Legal and Ethical

Taking photographs of members of the public + private property:

https://www.blpawards.org/competition/photo-rights

Model release in photography:

https://www.splento.com/blog/photography/the-model-release-policy/


When taking photographs of beautiful Doncaster I will need to consider legal and ethical constraints that may occur and how I can prevent them from occurring when taking my shots. I will need to acknowledge this in order to follow all the rules and regulations, during the time I am taking my pictures. Things that I will need focus on when I am taking images is taking shots of members of the public, shooting in private property and having a model release form when necessary.

On some occasions in photography you will potentially take shots of people that could be published or is for commercial use, therefore you would need a model release form, as it could be published on to the web or for e-commerce uses e.g. advertisements. This is needed so both the photographer and the model know when and where the photos are being used and what content surrounds the image. A model release form gives the photographer the right to have access to images of that specific person. But if the photograph isn't used commercially then a model release form isn't essential. However, in my photography a model release for isn't needed as I am not taking any portrait photo of anyone. 

For some of my shots I am going to shoot in different locations and have the right to do so, as it is within the law. Some locations which I will need to shoot in is in the train-station, town and Lakeside, when taking images as they are in public places I will have the right to take images as it is legal to do so without having to ask for permission before hand. On the other hand if I needed to take images in a private propriety I would then need to ask for permission. 

If I was taking pictures of members of the public I would need to make sure that if I was in a public place and the picture isn't just a photo of a single person or a group of people then I wouldn't need to get consent from people in the shot. Whereas, if my image was of a specific person or on private land then get a model release form to make sure I get consent from the people in the image. 

I will also need to ensure the ethical issues that could possibly occur. Ethical issues aren't an illegal issue however the actions of my images could come across wrong or morally incorrect to different people.

The main ethical issue that I want to avoid is trying to quickly take photos of people and them not having time to react so then you would get a photo of there reaction, before they have chance to move out the way of a shot. This style of photography is one than Bruce Gilden is known for, to get peoples expressions when going about there day to day life. However, when Gilden was questioned and went ahead and said that he has no ethics, which shows he doesn't believe in what people think or care about the opinions or feelings of others, making him a selfish person towards members of the public.

In some of my images the wildlife may potentially ruin or add to a shot, therefore in some cases I would want to disturb it to get the 'perfect shot. Ethically this would be an issue as if the wildlife was positioned to where I wanted it to be then the shot wouldn't be accurate of what was in the frame which would be creating a fake idea of what a place is like for viewers of the image. I will make sure that I don't move any type of animals and displace them from there homes, as none of my shots will include ruining wildlife then I will not need to take these actions, but these issues will still be taken on board.

 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

LO1: P2 Planning

Image
Purpose:  The purpose of the my shoot is to take 10 pictures of 'beautiful Doncaster'. The shots which I have been asked/ can to include is portraits, landscapes, abstract, urban/rural shots to showcase the positive sides of Doncaster. However, when taking these images I will need to ensure I comply with all laws and consider the health and safety as well as the ethics that will be involved with the shoot and edit.  1: The yellow Y near the Rossington roundabout, using a telephoto lens to get a close up of the Y from being far away for health and safety reasons.   2: 3 of my images will be a triptych of different graffiti around Doncaster. I will use 15-18mm lens to create these landscape shots   5: photo of a moving train at the train station using a slow shutter speed to show movement of the train with a wide angle, with a 15-18mm lens 6: under view shot of a brick wall with moss growing on it or with a ladybird crawling on it. portrait 8mm lens 7: photo of lakesid...
Read more

P3 settings on camera

Image
These are the unedited images from all the shoots which I have done. These are the images which i have chosen to edit   This video shows how I made sure the camera setting was set to RAW. To change the aperture I learnt to do so by watching different   YouTube videos on how to access the part of the settings which we can change it.   I then changed the different aperture settings and then found the best   aperture for the different shots, with also adjusting the brightness and creating different   shadows within a shot.  ​ When changing the aperture, it is most called 'opening up' and 'stopping down'. If   you 'opening up'  the aperture it means you are doubling the amount of light that   travels through that specific scene. But if you stop down the aperture you are   halving the amount of light used in the scene.  To change the shutter speed on my camera I also used a YouTube tutorial in how to do so. Changing the shutter spee...
Read more

M4: Metadata

Image
Metadata is data that describes and gives you information about other data. Metadata can be manually by the creator of the products or it can be produced automatically by a type of software on the device. One of the main reasons why people use this is so it is quick to access data when people need it and it is my efficient one trying to find a document, if your files are unorganised. This also allows photographers to add copyright to images to stop people climbing them as their own without paying or asking for permission. The different data within the metadata conclude the author of the work the file size the date and time it was created.  EXIF Data, Exchangeable Image File Format, is the basics of meta data which is  related then stored autom atically by camera whenever you go to take a photo. EXIF date is the technical data such as the equipment that is used to take the photo and the  time the photo was taken. However, IPTC is the more variant of the two because it is i...
Read more