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After a bit of advice. I recently went to a vintage car run to document the event and obviously captured a lot of number plates in the process.

Im planning on putting all my photographs onto my website and also making a book which I will be selling and forwarding the proceeds to the charity that the event was in aid of, British Heart Foundation, which has all been agreed with the event organisers.

I did speak to a few of the car owner and they were ok with me printing plates but obviously I couldnt speak to everyone there.

Should I blank the plates, and potentially ruin the shot or leave them all in and face any consequences after, hoping that the fact that its in aid of charity will come to my defence?;)

I feel this is an all or nothing asin if I blank one plate, I either need to blank them all or exclude it from the book all together.

As far as Im aware there is no legal obligation for me to blank any plates at all, however Im a nice guy and dont want to upset anyone and also I am unsure if there was any stipulation within the literature that said anything along the lines of 'upon signing up to the event you are aware that photographs of you, your car and number plate may be printed'. Ive emailed the organisers though to see if there was anything in there though.


Any advice would be much appreciated.
 
with modern cars I could understand it, however I doubt you get a lot of car thieves trying to clone a car from the 1940's :)

Just leave them :)
 
It's rather nice that you don't want to upset anyone, and we could do with more of that attitude in general. But perhaps it's a bit OTT to even consider blanking out the number plates. As soon as you walk down any busy road you're likely to see thousands of number plates in a pretty short span of time. And everyone displaying one is legally obliged to do so.

Forget it, take lots and lots of pics and enjoy it!

cheers
 
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Harvey_nikon said:
with modern cars I could understand it, however I doubt you get a lot of car thieves trying to clone a car from the 1940's :)

Just leave them :)
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You'd be surprised, some of the stories Ive heard with ways of getting these old cars through their MOT's haha

Ok thanks. Everything can stay on schedule then :)
Ill post them up when Ive done them all.
 
I blank out number plates that are readable. On vintage plates/special photographs for print etc. perhaps you could clone the plate into another one if you have the time (re-arrange numbers/letters or the like)

Bill Roberts said:
As soon as you walk down any busy road you're likely to see thousands of number plates in a pretty short span of time.
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It is easier for the car ringer to find a suitable car to clone whilst Googling in the privacy of their own home, than wandering the streets and hoping to find a car of the right make and model. (though both practices do go on)

Agreed about the vintage cars being less likely ringer targets though.
 
People getting uptight about plates is ridiculous really, it's not like a piece of private information is it.... you drive round with it proudly displayed on the front and back of your car, there are number plate recognition systems all over the place grabbing it for various reasons already, plus there's not an awful lot you can do with someone's registration... and getting plates made is more difficult these days. Oh and -halli-... cloning or 'twinning' is a totally different thing to 'ringing'
 
I just can't undertand why on earth people blank out number plates of their own car let alone on a picture with many plates - for one thing the photos always then look odd and as everyone else has said it's hardly tricky to find a real one !
 
A couple of years ago, some scrotes went into the car park at work and nicked around a dozen no. plates from various cars. It was 24 hrs before one workmate even realised his had been removed.
 
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