There's something called "tacit permission," such as when the person knows you're making a photograph but you've not specifically asked permission to do so. FWIW, in almost all of my photos the person knows they're being photographed.
IIRC, the woman in the photo you mentioned saw that I had a camera when I sat beside her, and suspected that she was being photographed. But it was a while ago and I don't recall all the details of how I made the pic ... I believe the photo in question is on one of my other computers. If someone really wants to see it, I'll look for it. BTW, this brings up an interesting question that may arise from a discussion in another thread, that of using a telephoto lens. If the photographer feels that some sort of permission is needed before taking a photo, then the use of long lenses would be unacceptable. Shel > [Original Message] > From: Jerome Reyes > > How acceptable is it to take pictures of people without asking for > > permission? > > Joaquim, > > Your question instantly reminded me of a discussion that took place just > under 2 years ago here started by Shel, entitled "The morality of taking a > photograph". It started from a photo of an obese woman that Shel posted, > entitled "bigeater". That discussion may hold the pdml record as, if you > check the archives, you'll see that the discussion took off and continued > for over ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY emails (crazy!!!). > > Anyhow, the short answer / consensus that *I* got from that discussion was > that it simply depends on your intentions as the photographer, not to > mention your intended use of the photo. > > The entire discussion starts here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/pentax-discuss@pdml.net/msg148946.html > > Enjoy <g> > > > PS... The link on Shel's page has since been made inactive... but if you > were truly interested, perhaps he would be so kind as to let you sneak a > peak. Best regards, > > - Jerome
