Posting photos of homeless people w/o permission !!!
Dec 4, 2012 09:47:22 #
Dec 4, 2012 09:48:34 #
I don't think the homeless man has a case. This is a "news" story, and as such does not require any kind of photo release (in my opinion, of course, and I am not a lawyer). If a newspaper had to have a signed photo release from everyone in the news they print photos of, the press would come to a complete halt as far as photos are concerned.
GC likes NIKON wrote:
from an AP news story today about the NY homeless ... (show quote)
Dec 4, 2012 09:49:17 #
PalePictures wrote:
I pay the homeless $5 to do a 2 min shoot. It's a ... (show quote)
Outstanding shots, sounds like you have the proper grasp on shooting "street people", always show respect, never pity. It's amazing the difference a $5.00 bill in the pocket
can make on a person.
Dec 4, 2012 09:50:06 #
Dec 4, 2012 09:52:45 #
I have only shot a photo of one homeless person, and then with his permission. That's a legal area I try to keep away from.
Dec 4, 2012 09:58:03 #
Unless it is used for advertising a product, it will only cost the photographer. The reason I say this is knowing the only piece of pie to be had is the one the lawyers will get from the only one who can pay - tax payers and the person who works for a living.
I had a friend of mine from high school who used to give homeless food and a place to bathe and would also buy them some clothes. She was 35 when they found her body stabbed to death from one of the homeless individuals. They never caught the culprit.
No pie if you don't work for it. If you require assistance, you make the effort to get it. It is out there. If you require medical institutionalizing, it is also available for those who seek it. No work, No Pie.
If you want to give someone some help, God bless you, but it should not be the courts that do the giving through your bank account in this case.
I had a friend of mine from high school who used to give homeless food and a place to bathe and would also buy them some clothes. She was 35 when they found her body stabbed to death from one of the homeless individuals. They never caught the culprit.
No pie if you don't work for it. If you require assistance, you make the effort to get it. It is out there. If you require medical institutionalizing, it is also available for those who seek it. No work, No Pie.
If you want to give someone some help, God bless you, but it should not be the courts that do the giving through your bank account in this case.
Dec 4, 2012 10:04:44 #
I know one or two homeless people -- have known them for many years -- and it simply is a fact that these two people cannot keep a job and want to be "free." They are not willing to work at a steady job that would allow them to rent their own apartment. They sleep in some very strange places -- like in the laundry room of a large apartment complex where they can hide behind the machines and not be seen. They are utterly dysfunctional, too sane to be institutionalized, but too screwed up psychologically to have a more secure life. They complain that they want one, but when they have the opportunity, they prefer instead of be "free." I occasionally have coffee with one of them just to see how he is doing. The only change I have seen in him in 30 years is that he gets older, but never wiser.
Bozsik wrote:
Unless it is used for advertising a product, it wi... (show quote)
Dec 4, 2012 10:08:09 #
dickhrm
Loc: Spingfield, IL
The tourist must have been well shielded from the goings on and/or had a long telephoto lens, to have been unnoticed during what appears to have been a relatively long time span.
jjadeco25 wrote:
There was a tourist from VT I think they said who ... (show quote)
Dec 4, 2012 10:08:58 #
Sounds like the homelss man got his piece of the pie, he got a free pair of boots.
Dec 4, 2012 10:18:14 #
dixiemegapixel
Loc: Salemburg, NC
So what if he was a veteran? He was an Army Food Services Specialist. As a thirty-year veteran, enlisted and officer, I too, think I know what veterans go through. I was somewhat surprised when I learned in 1965 about scores soldiers receive on their aptitude tests in Basic Training. Cooks were the guys who scored lowest. If this guy was a grunt or a combat medic, I could better empathize. Additionally, to my knowledge he is not a "Combat Veteran". As such, I disdain any claim of PTSD.
Dec 4, 2012 10:19:19 #
PalePictures wrote:
I pay the homeless $5 to do a 2 min shoot. It's a ... (show quote)
excellent portraits....... :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Dec 4, 2012 10:37:52 #
And a grandfather who could help. Not eveyone has relatives who can help.
Dec 4, 2012 10:42:56 #
sjbegres
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
You're a good guy. Thanks for what you do.
Sherrill
Sherrill
PalePictures wrote:
I pay the homeless $5 to do a 2 min shoot. It's a ... (show quote)
Dec 4, 2012 10:44:08 #
These people may have tried and tried an the system beat them. There is a point beyond which a person gives up.After several lay offs I gave up looking for a job at 55-60, because no one would hire me, and I had master degree studies and a lifetime of experience in applied science . Thank god I had people on my side. There's a point where you are rejected too many times; are you too old, to ugly, member of a minority, black, woman, Hispanic ? You dont have that many chances against the more accepted population. It's time to retire,if you can.
Dec 4, 2012 10:50:07 #
Bram boy
Loc: Vancouver Island B.C. Canada
The laws are different in each state . But i think in the bulk of them i could take a pic. Of you in a public place eating a ice cream cone , and put it in a mag, news paper, and you could not sue for any thing . As long as i did
Not get any thing for it , but if your fly was down then its a different story. Or if it was demeaning in any way.
Not get any thing for it , but if your fly was down then its a different story. Or if it was demeaning in any way.
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