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Technically no-one has to ask you permission. It's worth contacting the photographer anyway as he might be feeling generous.
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Considering your face is clearly visible, I'd contact him and say you'd be willing to sell your image rights for a decent fee, and sign a model release form. Then he can sell it for commercial use too, which is way more money. He'd probably want that.
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Perfectly reasonable. Same thing happened to me and family for the natural trust magazine. We asked and he sent us all the images for free (they were going for around £100-200)
That said he was taking photos of us when we asked so may have an issue making him believe you.
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A photo of me riding my bike showed up in an online magazine article... reverse google image searching traces the image back to Getty.
The photo is far better than any of the official photos from the event and it would make a nice memento from the day. Is it cheeky to contact the photographer and ask for a high res copy? I'm always confused about ownership of image rights, but the guy clearly makes his living from sports photography so I feel a bit bad about asking him for a free copy... On the other hand, he's clearly managed to sell a photo of me at least once and I don't remember anyone asking me permission.