A friendly reminder to parents and dancers: when posting photos to your personal Facebook page or other social media sites, please be sure to follow common courtesy and protocol by crediting the photographer in instances where you did not take the photos yourself. For example, if you have posted Oireachtas photos taken by Cheryl G on your Facebook page, please be courteous and credit her as the photographer. Thank you!
Cheryl; we greatly appreciate your beautiful photographs and your generosity in sharing them!
I think that not only should people be courteous and respectful of photographers but also to the families of the girls/people that are in the photo they are perhaps uploading to facebook. As we all know, there is an increasing amount of awareness around the dangers of facebook so it is entirely possible that some families feel very strongly against having their children being on ANYONE’s facebook site. Once they are up there and the photo is tagged it will never go away.
ReplyDeleteJust something for people to keep in mind...perhaps asking permission of all people in the photo before uploading would be a good idea?