Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yea, I was witness to a similar event last Thursday. Richie Havens played a free concert in downtown Brooklyn in a small plaza. The coordinators asked that concert goers to restrict taking photographs to the first two (or three) numbers, (ie crowing around the stage being annoying with big cameras for the whole show.) They were explicit in citing those "professional cameras with the large lenses" as being of most concern. For the most part people came to the stage snapped a couple picts and went back to their seat, except one guy, who after about 6 or so songs was politely asked to finish-up. Well what a fuss he made, bla, bla, public place, I'm not a professional, and refused to move. Like out of spite switched his camera to burst mode or something and became even more confrontational. The the concert coordinators had no real authority to remove the guy from a public place so they dropped it. I noticed he eventually became bored and decided enjoying Havens was better then photographing him. Question: This restriction of "professional cameras with big lenses" seems to be a new policy around here At 01:51 PM 8/11/2008, you wrote: >I wasn't going to post this, because I figured someone else would. In the >206 comments to Hawk's initial blog post (when I went to it) one was from >someone who proported to be one of the two SFMOMA employees who escorted >the photographer from the premises. He stated that Mr. Hawk was asked to >stop photographing ten times not for taking photos in the atrium, but for >what the employees believed was perching on a balcony and taking a >photograph down a staff members amply filled blouse. Whether or not this >was actually the case (to the untrained eye a large aperture wide angle >lens at the appropriate angle for capturing a large room can probably look >like a super-telephoto pointed in a strange direction) it sounds like a >reasonable starting point for a flare-up. It also appears from reading a >few of his blog posts that he can be a confrontation waiting for an event. >And the fact that he continued photographing after being asked to stop ten >times suggests to me not that the atrium of SFMOMA was in such desperate >need of being photographed at that exact moment, but that he was looking >for a fight. > >There are photographs that it's a journalists duty to go to the mat to >get. The already well photographed atrium of SFMOMA probably isn't, IMHO, >one of those. > >kc > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Chris Saganich, M.S. Senior Physicist, Office of Health Physics Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York Presbyterian Hospital chs2018@med.cornell.edu http://intranet.med.cornell.edu/research/health_phys/ Ph. 212.746.6964 Fax. 212.746.4800 Office A-0049 "I am the radiation"