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Comment on 5,000 ideas for good photography by The Project begins | #Project365 Year1-Pic1

The Project begins | #Project365 Year1-Pic1 — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:30:52 +0000

[...] started on January 1st or something. Today I was inspired again after reading Gary Gardiner’s 5000 ideas for good photography. After Gary retired from The Associated Press he started a project with the idea of doing a picture [...]

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Comment on IPTC, EXIF and your photos by Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:00:26 +0000

Thanks for the detailed information. I have not been diligent with regards to watermarking images. I need to reevaluate my workflow to make sure I do.

Comment on Learn to levitate by Wayne Frost

Wayne Frost — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 05:47:58 +0000

Instead of levitating, you can always bring a cantilevered construction crane with a hanging baske and set it up on the sidewalk. That will show them.

Comment on Quick, call the cops! by Gary Gardiner

Gary Gardiner — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:11:13 +0000

Easton is a different animal. Its security is everywhere and quickly moves to interrupt anyone who appears to be shooting something more than a family snapshot. I’ve tried every trick in the book to keep them from stopping me. It has never worked. I’ve given up.

Perhaps when the 12meg iPhone arrives it will be possible. Then they will probably make us surrender our phones at the city limits.

Comment on Quick, call the cops! by jacqueline combs

jacqueline combs — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:43:45 +0000

This sounds like a camera commercial to me. From my viewpoint, the guy was just doing his job, as there HAD been a complaint. Who could have known the intent of the cameraman was innocermnt? Also, if we are to allow God to fight our battles, we shouldn’t call others freakish or idiots.

Comment on Quick, call the cops! by jacqueline combs

jacqueline combs — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:39:38 +0000

This sounds a little like a camera commercial to me. I don’t think the man in question who looked into the matter was either an idiot or his behavior freakish. he was looking into a matter that had been reported. Is that not his job? The camera guy knew what he was doing but no one else could have known his intent. Also, if we are to allow God to fight our battles, it is unseemly to call others freakish or idiots.

Comment on Quick, call the cops! by Darrek Robertson

Darrek Robertson — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:41:00 +0000

I went to Easton Town Center, a public shopping center, to do a shoot when they first opened. I was taking a photo of a friend in a blake belt martial arts outfit, holding my portfolio. The idea was to get him jumping and holding the case for a self- promotional piece. The security told me to stop, that it was private property. A columbus police officer also arrived and confirmed the security’s position to stop. The cop told me I could be arrested for disorderly conduct. I took my shot, then left.
Moral of my story, Shoot first, apologize later.

Comment on Quick, call the cops! by Wayne Frost

Wayne Frost — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:06:40 +0000

I had a slightly different experience Tuesday evening.

I was made to feel very unwelcome on the property of an outdoor shopping mall last night. I was standing on one side of a street on this property, photographing a business across the street (the building was replicating early to mid 20th century architecture, and they had a retro-looking neon light that had caught my eye). The security person told me I could take a personal photograph of my wife standing in front of the building, but that I was not permitted to take any pictures that did not have someone I knew in them.

You can’t call a policy like that as being about homeland security, it is all about a commercial enterprise claiming the right to control use of their image, whether the image captured identifies the owning entity or not, no matter what the context of the image captured might be. I understand that a commercial enterprise has the right to protect its assets, but one of the primary assets of a shopping mall is the good will of the public who would chose to do business there. It is ironic that the developers and management of these properties do everything they can think of to entice the public to visit their facility, which includes public spaces that encourage lingering, and then run off a member of the public who has responded to their efforts.

The security officer behaved professionally and when I challenged his authority to restrict my photography on a “public street” he confirmed with his supervisor that we were on private property, as the street was the property of the mall. (When he told me this, in my mind I knew I then didn’t have a leg to stand on). It still did not sit very well with me and I told him he should tell his management that
I had previously been happy shopping and dining on the property and probably would have done so again in the future, but that his company’s asinine policy had changed all that.

Sometimes a corporation’s right to totally control how their assets are used should be temperated with some human decency.

Comment on Quick, call the cops! by Danielle Daniels

Danielle Daniels — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:38:22 +0000

Thanks for the information, Gary. I’ve yet to have this happen but figure it’s only a matter of time.