Ever been yelled at for taking pictures?

tr0gd0o0r · Feb 20, 2005

If you look the part, play the student card, it usually works pretty well. People love helping students

Digital Matt · Feb 20, 2005

Feds don't like helping anyone

I tried that card. It may well have gotten me out of losing my camera I suppose, but didn't win me my shots back.

steve817 · Feb 21, 2005

Digital Matt said:
Feds don't like helping anyone I tried that card. It may well have gotten me out of losing my camera I suppose, but didn't win me my shots back.

I would have had to go home and recover those images off of my card out of spite.

Rob · Feb 21, 2005

I find it really funny how some people can get soooo angry when you're just taking a picture of their building. They wouldn't bat an eyelid at someone urinating round the back... but taking a picture.... I'm a very bad man.

Still, I wouldn't advise taking pictures of the MI6 building from the pavement outside, especially if you wear a turban. I suspect you'd get quite a rapid response.

Bob_McBob · Feb 21, 2005

I can't believe everyone gives in so easily. No security guard has the right to make you delete your photos, or detain you for taking them. They rely on fear and deceit to terrorize people into believing they're some sort of authority. Walk away, don't let them push you around.

ahelg · Feb 21, 2005

Well actually, in some countries, if your on private property, and if they have a rule saying that you can't take photos on their property, then yes they can make you delete the photos and send you away. What they can't do is stop you from doing it outside of private property, e.g. standing on the other side of the road.

It's a bit irritating, soon we'll be forbidden from even looking at some building.

Digital Matt · Feb 21, 2005

Bob_McBob said:
I can't believe everyone gives in so easily. No security guard has the right to make you delete your photos, or detain you for taking them. They rely on fear and deceit to terrorize people into believing they're some sort of authority. Walk away, don't let them push you around.

Umm, I'm pretty sure here in America, security guards at a federal building, federal as in FBI, have the right to do anything they want, especially now after the Homeland Security act. These were not mall rent-a-cops.

Ivana again · Feb 21, 2005

yea it happend to me also once. In Vincent van Gogh museum, when I was taking picture of famous picture Flowers

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( I dont know exactly name for them on english)

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LaFoto · Feb 21, 2005

I was out looking for farmhouses and sheds and stables and all such things and came through that tiny village where there was a wonderful, large, half-timbered farm house. I stopped and took the photo out of my side window, then zoomed in on a detail with the telephoto lense. Suddenly I had this sensation of warmth and moisture at my ear and clearly heard some VERY loud breathing. I turned and looked DIRECTLY into the mouth, nose, later eyes, face... of the hugest dog I've ever seen!!! *urk* :shock: Very slowly neared from behind the dog's owner, a lady about my age, and asked: "May I hear what you are doing?" I put on my sweetest smile (sweatiest inside, what with that enormous creature still sniffing me out) and explained I was working on a photo series on barns, sheds and stables and simply couldn't leave out this beautiful house. She accepted my explanation ... but to let that beast go in front, I mean...!!! What, if I - by mere chance - had a dog phobia? I could have died on the spot - of a heart attack! What did she think?

Bob_McBob · Feb 21, 2005

ahelg said:
Well actually, in some countries, if your on private property, and if they have a rule saying that you can't take photos on their property, then yes they can make you delete the photos and send you away. What they can't do is stop you from doing it outside of private property, e.g. standing on the other side of the road.

Obviously they have the right to ask you to leave if you're on private property, but they still can't make you delete any photos you may have taken.

Bob_McBob · Feb 21, 2005

Digital Matt said:
Umm, I'm pretty sure here in America, security guards at a federal building, federal as in FBI, have the right to do anything they want, especially now after the Homeland Security act. These were not mall rent-a-cops.

That is simply not true.

ahelg · Feb 21, 2005

Well I'm not sure what the law says, but it's probably better for both you and the guard if you do it.

Digital Matt · Feb 21, 2005

Bob_McBob said:
That is simply not true.

And you know this how? Your location says you aren't even living in America. The homeland security act gives law enforcement the right to do just about anything if they suspect terrorism, which is what photographing a federal buidling conjures up in their mind.

Bob_McBob · Feb 21, 2005

Digital Matt said:
And you know this how? Your location says you aren't even living in America. The homeland security act gives law enforcement the right to do just about anything if they suspect terrorism, which is what photographing a federal buidling conjures up in their mind.

Since when are security guards law enforcement officers? Security guards at federal buildings have no powers to search and seize beyond what any security guard has, no matter what they may believe. I don't see what difference my location makes -- you've obviously not done any research on this issue. You'll find that most if not all "photography bans" at federal buildings are simply zealous security guards overstepping the bounds of their authority (which is again, extremely limited, legally).

A quick Google search found this article, as a quick example: http://www.unknownnews.net/031008faa.html "The Department of Transportation, the Cabinet department that contains the FAA, said it is looking into the incident. Spokesman Robert Johnson said there is no rule against taking pictures of the FAA building, but photography is one of the factors that security guards take into account when determining whether people should be challenged."

terri · Feb 21, 2005

I got escorted out of a flea market a couple years back for taking pictures. There weren't any signs saying No Photographs so I protested (while someone had their hand on my arm) and I also had say, "Please remove your hand from my arm" and they did. The place had been written up in the local paper as a fun place to go and knock around, whether you were buying anything or not....boy, that was not the vibe I got. :lol:

From the initial, "She's taking pictures! Stop that girl!!" they finally let out that they thought I was a spy for a competing flea market....taking pictures of their fabulous wares "so they'd know what they were up to", or something. :roll: They were paranoid, so it was kind of fun getting the heave-ho.