Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It is standard at all cricket matches here, and has been for a few years. Remember you are usually 100+ yards from the action, and still the policy persists. A lot of this has to do with media rights. Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Chris Saganich <chs2018@med.cornell.edu>wrote: > 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" > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >