Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.rec.nude Subject: Re: Photography and Naturism Message-ID: <7147@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 12:44:34 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7147 Posted: Wed Jan 9 12:44:34 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 06:42:10 EST References: <303@wjvax.UUCP> <1922@sun.uucp> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 26 > > Here we're trying to make nudity acceptable, > > provide an air of normalcy to the shedding of one's clothes, and here > > comes some complete stranger who yells at you (if you happen to be male) > > for bringing a camera. I usually bring a camera to the beach. Now > > I'm afraid to take it along if I happen to be going to one that is clothes > > optional. > > Do you also cary a pile of model-release forms, and make sure you hunt down > each and every person you take/took/want-to-take pictures of and get a signed > release to have the photo? If not, are you willing to pull the exposed film > out of your camera and expose the whole role to sunlight at the first > request to do so? If not, then you are violating the spirit of privacy > associated with the clothes optional area. > > Sunny Excuse me, but I (as a photographer) do not need to get release forms signed from people in my pictures as long as I don't intend to use them for anything other than my personal photo album. Shooting pictures at a clothes optional (or for that matter at a normal minimally-clothed beach) is about as good taste as taking pictures of my neighbors house with a telephoto lens. But there isn't a whole lot you can do about it. A public place is a public place. If people are going to "see" you, you are going to have to endure the chance that people may photograph you. You should expect not to ever see those pictures somewhere else however. -Ron