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#1871 2008-05-29 15:03 GMT |
what are some bad reactions you have gotten from ppl while taking random photos?
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#1872 2008-05-29 21:33 GMT |
hello
Rick you mean taking photos of crowds and people or photos of Landscapes and other things and people try to stick their nose into it?
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#1874 2008-05-30 11:41 GMT |
photos of people or/ landscapes with ppl in them? basically any negative reactions you might have experienced in your career
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#1884 2008-06-02 16:01 GMT |
wow guys , I am surprised nobody has anything to say on this ?
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#1886 2008-06-03 08:19 GMT |
Nobody has nothing to say because we are all very nice guys on here and could not possibly do anything that would cause a negative reaction anywhere.
It is well known that negative reactions are triggered mainly by the people who use that other site
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#1887 2008-06-03 10:24 GMT |
whenever people see me taking photos of anything they start looking at me as if i am stealing apparently carrying a camera here in my country is worse than firing a machine gun
once i went out of the city to photograph an old deserted train station i was interrogated for 2 hours by Hizbollah militants
other time i wanted to photograph inside a park the security refused to let me do so unless i get a license from the municipality
other time i took a photo of a street at night the army told me it is forbidden
also i was photographing inside an old ruined house and the police came and stopped me i told them is it possible to go to the toilet here and photography is not allowed
all in the name of security but people who are spies can get a smaller camera than mine to take pics and no one will notice them
i read on other forums about worse reactions than this like pointing guns at photographers
most people or even police officers and military believe that the bigger the camera the more threat it causes so if you carry an slr it is a problem but a point and shoot is ok which is nonsense
sorry for the long post
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#1888 2008-06-03 12:39 GMT |
Man, thats seems like a place to avoid. The term i'm going out on a shoot takes on a whole new meaning there.
I have just thought of a couple of incidents where I have got some adverse reaction.
The first one was in the a shopping mall in Cardiff when a security guard asked me to stop taking photos, I did not know the reason for this and I did not argue, I just put my camera back in its bag and left him, lying there.
The second incident was in the Valley of Kings in Egypt inside a tomb of an Egyptian pharoah whose name eludes me at the moment.Photography was not allowed in there so I tried to sneak a shot from the hip.Unfortunately the security guard heard the mirror flipping up and threatened to confiscate my camera. What an a idiotic thing to do and at my age too.Luckily for me, money talks in Egypt and I discreetly showed him a twenty pound note and he backed off. As we were leaving the tomb I slipped the bribe into his hands which he quickly snatched from me and put in his pocket.
We both left each other with a big grin on our faces,he was grinning because he had got some money and I was grinning because I had got my shot, kept my camera and switched the twenty pound note for a five pound note without the greedy little bugger realizing.
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#1889 2008-06-03 15:57 GMT |
i do not know if people are becoming stupid after 9/11 or Alkaeda poisoned the water with stupidity substance but people should know that there is a hobby called photography and if the photographer is not taking their naked photos without them accepting then it is okay especially that the same photos we are taking were taken by some other photographer
that fact i always stress but people do not understand
for example if someone wants to photograph the British parliament and a police stops him for an unknown reason this is funny because its photos are all over the net
see how stupid the people are what building or seen is more critical than this building if security is the problem
same thing with the Egyptian security the only thing that attracts visitors to Egypt are the ruins yet he is trying to bother you
good and quick response to this problem i would also pay for a photo
by the way davels our country is a great tourist but you know there is always someone who can ruin your day but foreigners are always welcomed
check my site www.moogy.tk
you will find a lot of good places for photography
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#1891 2008-06-04 16:53 GMT |
its funny how taking pictures in Egypt cuazes u problems
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