Told to stop taking photos !

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Just to let you know, that turning up at an event looking like you know what you're doing with a camera could see you being asked to stop taking photos by officials of the meeting ...who have been ask to have a word in your ear by the "OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER" of the day !

Why do I say this , because its happened to me and I was only at the event to take pics for my own enjoyment HONEST !
The OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER even suggested that a must have been a "pro" touting for business because the camera gear looked expensive.
I suggested that he looked on e-bay and saw what "pro" looking camera gear could be bought for less than £1000... muppett ! :cuckoo:

The moral of this story is, dont take all your gear and dont look like a pro or you maybe asked to stop taking photos ! ::eek:

Anyone else ever been asked to "stop" taking photos ???

Paul
 
We Canonians use Canon gear Paul so we are given red carpet treatment:D
 
I dont stand for that. Would of kindly told the official to relay a message to the 'pro' asking him to stick his camera where the sun doesnt shine letting me take a photo of it.

Did you not tell him it was for personal use only?

King.
 
yeah i would tell them to get lost
 
You need to remember that you are probably on private property, they may well have the right to ask you to stop and even eject you if you refuse, so refuse politely!
 
Sheesh. This is happenng more and more these days. If you've a 'serious' looking camera they're down on you like a ton of bricks while people taking shots with little compacts and camera phones are ignored. :cuckoo:

It sounds like a not very confident pro responsible for the aggro on this occasion, but if you can try to keep as low a profile as possible -no tripods and big bags of gear with Canon or Nikon plasterd all over them. It sucks I know but it seems to be the way it is.

If I think I might be challenged, I take the 20D sans batter grip and just the the 50mm 1.4 with maybe the 17-40 in me pocket. Look like one of the crowd. ;)
 
If I think I might be challenged, I take the 20D sans batter grip and just the the 50mm 1.4 with maybe the 17-40 in me pocket. Look like one of the crowd.

cedric :thumbs: i know its not your best kit but that lot is still some serious kit ...:naughty:
its no point and shoot..

:geek: not happened to me yet but i suppose its only a matter of time..:bang:
 
Know I'm new here, but unless you're on private land, no-one can restrict you TAKING the shots - might be copyright/data protection issues to publish pics with peeps in them - permissions and so-on, consents etc, but I'd be tempted to go toe to toe with someone telling me NOT to shoot. Depends on circs, of course.
 
Not yet, though I thought it might happen a few weeks ago at an event. There was one official snapper and a few parents with camcorders/P&S's or phones, but as is always the way with events involving children, the form filling, etc that had to be done to be allowed a camera made even those thin on the ground. So, the only ones with 'gear' were the official guy and yours truly [only the d70s and 70-300 zoom for me]. I did get a few 'looks' off him and several times event officials came and stood close by and were making their presence felt, but as I was making it very obvious I was a mum of one child and with one particular club attending the event, nothing was said.

Which brings me to another point for the other women here - do you find that carrying/using loads of gear gets you more noticed than a fella doing the same? If my other half is lugging everything and playing with camera, no one bats an eyelid, but if I have it slung round my neck, I get plenty of stares at my chest regions...even when wrapped in winter layers :lol: I have started carrying it over my shoulder sometimes, just so its less obvious when not actually in front of my face ;)
 
I took photos at my daughters gym display by request of the club, everyone signed forms to agree to take photos and for thier child to be in photos, but one woman came up to me and demanded to see the pictures on my camera and she was adamant that i had taken photos with her daughter in them, despite there being a ruck of video cameras and mobile phones, point and shoots etc, but because I was on the display floor, she singled me out.

I asked her to show me all of her mobile phone pictures because my daughter was also in the display and she may have photographed her by mistake.....needless to say, she wasn't prepared to do it, just like I wasn't.

I think that anyone with a biggun is in trouble..camera that is...lol
 
i pulled out my camera at a wedding the other week, they [the pros] noticed...a 1d does that I guess, but had a pleasant chat with them and stayed out of their way, all was good. if a 'pro' came and told me to stop shooting I'd question them very hard to why the hell I should listen to them? people that approach me with hostility get the same back from me. only a very unprofessional person would feel threatened in that way...
 
you should have heard me shouting at the radio when Jeremy vine was discussing this a while back! I texted in too! It appears that there is no law to stop you taking photos in public places...just the public panic, why I dunno...I don't get it, I just don't get it. what is all the bl**dy fuss about? !
 
Yeah - you should've heard her! :lol:
 
monkeydave said:
If I think I might be challenged, I take the 20D sans batter grip and just the the 50mm 1.4 with maybe the 17-40 in me pocket. Look like one of the crowd.

cedric :thumbs: i know its not your best kit but that lot is still some serious kit ...:naughty:
its no point and shoot..
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Well yes I agree, but to the monkeys who usually jump on you at these places it looks quite a small camera so you can't really be 'serious' IYSWIM. :D
 
It's a bit like taking a tripod onto a National Trust site .... don't start me ..... Grrr! :razz: :bat: :rules:
 
So just to clear things up, so I know when to tell people to swivel if they ever dare to challenge my photo taking...

If you're on public property you can shoot whatever or whomever you like
You're not allowed to shoot into peoples houses
If you're on private property you need the consent of the property owner

Is this correct? :shrug:
 
you know what?...I think I'd really rather not take any photos at public events for fear of being approached...I would ge to too upset and too angry and my day would be ruined...I'd avoid it. How sad is that?
I still don't get this mass public hysteria over photgraphy in public places! GGrrrrrr
Does that mean I can't take photos at the seaside? Oh for goodness sake.....I'll get on with my knitting now, it's safer or is it? :naughty:
 
snappy said:
So just to clear things up, so I know when to tell people to swivel if they ever dare to challenge my photo taking...

If you're on public property you can shoot whatever or whomever you like
You're not allowed to shoot into peoples houses
If you're on private property you need the consent of the property owner

Is this correct? :shrug:
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A really useful document is This one - UK photographer's Rights... well worth keeping a copy in your bag
 
snappy said:
So just to clear things up, so I know when to tell people to swivel if they ever dare to challenge my photo taking...

If you're on public property you can shoot whatever or whomever you like
You're not allowed to shoot into peoples houses
If you're on private property you need the consent of the property owner

Is this correct? :shrug:
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who knows? :shrug:

I just know that on the Jeremy Vine show they said that there was no law to stop people taking photos in public places....

Those last two options are common sense aren't they? Mind you taking photos of pretty cottages could be seen as shooting into peoples houses...
 
snappy said:
Cheers Chuckles :beer:
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I shall have to print us a couple of copies. Been meaning to for a while now :(

(I've been told to write this after I was asked a very deep, probing and pertinent question)
 
Hmm, altho enlightening to a large extent, that document doesn't really deal with situations where another photographer has been contracted to work for a client. Does that photographer have any right to insist you don't take photo's if you're on public property, (or private property with consent of owner), and not a predefined "protected" area?
 
LOL. Street/public photography has got a really bad image now. It's largely down to people watching the paparazzi perform, with no regard whatsoever for the feelings or privacy of their victims. Then there's the whole p*** suspicion thing and we cop the backlash of all of it. :shrug:

Personally if i'm challenged by someone who's pic I've taken, I explain why I'm doing what I'm doing which usually satisfies them. Offering to send them a print usually helps a lot. ;)

If people really don't like it then I have no hesitation in deleting the pic for them - we aint the paparzzi after all.
 
snappy said:
Hmm, altho enlightening to a large extent, that document doesn't really deal with situations where another photographer has been contracted to work for a client. Does that photographer have any right to insist you don't take photo's if you're on public property, (or private property with consent of owner), and not a predefined "protected" area?
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What it really comes own to is if it's private property then the management/ owners can set any ground rules they like, and the legally correct answer is you really need to ask anyway in the first place. :shrug:
 
CT said:
What it really comes own to is if it's private property then the management/ owners can set any ground rules they like, and the legally correct answer is you really need to ask anyway in the first place. :shrug:
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So assuming you have the permission of the landowner/ event organiser you're bullet proof? And balls to everyone else :D
 
That would sound reasonable to me. :D
 
don't start me on the p*** suspicion thing...the public have been hyped up to such an extent that they don't really know what it is they are affeared of...now if it was naked football I could see a problem.... hmmm
 
snappy said:
So assuming you have the permission of the landowner/ event organiser you're bullet proof? And balls to everyone else :D
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Until...... you want to publish some photos of any people there (a big[gish] crowd is ok apparently) .... in which case you need a 'model release' form..... you should have some of those in yer bag also....

I know.... I was gonna print some of those as well later ;)
 
Hmmmm naked ladies football. I never could stand the game., but... :naughty:
 
snappy said:
Excellent. I shall quote the Honourable Judge CT if ever I have any troublemakers :rules: :lol:
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Did anybody tell you he was "the hanging Judge"? :lol:
 
snappy said:
Excellent. I shall quote the Honourable Judge CT if ever I have any troublemakers :rules: :lol:
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Just remember though it's not always that straightforward. Take your average school sports day as an example which is a private event. Before the head will give you permission you need to to have the written consent of the parents of any child who might appear in your photos. In practice that means all of 'em.
 
CT said:
Just remember though it's not always that straightforward. Take your average school sports day as an example which is a private event. Before the head will give you permission you need to to have the written consent of the parents of any child who might appear in your photos. In practice that means all of 'em.
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oh for goodness sake!
what ARE they scared of?

I really must go to bed...bet i can't sleep and will have to come back and see what's happening on this thread...nunight for now :bonk:
 
CT said:
Just remember though it's not always that straightforward. Take your average school sports day as an example which is a private event. Before the head will give you permission you need to to have the written consent of the parents of any child who might appear in your photos. In practice that means all of 'em.
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Who dreams up these stupid rules. Honestly.

Supposing the child(ren) in question were on a beach and happened to be in shot. The parents have no legal right to get stroppy then?

This is precisely why children should be outlawed. They're a damn nuisance :lol:
 
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