Post the Times/Places you have been asked to put your camera away!

This tye of stuff sure does NOT help!

Teen Swimmers' Photos Put on Gay Sites

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Several gay adult Web sites have posted photographs of teenage water polo players from several high schools in Southern California, a newspaper reported.
Some of the pictures, of boys as young as 14, were displayed next to photos of nude young men and graphic sexual content, an Orange County Register investigation found.
http://www.dailysentin​el.com …/Polo_Players_P​hotos.html

Calindy wrote in post #4750696
This tye of stuff sure does NOT help!

Teen Swimmers' Photos Put on Gay Sites

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Several gay adult Web sites have posted photographs of teenage water polo players from several high schools in Southern California, a newspaper reported.
Some of the pictures, of boys as young as 14, were displayed next to photos of nude young men and graphic sexual content, an Orange County Register investigation found.
http://www.dailysentin​el.com …/Polo_Players_P​hotos.html

Does anyone really think this situation has exsisted only since the advent of digital photography?

Anyone else stop to think that in the "old days" maybe they just passed around Polaroids or prints?

This is like saying that Porn has only exsisted since they made Deep Throat or that smoking pot has only been done since the '60s...

I have not been asked but i feel this is related...
Cameras have been banned on many of our beaches due to the potentiol pervert
problem...
The many shall suffer for the crimes of a few..

Detroit Country Hoe-Down- It is an outdoor forum, 2 stages. 1 they called their main stage and they alternated performances. I am not a country fan however I saw an opportunity to get some experience. So I checked the event website and there was absolutely no mention of any camera restrictions.
I shot on Saturday a few hours alternating between stages, and also just wandering around. Well on Sunday after being there for a few hours i was shooting the band on the small stage ,(along with all the other people, from camera phones to SLR's.) I got a tap on my shoulder from a young gentleman )maybe 21 who was with security. He asked me who I was shooting for? I said just my self, a hobbyist just for the practice. He told me I could not do that. I said what? He said take Pictures. I said you mean like all these people around me (probably at least (6).
At this time the supervisor walks up to explain that the reason "I" can't is because I have professional equipment. Even though I explained I checked the website and there was no mention of anything pertaining to photography restrictions, she told me to just stay away from the main stage and that some of those acts could get tempermental. Mind you security checked my bag as I walked in thoroughly.
You tend to feel a little guilty for something where you meant no harm.
Oh Well I will be back this year for sure.

I was recently told not to bring my camera with 24-70L lens into my local bar by their management. Why? Because they're afraid of me stealing ideas from the bar to make my own bar. Either way, they let me in with the 50mm 1.8 but not the 24-70 because it looks too professional. I have to laugh since they take the same quality pictures (if not better in low light, 1.8 versus 2.8.)

At a college stadium, where I had previously obtained permission (via e-mail with the facilities director) to bring my camera, the guys at the gate refused to allow my 300mm inside. I argued for a while and insisted they contact the facilities director, but they claimed I was "wrong" and refused. I tried to go to another gate, same outcome. They claimed I needed a "permit," and that the e-mail permission I had wasn't good enough.

So I go and put the big lens away and come back with my next-longest (at the time, an 85mm) figuring something is better than nothing. Once inside, I see many people with large zoom lenses on D-SLRs and was about to go and yell at the gate guys. Guess the white lens is what did it, because I saw people with zooms including 70-300mm's etc., including some with bags of gear they'd carried in.

The facilities director later apologized and told me he would "make sure the gate staff are aware of regulations" (which prohibit video cameras and tripods, but allow all still cameras). Since then, they have added a length restriction to lenses, I suppose to keep people from bringing the really big white lenses into the stands and bonking people in the head with them or something.

As for being asked to put the camera away, I have been at several events in which people all around are using their little P&S cameras and cell phones without objection, but the D-SLR gets an instant, "You can't take pictures," lecture. Sometimes I carry my S500 in my pocket for those occasions, but it's tough knowing I could be getting such better photos with my SLR and some real glass.

Probably like other people on this forum (especially Military) I work in a place where cameras are not allowed. If you need to use one for work you need a special form filled out explaining why you need it.

Because I commute (anywhere from 50 to 200 miles) I like to take may camera with me but the alternative is leaving it in my vehicle in the parking lot (which is not guarded).

So to respond to the OP's question I have not been personally asked but they sent out a memo every year. :0

I had an incident similar to "according to jim" where the website said still cameras were OK but no video cameras. When I tried to enter the Red Bull X-fighters freestyle motocross June 14 with my 40d I was turned away. The prohibited items list at the gate said no cameras with removable lens. I argued to no avail. So I had a long walk back to my car to leave my $$ camera in a dimly lit parking lot. Luckily my camera was OK and I didn't miss any of the show since it started an hour late.
So don't trust a website to have accurate info (duh) on what is allowed in the gate.

I am currently in Japan and often am told to put my camera away at temples and shrines, which I completely respect, tough I wish I could take pictures. Some of them though have signs that say:

I've been told "no photos allowed" in several markets/grocery stores. I also had a security guard of a large office building try to take my camera when I was photographing the building from the street. I think I said something very unlady like to him and took off. This was years ago before the 9/11 paranoia. I've had shop keepers demand I not take photos of their window displays from outside.

Most recently, I was at a formal Jewish wedding in a temple. The Rabbi stopped in the middle of the ceremony to ask all the P&S yahoos taking pictures with their flashes on to stop as the couple had paid hard earned money for a professional photographer. I thought that was pretty cool.

I was once taking pictures with my Nikon in a dark parking lot with a tripod when parking security told me to put it away. He claimed that photography was not allowed on parking lots and that he could take my camera away. I emailed Bert Krages on that, and he said that it was a gray area, and I was going to argue that there was no sign that said "no photography allowed" on the parking lot. He also countered the parking security's claim that he could seize my camera.

I also once took a shot in a museum and was told to put it away (I was an apprentice, like an internship, of the museum and was taking pictures of the museum while it was under construction for a gallery as we were walking to another gallery).

Can anyone explain to me what I would do if I was told to put away my camera in events,etc? Thank you in advance

Mightykhoa wrote in post #5768392
Can anyone explain to me what I would do if I was told to put away my camera in events,etc? Thank you in advance

Unless you want the bum's rush, I suggest you put it away when ordered to do so while on private property.

I took a tour of an historical building that had a "no photography" sign. I explained that I don't use flash and showed the tour guide that it was still in my bag, She let me fall behind the group to take shots without a crowd of people. It pays to be considerate and ask.

If I'm going to an event that doesn't allow flash photography, I still take my 580ex and leave it in my pocket. When told to put the camera away, I just show them the flash and say I'm not using it, then I point out the guilty P&S people.

There is so much gray area here, has anyone ever compiled a professional referance list of state and local laws here in the us? I have been taught to expect full freedom to shoot as long as I am standing on publicly accessable property, wich includes shopping malls, public parking, schools etc. I expect limitations at venues like theaters and arenas where the product sold is of a visual nature. The trouble for me has always been that the extent of the limitations that can be enforced is unclear and not uniform between venues or between photographers at those venues. It would be tough, but has there ever been a compilation of the rules in use? It would be a lot easier to argue our cases if we had at least a guideline to quote or comparisons to make ( Disney lets people shoot, etc.)
My personal favorite is when some rented security guard tries to explain to me why he thinks I am shooting professionally in an area where all photography is supposed to be for personal use only. I always compliment them on their ability to read my mind so accurately and then challenge them to try to discern what I am thinking now.