo or terrorist.

And some of us are just fed up with it :(
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Yes you did, as I quoted.

"*****ban all computer*****or pass a law that's said it's unlawful to talk to a child on a computer,unless you know them,to me that would make more sense"

I read that to mean both.
 
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The other problem is that if there was a law about not taking photos of children without parents consent, you would basically have banned photography, because a soon a you put your camera up to your eye you would be accused by some over zealous parent of photographing little Johnny without their permission.

Better ban landscape photography aswell just incase you get a child on it.

Its bad enough now with schools denying parents the right to get photos of their children in school nativities, sports days and the likes, I am fortunate that my girls school isn't like that, I would be devastated if I didn't have photos if my kids doing all these things, personally I believe that if a parent refuses to let their child be photographed then they shouldn't be in the production. I know that sounds harsh but 1 child trumps the rights of every other child and the other parents rights to have photographs of their children isn't far either.

It us just unworkable
 
Flash In The Pan said:
Ever watched Dexter?
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off topic but..dexter is brilliant. I have watched every series. Fantastic ending last week.

In one episode Dexter had his Nikon camera around his neck & you couldn't see the Nikon embroidery on the strap. Cut to when he had walked around the dead body and the strap was showing the embroisery.

I even had to rewind it to point it out to the GF :bang:
 
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