Photographs of a sensitive nature

[Bumblelion]

Does anyone know what the legal stance is on getting photographs that are of a sensitive nature developed?

To briefly summarise, my camera did the rounds at a party on Saturday night and it has come to light that a photograph (I believe it is only one) of a sensitive nature (naked "aroused" man) was taken with my camera. I would normally just throw the film away but it was my DD2 first birthday last Thursday and it has got photographs of her first birthday on the film so I don't want to lose the whole film.

I seem to recall that there is only a problem with getting photos developed in Boots (or is that only of naked children) but I also recall a stance about sending pornographic material through the post (although what happens with orders from men's magazines - but that is another cause for conversation).

Would any photo shop object to the photographs? Are they just put in a machine and they machine prints them off and then they are put back in their jacket (i.e. no one person individually checking each photograph).

This may seem trivial but I don't want to do anything "illegal" and have the embarrassment of being cautioned (or whatever).

Any thoughts/suggestions most welcomed!

Oo-er, bumblelion!

Is it just one picture (as far as you know)? Could you explain the problem at the developers and ask them to remove the print (and even destroy the neg if it makes them happier?)

Someone will look at them anyway, they are printed fairly automatically but are given a once-over by a human to make sure they aren't too light/dark/pink/green etc (at least they are supposed to be, I'm not sure it happens to mine!)

HTH...

Bumblelion > when I was a student it used to be my job to 'grade' photos. This was overnight at a Kodak factory. I had two lines of photos whizzing past me ...usually quite fast, I was meant to check for quality, but also for anything really dubious. I stopped the line whenever I saw something worrying. It was a very busy factory, developing Supasnaps, Techno and Boots and all sorts of other outlets photo's. The thing is it was so busy that in reality, a lot of this dross ended up getting through...due to the constraints of the job. and believe me, I saw some extreme things in many of those photo's. Its amazing that people don't realise all these photos are looked at. In reality, the only thing that they were worried about was anything that looked like child pornography, or peeping tom's. So the probability is, if you put it in for anything above one hour developing, there will be no problem whatsoever. If you're really worried, you could ask to have it done in an hour and inform them of your worries, I'm sure they'd understand....are you prepared for the embarrassment tho?

Why don't you send them off to be developed Bumblelion ie Kodakpost, Truprint etc - bit cheaper, and you haven't got to feel embarassed picking them up from an outlet

Leese> yep...we did all them, bit of a swizz really. They all go to the Kodak processing place and everyone gets charged different prices. The only work that got more special attention was Boots developing. I have always trusted Boots since this experience.

What I am suggesting is, either put them through a cheapo processing company, and they will go through no problems, but you are compromising on quality, and horror of horrors, actually losing all your photos and negs. I saw this happen with many of the cheapo's. Safest bet is to fess up to your worries and get them done by a good company. They won't censor you, they won't worry at all in fact, so your dillema is just weighing up the risk of losing them to taking the embarassment. I assure you these people have seen much much worse than an aroused willy amongst the photo's they process!!! I could tell you some stories, but I won't!

I know someone who took a photo of herself giving her dh a BJ, and the company would not develop the photos, or give them to her or something. I can't believe that she was that naive to try to have them developed!

On the other hand, I collected pack of photos for work years ago, which were meant to be of buildings, but I was given someone else's photos by mistake. In the pack was one of a man on an exercise bike, from behind, with his shorts pulled down, exposing a pair of bo**ocks! Obviously not a big enough pair to be spotted by the checkers

my dh had a horrible holiday job at a cheap photo developer, the porno ones were normally sent back ina plain brown envelope with a letter saying they would not process them next time. But they got a lot of 'readers wives' shots that no-one did anything about. Perhaps you could take the film to a local photgrapher explain the situ ask thenm to destroy that negative is there is one.

This situation sort of happened to me a year or two ago, Bumblelion, except I didn't know anyone had used my camera. I sent my film to be processed and when it came back I eventually realised that one was of what a chap has under his kilt (Scottish wedding). Saddo that I am, I didn't even realise what it was!! I peered at the pic over the breakfast table, thinking 'I don't recall taking any photos of someone breastfeeding.' (Yes, honest, that's what I 'saw' in all that flesh!!) and then threw it across the room in shock when it dawned on me!

Anyway, there were no repercussions from the photo people and I suspect that if there are other pics such as party or wedding ones they would realise that this is the sort of thing pranksters might do.

PS DS1 thinks my camera was 'borrowed' by someone he knows and he suggested I sent the photo to this lad's mum, to teach him a lesson! But I couldn't be so cruel.....

Thanks for all your constructive comments. I am not worried about the embarrassment, just don't want to do anything illegal. I think I will send them off to Truprint (athough I don't want triple photographs of that one!).

The thing is the party I was at on Saturday night was a work's 50th anniversary bash (my work!) and the photo is obviously one of the employees or their partners. Perhaps I should post it on our internal intranet and see if anyone can recognise who it is - only joking, of course.

Bumblelion you obviously go to much more interesting parties than I do