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RE: Pano Power
Hoyle Koontz - Technipix 2005-Aug-19 20:24:00
Several months ago, I was in Charlotte near the Bank of America building in downtown. A guard came out and very politely asked me what I was doing and told me I was on the bank's property. I apologized and explained what I was doing. I offered to move my tripod to the public sidewalk area and he said that would be fine. He said he didn't have any problems with me doing that at all. I started my VR shooting process again and got the shots I wanted, although the perspective wasn't quite as nice.
As a former TV news videographer that has been falsely arrested and thrown in jail for shooting a story (a potential police brutality story), I'm all too familiar with when things go bad on a shoot. I still have my mug-shots on my refridgerator! You can see in my face just how mad I was. . . or was that fear! ;^)
Hoyle Koontz
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LOL
>> Earlier this week, the Chicago Cable TV news channel had it's news crews
>> hassled while doing a story on photographers being arrested!
Guess that's kind of case in point..
Sad it have come to this.. But I think everybody had the experience one way
or another.. I tried to set up by the sculpture by the federal building in
LA.. Took them about 30 seconds to reach me.. Must have been laying in wait
somewhere..
BO
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Drew
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 1:04 PM
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Subject: RE: Pano Power
>From what I understand, the "Homeland Security" gives any law
>enforcement
personnel the right to do just about anything and ask questions later. If
any American actually read the act, they would not be a happy camper. It
basically tosses the constitution out the window. For photographers, news
crews and the like, it adds a lot of difficulties to the already challenging
aspect of pano's.
Snap shots are easy. But the second you start setting up a tripod, strange
and bizarre looking photo equipment, and looking around, you can get in
trouble. I take a lot of my images locally now, and have worked with the
local government - so they know me to some extent.
I would say that contacting any local law enforcement before shooting
anywhere in the USA is a good idea, but especially in big cities.
Earlier this week, the Chicago Cable TV news channel had it's news crews
hassled while doing a story on photographers being arrested!
Rick
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