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Sam Hassas wrote:
vuilang wrote:
I found it unreasonalbe/unethical to pose (for modeling purposes) on someone's graveyard.
is she looking down at something? grass?
Well, the graveyard was real and yes there were dead bodies in the ground but they were all from the 1800's. I'd say 2 out of 10 had legdable writing on the headstones. Most were wood. Does that make it any more ethical.
She's looking down a bunch of weeds. Dead boutique? Corpse Bride? Graveyard?
~Sam
I'm not sure "ethical" is the word I'd use to describe if shooting in a cemetery is appropriate or not. The residents obviously won't care what you do there, and nobody is going to get hurt if you do. I suppose it's one of those things that everyone has to decide for themselves... For me personally, I wouldn't do this type of shoot in a cemetery (even an old one). Just out of respect for the dead....for me old cemeteries are usually quiet places you can reflect on the lives of the people there, and the world they inhabited. Once upon a time they were living, breathing people just like you and me...they laughed, they cried, they loved. At some point they passed on, and were laid to rest there by people who cared about them. That is the last place the went, and the last place they will ever be. I think that deserves a certain amount of respect...
I have gone and shot a couple of historic graveyards...the one in Butte, Montana (well, one of them-there are several), has graves dating back into the 1880s. Also took a bunch of pictures at Elkhorn Ghost Town and took a few at the cemetery there...a very sad place. A large number of the graves there are children who died in a diphtheria epidemic in 1888.
I don't know...like I said, it's up to the photographer to decide what they're comfortable with. The images from the graveyard are fantastic no doubt, but I wouldn't personally be comfortable shooting there... YMMV, of course.
Edited on Apr 13, 2009 at 07:30 PM · View previous versions
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