Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/07

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Subject: [Leica] photo'ing in a seminar. What would you have done?
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sun May 7 07:21:48 2006
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Richard,
You did the correct thing.  You were in a seminar about photography with
other photographers.  Photographers take pictures, it would be a really big
stretch to believe that photographers will not take photographs.  I would
have continued to take pictures after the request, just not with that person
in the picture.  If others objected then I would quit.  PC has really gotten
too rampant,  taking pictures is not child molestation, we have all had tens
if not thousands of pictures taken of us and we still have our souls.  So,
normal rules or politeness apply.  You would not take a picture that makes
someone look bad(well maybe Al Gore), and you wouldn't take a picture of a
group that made something out of context look like something embarrassing
was going on.  But to record something for your memories, sure.  When one of
the group raised an objection then you quit, quite right.

Don't worry about it.  Keep pushing that shutter release.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 5/7/06, Richard <richard-lists@imagecraft.com> wrote:
>
> I was in a seminar today. There were 7 of us, critiquing each other's work
> under the guidance of the lecturer (On topic: she used to use a Leica too,
> may be still does). After a few hours, I thought the interaction
> happenings
> were good, so I took out my M and shoot here and there. Just a frame now
> and then. We went to lunch and after restarting, I started firing off a
> shot or two. Then one of the participants looked up and said, she doesn't
> appreciate to be in the pictures, so of course I put the camera away then.
> None of the other people, including the lecturer, spoke up either before
> or
> after, and I know for sure that they saw me shooting.
>
> So what would you have done? Not shooting at all since it may be
> distracting? Ask permissions in the beginning first? Or? I sort of figured
> that since we are all photographers that being photographing would not
> have
> been an issue. Guess I was wrong.
>
> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please
> use richard at imagecraft.com)
>
>
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