What do you say to other photographers when they ask about your locations

It's a local park and a public area. By telling another photographer the place is suddenly going to get so crowded that you can't use it anymore?

Unless your customers are coming to you solely because of your backgrounds I don't see an issue with telling them.

cleverer wrote in post #17077478
That is one of the weirdest statements I've ever read on this forum.

Which bit is weird?

Not being asked by togs I don't know given I don't mix with any nor come into contact with them very often...

Or... deleting facebook fans who are photographers?

Tell them you offer tuition.. And that location is used on your courses..

In a place like LA it's hard to find places people haven't shot yet. Usually when you want to know where something is shot, people have special access to it, so even if they did tell you where it was, you couldn't get there.

If it's just a park, I'd tell them. I tell people of public spots all the time.

There was this one small local airport that allows photographer to shoot in for a fee. An incident happened between a photographer and someone at the airport, and airport decided to not allow photographers in anymore. A huge lost for others as it is very interesting location.

kenwood33 wrote in post #17085232
There was this one small local airport that allows photographer to shoot in for a fee. An incident happened between a photographer and someone at the airport, and airport decided to not allow photographers in anymore. A huge lost for others as it is very interesting location.

Something similar happened locally. Really nice location on private property. Owners used to let people use it for the cost of a bottle of wine or Starbucks GC. One wedding party left such a mess of bottles and cans and that was the end of that.

memoriesoftomorrow wrote in post #17080865
Which bit is weird?

Not being asked by togs I don't know given I don't mix with any nor come into contact with them very often...

Or... deleting facebook fans who are photographers?

The latter.

cleverer wrote in post #17087103
The latter.

Why?

It is a business decision to improve my social media WOM and make my advertising ROI better.

Photographers around the world aren't may target market. They fill my page with digital noise which gets in the way of clients, their friends and family interacting with each other on the page. When I promote posts I don't want to waste money promoting to people who are not my target market i.e. other photographers. Photographers liking my business page offers me no business benefit at all and costs me money.

To date I've deleted well over 500 of them.

Public areas - share.

Private access areas - no reason to share.

Am I the only one that is reminded of this?

I guess it would depend on how big of a mouth they have

Unless it is a known area, I tell no one about my locations, especially for wildlife. Most of my stuff is public but I have a few that are not well known and shall stay that way if it's up to me.

I would tell them. I don't think telling 1 other photographer is going to give away the spot and I am sure there are other people who know about the park, you just have never seen them there.

Personally, I think keeping secrets is a bit silly.

There is one undeniable truth which I have come to learn: What comes around goes around.

Road Dog wrote in post #17095815
Personally, I think keeping secrets is a bit silly.

I hear the NSA is hiring....


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