When Someone Photographs You After You Said Not To

Mizzkitt

Mizzkitt

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Not your most flattering look and you told them not to take a picture. Then of course they have to post it on Facebook cause it might be good for a laugh.

How would you react?
 

I would think that person is not very respectful of your wishes to not have your picture taken and then to go a step further and post it on Facebook....not nice, not funny. Sounds kind of undermining, vindictive and disrespectful. Is this a friend or someone you don't know to well?
 
I guess I'm just not very photogenic because for some reason pictures of me always come out looking like the wanted posters at the Post Office but I'm rather proud of the picture below so I'd feel good about using it on FB.

Go ahead and admit it, I look pretty darn hot don't I ?

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Back in the late 70’s, while investigating a car-truck collision on the PA Turnpike, we had a big rig come through what was then just a steel girder being used as a divider and struck the car head on. The truck, after colliding with the car, was somewhat on top of part of the car’s side. We had to have two wreckers separate the vehicles before removing the car’s driver and passengers.

In the car were three people. One male, one female and one child. The other Trooper tried his best to keep the media photographers away while we removed the bodies, but one photographer was able to use his special lense to take a shot of the child, which was a 12 year-old female child.

We were all really pissed, but thankfully, the AP refused the photo. It was a very gruesome sight, as you may imagine.
 
IKE said:
I guess I'm just not very photogenic because for some reason pictures of me always come out looking like the wanted posters at the Post Office but I'm rather proud of the picture below so I'd feel good about using it on FB.

Go ahead and admit it, I look pretty darn hot don't I ?

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Well....the shirt could use an iron....but then ya outta see mine...LOL !!!
 
CindyLouWho said:
Is this a friend or someone you don't know to well?
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Little more than an acquaintance, not quite a friend and probably never will be now.

I recently started having this person share a morning walk, I dress for the weather, she regards the jaunt as an excuse to shiver in barely there outfit with the ladies standing at attention. So she snaps a pic showing herself in a Kardashian type pose and outfit and here was I top heavy bundled in a hoodie jacket and thermal leggings, clodhopper sneakers, no makeup.

She called me vain. I cannot put here what I called her.
 
Is this person about 13? If so, her behavior is typical of a nasty kid of that age. If she is (physically) an adult, I would avoid her like the plague. She has serious problems.
 
Mizzkitt said:
Little more than an acquaintance, not quite a friend and probably never will be now.

I recently started having this person share a morning walk, I dress for the weather, she regards the jaunt as an excuse to shiver in barely there outfit with the ladies standing at attention. So she snaps a pic showing herself in a Kardashian type pose and outfit and here was I top heavy bundled in a hoodie jacket and thermal leggings, clodhopper sneakers, no makeup.

She called me vain. I cannot put here what I called her.
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Oh, Mizzkitt, now that you explain more, I don't think I'd give her any more thought considering her self-absorbed, name-calling lack of respect for you. She sounds perhaps, quite immature & insecure. Don't worry about the Facebook picture, everyone has good and bad pics of themselves....the people who really matter in your life know how beautiful you are, right?!:)
 
I would not share a walk or anything else with her. I would probably have grabbed her camera, deleted the pic and threw it on the ground. I don't do pics nor allow anyone else to unless I am okay with it. That's one reason I have not updated my avatar as I hate pics of myself.
 
Mizzkitt said:
Not your most flattering look and you told them not to take a picture. Then of course they have to post it on Facebook cause it might be good for a laugh.

How would you react?
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I run into this all the time with my wife. She is a beautiful woman,however she does not think so. In 38 years of marriage I can count how many times she has posed for a picture. We have had innumerable arguments when I have taken candid shots of her.

Alert..... The pictures aren't for you! They are a record of your life for your loved ones. Your loved ones that don't care that you have on a paint stained shirt, or your hair is wet, or your hands are muddy! Your loved ones do not know that person that is all gathered up for a formal portrait,they love the mess, the less than flattering look that is you!
Just think of the funerals you have been to. The story board of the persons life! You want nothing but a studio photo that is nothing but a caricature of you, or do you want your lifes story told by the people that love you in photographs.
Quit being shellfish!
 
OK I just read the whole thread. I did not realize you were talking about a particular instance.(By the way, could you forward a shot of the "LADIES")
I was just talking about pictures in general.
Teach me to talk without doing my homework!
 
I don't like to have my picture taken or worse yet posted on social media.

I would ask the person to delete the image and then I would delete the person from my social circle.

That's me but I gree with Robusta's comment. A mom, dad, grandparent should be happy to have their imperfect image captured with their children to help the children preserve memories.

To hell with what people might think or say, this is life as it should be!

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IKE said:
I guess I'm just not very photogenic because for some reason pictures of me always come out looking like the wanted posters at the Post Office but I'm rather proud of the picture below so I'd feel good about using it on FB.

Go ahead and admit it, I look pretty darn hot don't I ?

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And to answer.... yes. People have no right posting your picture without your permission.
 
Then of course they have to post it on Facebook cause it might be good for a laugh.

Let’s just say, they wouldn’t be laughing for long !
 
I'd be furious Mizzkitt, I'd make her delete the photo from her phone and facebook and not associate with her anymore at all. She showed you no consideration or respect, and putting it publicly online like that was really a slap in the face. She sounds like a real jerk, IMO. With friends like that, who needs enemies.....dump her, but if possible, make it right first and get the picture removed.
 
I 've heard that before Lara ... I always thought that was true . Then I got to wondering how the entertainment rags publish all those candid shots of stars. There must be some kind of "gray area" in the law. Very interesting thing to think about ! As for me,I'm not vain enough to worry about how I look in pictures.
 
We were just at the beach. My hair was wet and not combed, no makeup. It was my granddaughters birthday so I had a unicorn horn birthday hat on.
My husband was sitting next to me and taking a video of the kids. He aimed the camera at me as I turned to him and smiled.
When I saw it played back it was the most unattractive picture/video of me EVER taken! My hair looks like Medusa. We laughed so hard I almost peed my pants.
However, If that ever turned up on Facebook I would literally sue my husband for cruelty. That is if I hadn't killed him first.
I am sacrificing having that in the world for the sake of not deleting my granddaughter's birthday video but rue the day it ever goes public.
Heads will roll.
 
Public photography is an incredibly "grey" area. You can....you can't....you're allowed to....you're not allowed to....you can IF....you can't IF.

On one hand they say you take any photograph you want IF you're in a public area. Other the other hand, public bathrooms are "public areas" and you CAN'T photograph someone in the bathroom. You can't photograph on private property without the owner's permission, BUT you can stand on public property and photograph into the private property UNLESS (fill in the blank....there are several caveats, like using telephoto lens, etc.)

You also are not allowed to "misrepresent" a person. You can take a picture of a celebrity leaving a restaurant but you can't say "....after being asked to leave the restaurant" (unless that was true)…but then I guess that would fall under libel or slander.

Anyway, as I said.....grey area (even in color).
 

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