Originally Posted by
Cybrarian
Bree123 has a good idea, take a picture with a black/white setting (first tell the LQS people or whoever owns the quilt you're looking at why you are taking the picture.
Actually, I usually don't actually take a photo exactly because of copyright. I just look at it through the viewfinder & make my decision that way. Since I'm not actually snapping pictures, so far all the shop owners have been fine with me doing that and I usually don't worry about asking for permission unless it's a store I've never visited or the salesperson seems overly aggressive.
Every so often, though, I do take photos. I sent some to my 3-year old niece once (via my sister) so she could pick out which fabrics she liked best from a selection of my choosing. I had tried live facetiming with her, but the connection was not strong enough so I kept losing her. The shop owner thought it was so sweet she said that even though she normally doesn't allow photos, that she'd make an exception.
I deleted all my copies of the photos in front of her, but, of course, they always exist in cyberspace so some artists/business people universally prohibit all photography, whether of patterns, fabrics, samples, or whatnot so if you are actually taking photographs -- definitely ask & get permission first!
