CHAT THREAD for the weekend competition 21st/22nd November 2009 - STREET LIFE

[Sarasocke]

Sorry about splitting your instructions, Darren, the posts crossed.

[Delamanda]

[HinFrance]

Originally Posted by beauxreflets

I will see what I can do too

Though it is not quite straight forward as you may think, with Privacy Laws in France.
http://www.alienor.org/bibliotheque/...hno/point1.htm

Going to need some inspiration to spring up this weekend

The rules are quite straightfoward. You can take pictures of anyone or anything not considered sensitive from a public place, such as a highway. You cannot publish images of 'identifiable' individuals without their permission with two very big exceptions that you can drive a horse and cart through - these are public interest and reportage. 'Art' definitely comes under reportage.

Think about it; if these exceptions did not exist there would be no French newspapers, magazines or current affairs on TV. Yet all of them thrive.

I sometimes ask, but usually don't because asking makes people ham up. Although hardly anyone doesn't want their picture taken, they see it as a form of flattery.

'Occupez vous de vos onions' works quite nicely when challenged, I find. Usually I must admit, prefaced by c'est un endroit publique et mes images sont mes affaires. I suppose it helps that I am 6'2" and foreign. You can always revert to je ne comprends pas.

Check out my 'people' stream over on flickr , well over half of them street shots, this one being my favourite:



So take a deep breath and go for it.

[Sarasocke]

Del - the back slash on the final url is on the wrong side of the bracket.

[Sarasocke]

Posh shot btw

[Mark Ellis]

Darren, can you make your screenshots clickable to the big versions? I can't read them.

[Delamanda]

Joy oh joy! I'm back in the competition - Carol, Darren, thank you both soooo much. Sorry, but I'm very technologically challenged. The combination of the screen shots and the bit to paste has done it though - I shall now save all this somewhere safe for future reference.

Thanks,

Del

[Sarasocke]

Well done Del !
Yeah !

Your photo really is posh tho

[bsmith]

Here is an idea for the creative among us to create a "HOW TO" you can record your voice and screen activity with this free screen recording program called Cam Studio http://camstudio.org/

I would give it a try but I'm very very busy just now, any good speakers out there that could record them and post them as tutorials.

Bob

[Delamanda]

I won't volunteer - I probably won't even be able to access it without help!