Any photography Boffins about?

mrsscattercushion

Strider590 wrote: »

I know what you mean, it's like as soon as you sling a DSLR around your neck you instantly turn into either a pedo or a terrorist.
Well.... In the UK at least, I think the tabloid press has still got far too much influence on the minds of the nation.

I remember a few years ago, some woman posted on Facebook about some guy she'd seen near a carpark taking photos, he claimed he was photographing flowers, but the woman didn't believe him because the lens was so big (obviously never seen a macro lens) and accused him of taking photo's of children, the posts that followed included a few meatheads who said they were heading down there asap to beat the living crap out of him.......

I know more than one story about the police being called to photographers lurking near hedges/fields early morning or late night...when we were in Scotland in September, we were out photographing the aurora...got stopped by the police for why a woman with car registered to South Yorkshire driving around the Galloway Forest at 3am!

Also, never try taking an SLR to a concert....even when I had permission to shot (and was using my 50d), the security guards were soon on my case....so recording a gig on your iphone, or taking v shaky pics are okay, but a few half decent photos from my camera is wrong???

Sorry, will get off my soap box now....:D

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mrsscattercushion wrote: »

so recording a gig on your iphone, or taking v shaky pics are okay, but a few half decent photos from my camera is wrong???D

Rubbish photos generate activity on facebook/twitter rather than being good enough to sell/publish

It does make me wonder if i should bother taking my little point and shoot to the Queen concert i'm going to in 2 weeks.. Sure, it's awesome that it goes as wide as f1.4 but it's got too little zoom to make use of it.

mrsscattercushion

I've managed some good pics on on my bridge camera, considering the distance, but that had decent zoom..we were front row for this concert...I know what you mean re having F1.4!

I would never be able to sell/publish those pics, just a shame it is hard to get decent reminders, but recording the whole gig is okay?

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Youtube will unshake (is there such a word as unshake ?) your shaky videos.