Couple of days ago I was reading newspaper in the morning and came across a the article of teenager regretting the images they post online.
(The arcile was in Helsingin Sanomat the biggest newspaper in Finland. Im a huge fan of old fashion newspapers and seldomly read online papers.)
It was a small peace about some kids taking pics of each other with a idiotic text on their tops. The images went online and it proved to be almost impossible to get them offline. There was also a small survey about the issue and it stated that 25% (figure might be wrong here) of the teenagers have the same problem. They have images online that they wish would not be there.
The news did not suprise me at all. Hapens to thirthy something people also. A fellow showed a pic that he had taken of some frozen plant that looked like a dick, even put his ©-sign under it. He was upset when the image found its way to a third party site and demanded through several emails that they take off the site because its copyrighed! Yeah, right. I could not help laughing. I understood why he shot the pic and even why he posted online, but why on earth did he put his name under it?! Man, it looks like dick, thats why shot it, its funny so its not a big deal if it ends up on a comedy site, unless it had your name under it…
I digress. But the point being that why is it so diffucult for folks to moderate the stuff they put online?!
It should not come as a suprise to anyone born at the 70′s and after that ‘what you put on the internet, stays on the internet!’
Does this has anything to do with me? No. Im very carefull of what I post online. They might be crappy photos – and more about that later – but they are not harmfull to anyone.
I do not ask a permission to post the pics online during the photoshoot. I think its very clear that I will do it unless the model spesificly says no. There is one exception. Kids! I do not post pictures of kids on my blog without the parents consent. Even if I shoot the portrait from their request I still ask the premision seperetly to post the pics on my blog.
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Well thats enough of that, moral lecture of sorts.. Its too clear that I haven’t shot anything in a while now…