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Of late, it seems there’s been a bit of bad press associated with photographers. Anyone with a camera is frequently seen as either a pervert or a security risk. And if you set up a tripod, well, you must be a professional working for a company, and you need to pay fees to shoot here. If not, we’ll call Security and you’ll have to leave (yes, I’ve had that experience). It gets tiring after a while.
Where has all of this come from? I spent a very pleasant morning today at the Photo Marketing Association / Photo Imaging Council of Australia Exhibition / Show at Darling Harbour in Sydney [link] learned about some products I was interested in, sat in on a seminar, and ran into old friends but most of all was able to “talk the talk” with people of a like mind; people who had similiar insights and ideas to me. And with the sometimes negative press that photographers can get, it was a grand feeling to know that here was a gathering of people promoting all aspects of photography and imaging, from high-end digital backs to magazines, from very large format printers to retouching pens. Wandering about, I couldn’t help but feel how great it was to be among my own kind.
It’s somewhere we all need to be occasionally.
- Warren B.
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I personally - and I know a few models too - have run across some photographers who have been less than 100% virtuous recently and it's got a few hackles raised... But there are so many good ones out there that it does the world of good when you find one and it melts away so much of the insecurity and annoyance at the idiots. But the security thing is getting worse and worse - seems if you've got a camera that goes around your neck and not your wrist, you're deemed to be a "commercial" - god help you if you have a TRIPOD! What next? The tourists at the fish markets with their Canon EOS whatevers being told they can't photograph dead salmon because it MUST be for profit??? I get tired just hearing about yet ANOTHER over zealous security guard running a photographer off a patch or confiscating cameras or all sorts of bollocks like that! Perhaps a Hawaiian shirt or a G'Day Mate! t-shirt and claim to be a tourist? Tourist seem to be forgiven for a lot of these things, but us locals get short shrift!
But I digress. I accept the need for a bit of security, but it would be nice if the security industry learned to ask what the photographer was doing, or who they were, first. And why can't they be polite about it? You get more flies with honey......
If I work in an office, and have an expensive mountain bike that I ride on the weekend, that doesn't make me a professional mountain bike rider; if I have a big car that I trick up with alloy wheels and lots of racing extras, that doesn't make me a professional racing driver; WHY then does having a quality camera and equipment suddenly make me a professional photographer??
Alright, I'll get off the soap-box now.
Oh, and while I think of it; "Canon EOS whatevers..." You'll keep!
The security industry is LAUGHABLE! They're ill trained hunks of flesh who are too scared to actually DO anything in a real situation where they are needed because they're afraid they'll get sued. I once stood and watched at least THREE beefy security guards stand and watch my (admittedly very ballsy and no nonsense) manager have to deal with some 6'6" drunk ball of muscle get right in her face because she cut him off all by herself because these idiots wouldn't step in and actually tell him to sit down and shut up or else he'd be tossed! So instead, they get their rocks off picking on the little folk who aren't doing anything wrong!
Canon EOS whatevers covers every base - well every Canon EOS base!