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 05/14/2002 09:35:00 AM · #26
Yeah, I got nabbed at a scrap metal recycling plant. Wanted to take some shots of some crushed cars that were all lined up upside-down, all nice and neat like, ready to be lifted into the shredder-melter-crusher thingy. I didn't even get close enought to shoot one shot before I had the lot manager on my ass, escorting me out. I mean puhhlease, it's freaking scrap metal for petes sake!! Couldn't help but wonder if this was some kind of mob operation, and there were dead bodies in those cars.

Now THAT would have been a photo!

 05/14/2002 09:50:32 AM · #27
Unless you'd have ended up in one of the trunks that is, Moondoggie! ;)

I have learned I should have cropped my pic better; too much going on that distracts from the subject. I was simply caught up in the color of it and while it was taken in macro mode I should have isolated the main subject more.
 05/14/2002 06:01:44 PM · #28
I actually wasn't in the mall. The carnival is a separate entity and was set up in the parking lot. It was one of the carnival guys who wanted to know how many pictures I had taken because he said I had to pay a dollar each! Of course there weren't any signs posted that said anything about cameras.
The parking lot might have been private, but he certainly wasn't a representative of the owner. I understand that anyone can deny permission to take pics on their property, but what would be the reason at a carnival?
 05/14/2002 06:18:41 PM · #29
I think the "dollar a pic" thing is just greed, but think about it this way. The owners of the carnival obviously had permission (and most likely paid) to use that private property. They put time and money into the carnival, and they do own the rights to whatever is presented there. Think you could go to a show on Broadway and just start taking pictures? Shakespeare in the Park is another story. I'm certainly not a fan of restricting photographers' access to events, but it is legitimate.
 05/14/2002 07:08:06 PM · #30
let's see. . . 'opportunism,' and 'fear of documentation of liability'? : )

Originally posted by indigo997:
I understand that anyone can deny permission to take pics on their property, but what would be the reason at a carnival?

* This message has been edited by the author on 5/14/2002 8:10:13 PM.
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