Photographing your kids in a shopping centre

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Haha, yeah my point was that for every story of people being hassled and what not there's plenty of folk taking photos and having no problems at all.

I've been doing street photography for the last few years and never had any hassle but I don't start threads about this so everyone thinks the world's ****ed.
 
odd jim said:
I don't understand. What have the police done here for that to be brought to the fore? They seem to have been quite reasonable and frank about it.
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fixedimage said:
Before anyone ****es and moans about photographers rights, take a wander to the Xscape centre, not exactly a million miles from Braehead and packed to the rafters with people openly photographing and videoing their family and friends with scant regard for who else is in the frame and in coming on 5 years of working there iv never seen nor heard of anyone getting hassle for it.
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I walked through the shopping centre last night with the D700 and a 300m f/2.8 (and another lens over my shoulder) :lol:
 
fabs said:
Seriously Simon, you need to start reading peoples' posts properly. He was pointing out that he had never seen or heard of anyone getting hassle for taking photos in the Xscape centre, where on earth did you get that he thought they were wrong to take photos from?
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( people openly photographing and videoing their family and friends with scant regard for who else is in the frame )

From the post above :)
 
Who the H&** cares, 50 40 30 years ago so what everyone took photos, if you were in it at the coast so what, I have been in photos people are taking god, get real who cares if someone wants my fat ass in their shots, and as my teenagers grew from children they were always clothed.

What makes me laugh are the petty minded do gooders who bash their drums and yet these days you openly see moron parents allowing their girls and boys any age from babies to five and more running nude on the beech, but you take out a camera to photograph the beech and you are a pervert, not the brain dead parent who allows it.

I don't condone taking photos of children but even to this day AP talks about "street photography", in years pasy children in swimwear often went into AP and other mags, no one thought about or cared about it.

Peopler who do, get a life.
 
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fixedimage said:
Haha, yeah my point was that for every story of people being hassled and what not there's plenty of folk taking photos and having no problems at all.

I've been doing street photography for the last few years and never had any hassle but I don't start threads about this so everyone thinks the world's ****ed.
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That a bit like saying i have never been burgled,so i dont know why people who have, complain,just because something never happen to you,doesnt mean its never happen to anybody else,we all go thought life thinking its never going to happen to us till it does :shrug:
 
simonblue said:
( people openly photographing and videoing their family and friends with scant regard for who else is in the frame )

From the post above :)
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See, this is where you are going wrong. You read through a post and pick out a small part of it and interpret it in a way that you can make an argument out of it. Personally, I read the whole post and recognised the obvious sarcasm in that sentence. ;)
 
simonblue said:
That a bit like saying i have never been burgled,so i dont know why people who have, complain,just because something never happen to you,doesnt mean its never happen to anybody else,we all go thought life thinking its never going to happen to us till it does :shrug:
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I don't get what you're trying to say here? Are you saying it's a bad thing to accidentally have your photo taken by a street photographer?

Or are you talking about being "challenged"?
 
Sorry but anybody who is concerned about having their photo taken in public is a stupid idiot.

Have you not all heard of CCTV, your filmed everywhere in public so what the hell are you so concerned about if your in a photo.
 
Flash In The Pan said:
I walked through the shopping centre last night with the D700 and a 300m f/2.8 (and another lens over my shoulder) :lol:
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oh you rebel you :lol: - were you also stinking of booze and waving you man meat arround ? :nuts:
 
big soft moose said:
oh you rebel you :lol: - were you also stinking of booze and waving you man meat arround ? :nuts:
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Flash In The Pan said:
No, but just about everyone else seemed to be :lol:
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Christ, I walked through Braehead on my break a few weeks ago and it was like something out of Dawn of the Dead, everyone seemed to be either junked up on something or just half witted and wandering aimlessly with a glazed look.
 
simonblue said:
That a bit like saying i have never been burgled,so i dont know why people who have, complain,just because something never happen to you,doesnt mean its never happen to anybody else,we all go thought life thinking its never going to happen to us till it does :shrug:
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Or is it like saying, "I know some people who have been burgled and they really harp on about it, it gets other people going too, telling stories of how you used to be able to leave your doors unlocked when you went to work. Luckily I haven't been burgled though and I know plenty of other people who haven't so in reality, the world's really not all that bad."
 
fixedimage said:
Christ, I walked through Braehead on my break a few weeks ago and it was like something out of Dawn of the Dead, everyone seemed to be either junked up on something or just half witted and wandering aimlessly with a glazed look.
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tempting though it is to make a crack about glaswegians :lol: I think thats symptomatic of shopping centres everywhere

a) they are warm and dry and free to enter so they attract all the dossers, junkies etc without anywhere else to go.

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b) a couple of hours of being dragged round the shops looking at an interminable number of shoes/dresses/ and 'things we need for the house' will turn any reasonable person into a brain dead zombie
 
fixedimage said:
Christ, I walked through Braehead on my break a few weeks ago and it was like something out of Dawn of the Dead, everyone seemed to be either junked up on something or just half witted and wandering aimlessly with a glazed look.
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Was there a Clan match on by any chance? :lol:
 
big soft moose said:
tempting though it is to make a crack about glaswegians :lol: I think thats symptomatic of shopping centres everywhere

a) they are warm and dry and free to enter so they attract all the dossers, junkies etc without anywhere else to go.
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I can't comment about Braehead, but at the nearby Silverburn the dossers and junkies (read: "locals") tend to get shown off the premises pretty sharpish, changed days from the time of the old Pollok Centre it replaced, which also looked as if it was a holding pen for the Jeremy Kyle Show....
 
whiteflyer said:
Sorry but anybody who is concerned about having their photo taken in public is a stupid idiot.

Have you not all heard of CCTV, your filmed everywhere in public so what the hell are you so concerned about if your in a photo.
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You dismiss anyone whose opinions don't happen to agree with yours as a 'stupid idiot'. Who gave you the authority to make this call, or is it just gratuitous rudeness?

Of course I've heard of state CCTV surveillance. I've seen the cameras too. That's where my concerns begin and, largely, end.
 
MartynK said:
You dismiss anyone whose opinions don't happen to agree with yours as a 'stupid idiot'. Who gave you the authority to make this call, or is it just gratuitous rudeness?

Of course I've heard of state CCTV surveillance. I've seen the cameras too. That's where my concerns begin and, largely, end.
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Whilst I too believe that people are too petty minded these days and care about the most pathetic things, when there are millions starving to death we worry about a photo being taken in public, I have to say that I too think that

"Sorry but anybody who is concerned about having their photo taken in public is a stupid idiot. "

Is a self indulgant statement, and bad mannered too. There are more adult ways to put views such as this over, for example.

"Anyone concerned about being caught on camera in the 21st century needs to remember that we are all caught on CCTV every day".

Much more polite than blatantly calling people stupid.

Perhaps we should begin to remember that..

"Good manners cost nothing"
 
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OK maybe a little blunt, but the fact remains we are caught on state and private CCTV every single day, the odd photographer doing street photos should be of no concern at all.

MartynK said:
You dismiss anyone whose opinions don't happen to agree with yours as a 'stupid idiot'. Who gave you the authority to make this call, or is it just gratuitous rudeness?
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I don't need anybody authority to speak what I think we live in a country were we still have some freedoms left, one of them is freedom to voice your opinions.
 
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Flash In The Pan said:
I walked through the shopping centre last night with the D700 and a 300m f/2.8 (and another lens over my shoulder) :lol:
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do it with a real camera like a canon and you'd get a different response :P
 
JSER said:
Whilst I too believe that people are too petty minded these days and care about the most pathetic things, when there are millions starving to death we worry about a photo being taken in public, I have to say that I too think that

"Sorry but anybody who is concerned about having their photo taken in public is a stupid idiot. "

Is a self indulgant statement, and bad mannered too. There are more adult ways to put views such as this over, for example.

"Anyone concerned about being caught on camera in the 21st century needs to remember that we are all caught on CCTV every day".

Much more polite than blatantly calling people stupid.

Perhaps we should begin to remember that..

"Good manners cost nothing"
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indeed :shrug:

but is it good manners to describe people as 'petty minded ' or 'self indulgent and bad mannered' ? :lol:
 
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POAH said:
do it with a real camera like a canon and you'd get a different response :P
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yeah - you'd probably get mugged

FITP is wise to take less desirable equipment on such excursions imo :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
big soft moose said:
indeed :shrug:

but is it good manners to describe people as 'petty minded ' or 'self indulgent and bad mannered' ? :lol:
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POO so Im in the dog house yet again, that is what becomes of being a self opinionated outspoken Sagittarian.
 
JSER said:
POO so Im in the dog house yet again, that is what becomes of being a self opinionated outspoken Sagitarian.
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twas just a joke - dont take it to heart
 
Edit: nevermind, don't want to start another argument.
 
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