O/confusion
3rd of July 2005 (Sun), 13:35
Hi everyone--
I'd appreciate any advice you may be able to offer regarding the question of photographing car meets. Every Friday evening during the summer months there is a gathering of hot rods, sponsored by a local business, which takes place in the parking lot of my home city's largest shopping mall.
A couple of years ago I happened to have my camera with me on a trip to the mall, and took a series of shots that I was quite pleased with (this was before I went fully digital, and with a non-Canon film SLR--so I haven't posted them here. I'm not a die-hard car freak, and I'm not really too interested in taking whole-car "documentation"-style shots; I'm chiefly into catching details, colours, reflections in chrome and paintwork, and the like, so I don't even know if the Transportation forum would be the appropriate place to post anyway!).
I'm a long-time keen amateur phographer with some aspirations of making a little money from my hobby one day—probably in the form of framed "art" prints—so before I turn my new digital gear loose on the cars I want to make sure my ass is adequately covered where permission is concerned. Am I correct in assuming that if financial gain is even a future possibility, I need to get written permission in advance to photograph from the owners/managers of the mall property, and from the organisers/sponsors of the event, as well as from the owners of any vehicles I shoot (even if the particular vehicles are unidentifiable from the details I happen to be recording) ?
Has anyone out there run into difficulties with this sort of photography that I should be wary of? Are many car owners uncomfortable with signing property releases?
(Apologies if this has all been dealt with before--I ran a search for "releases" and read through most of what I found, but didn't see anything directly related to outdoor car shows.)
Thanks for any feedback you can give me on this topic.
regards,
Terry
I'd appreciate any advice you may be able to offer regarding the question of photographing car meets. Every Friday evening during the summer months there is a gathering of hot rods, sponsored by a local business, which takes place in the parking lot of my home city's largest shopping mall.
A couple of years ago I happened to have my camera with me on a trip to the mall, and took a series of shots that I was quite pleased with (this was before I went fully digital, and with a non-Canon film SLR--so I haven't posted them here. I'm not a die-hard car freak, and I'm not really too interested in taking whole-car "documentation"-style shots; I'm chiefly into catching details, colours, reflections in chrome and paintwork, and the like, so I don't even know if the Transportation forum would be the appropriate place to post anyway!).
I'm a long-time keen amateur phographer with some aspirations of making a little money from my hobby one day—probably in the form of framed "art" prints—so before I turn my new digital gear loose on the cars I want to make sure my ass is adequately covered where permission is concerned. Am I correct in assuming that if financial gain is even a future possibility, I need to get written permission in advance to photograph from the owners/managers of the mall property, and from the organisers/sponsors of the event, as well as from the owners of any vehicles I shoot (even if the particular vehicles are unidentifiable from the details I happen to be recording) ?
Has anyone out there run into difficulties with this sort of photography that I should be wary of? Are many car owners uncomfortable with signing property releases?
(Apologies if this has all been dealt with before--I ran a search for "releases" and read through most of what I found, but didn't see anything directly related to outdoor car shows.)
Thanks for any feedback you can give me on this topic.
regards,
Terry