Yet some photographers take pictures of random people without asking permission. Sometimes those photos are displayed in art galleries and sold to collectors. Asking the people permission would ruin the moment or particular expression the artist wants to capture. If the picture is taken in a public place no permission is needed before or after.
Disturbing the peace. Harassment. If the subject protests an argument will follow, voices will be raised and somebody might take a swing at someone. Giving the guy a piece of your mind is fine. The sign is a bad idea.
And what if the images were of minors? What then? Because photographing underaged girls goes from creepy to IMO unacceptable.
'Delete them all': Girl catches older men taking pictures of girls in bikinis on beach
A girl confronts two older men for taking pictures of girls and women in bikinis on a beach in Florida and yells at them to delete the photos.www.dailydot.com
Video at link.
My thoughts:
1. There is no expectation of privacy in public. What those guys did was perfectly legal. Just as legal as what the girl did in videoing them and posting that video online.
2. I believe in actions and consequences. If you wear a bikini in public...you might just get photographed. I've always found the concept of a woman wearing something so revealing and sexy and then complaining when people look at her body, puzzling.
By the same token, if you're ogling girls in bikinis or taking pictures of them and get called out on it, that's fair game, too.
Free speech cuts both ways.
3. She had every right to ask him to delete the photos...and he had every right to refuse.
You don't think any of that qualifies as disturbing the peace? Are we keeping in mind that the creep with the camera didn't break the law?
How old, is "old" to you?
Well then shouldn’t they ask for permission after the fact?
If they don't ask before they shouldn't ask after. It will just lead to arguments. If they're within the law they're fine.
Good as they may be I don’t think professionals routinely use iphone cameras.
Not usually. But if it's what they have when they see the picture they want... And exactly how expensive a camera do you want near sand, wind, and water?
I agree it's not right and I said I wouldn't do it.
They can. But you don't need permission to shoot anything or anyone you can see when standing in a public place.
I'd ask her to take her top off.
Between marriages when I was almost forty, I'd hit on twenty-year-olds at various dance clubs. For the most part, my advances were well received, even when I failed to land the prey. Nonetheless, there was this one who read me the riot act for "creeping" on her girlfriend. So, I asked her if she was jealous.
Even if of minors, it would be legal. "Acceptable" is a value judgement. Certainly creepy.
Libel laws compensate people for damage to their reputations.
And then black, white, gay, straight, etc...beaches, too, right? Need to make sure no one is offended!
Appears those women are so old they forgot the type of creepy guys that do that.
Yes, now that I'm older I don't get it as much but it's a relief. But omg I can see all those nasty pervs looking at my preteen daughter and trust me if I see them take pictures of her, I'd smack that phone out of their hands.
I agree.. and I'm sorry.. your story is shared with just about every woman I ever met.. my therapist has a stalker, all of my former girlfriends have described an experience with some perv that tried to pray or did pray on them.
