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Thumper !VFtk2VroH6
Best advice: ALWAYS take your camera with you.

I was driving homw from uni today and I saw an SES (emergency services) van driving ahead with sirens on.
Sure enough it turned down the main road where I was heading and lo and behold a major accident. An old man had driven his car off a cliff into the creek below. Quite a spectacle, but I grabbed my trusty SLR and kept shooting. Sure enough, I got photos of the old man being carried away to hospital and the newspaper wants to use my shots! I was shooting on film so I have to wait until tomorrow to see how they turned out, but I'm pretty excited.

It also surprised me how I was able to get up close to the action and police who didn't think twice about letting me through, just because I had a big camera around my neck.

Pic unrelated, but if this thread is alive tomorrow, I shall post pictures of the carnage
>> Lynx !!KY+lVSl0s2m
Best advice: ALWAYS take your BEST camera with you.
I drove home from my GFs house behind a Lamborghini Diablo for 20 mins and all I had was my LC-A and it's penchant for out of focus pictures.
>> Anonymous
"It also surprised me how I was able to get up close to the action and police who didn't think twice about letting me through, just because I had a big camera around my neck."

Big +1 for that, mate. I was at a show this summer when my friend got a call saying that a plane crashed a few blocks from where we were. We all caravan'd down there and I strapped on my big ol' dSLR and walked past all the yellow tape to get some shots. Apparently some news people had been there before me because I was the only photographer still there, but anytime I saw a cop I just lifted up my camera and gave them a nod and they waved me through.

Funny how cops can be more chill about photographers than fucking mall rent-a-cops. Scum of the earth.
>> angrylittleboy !wrJcGUHncE
>>81079

Footages of the UK bus bombing were taken with shitty cellphone cameras.
>> Lynx !!KY+lVSl0s2m
>>81080
"Funny how cops can be more chill about photographers than fucking mall rent-a-cops. Scum of the earth."
I got kicked out of a local mall for taking a picture of a pair of earrings in the window of a jewlery store. If they didn't want me to spend 250$ there, they could have just asked.
>> Anonymous
>>81083
In Australia, anyone can photograph anything in a public place (obscenity laws still apply). A shopping mall wouldn't apply because it's owned by a private firm. I think the same applies in the US
>> Jeremo !iKGMr61IHM
>>81084

Yeah there's is a difference between a 'Public Place' and a 'Public Accessible Place'.
>> Anonymous
>>81090
hence celebrities can't do a fucking thing when the paparazzi stalk them. BAAAWWWWW
>> Anonymous
>>81084
Try taking a photo on QR property and get hustled away by the cops and seccas like I did.
>> Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s
taking photos of something inside a store is pretty close to infringement, it could easily be passed as attempted copyright theft.

anyway ive not had much experiance with police+camera yet but people here (liverpool, uk) seem to be afraid of cameras.
>> Anonymous
>>81102
my friend and i were kicked out of albertsons for having a dslr on us. my friend had my cam took 2-3 pics when we walked in and a manager ran up on us and told us he saw us taking pics from the security camera and that we weren't allowed to take pictures in the store and we needed to leave the store immediately and walked us out of the store -_-;
>> Anonymous
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>people here (liverpool, uk) seem to be afraid of cameras.

Wait... people IN THE UK are afraid of cameras? What?

(Pic related.)
>> Anonymous
>>81138

Hmm I see that policy in more places, no photo's inside shops.

Altho I wonder what there afraid off, second.. why the fuck do you want to take a picture inside a boring shop?
>> Anonymous
>>81145
I don't know, ask Brian Ulrich.
>> Sicko !L3HRY/miC.
>>81102

A photo is hard evidence of theft. :-p
>> Anonymous
The obvious reason is most stores think you are taking the pictures to case out the place. If you know where everything is it's a lot easier to steal in a hurry, now isn't it?
>> Thumper !VFtk2VroH6
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the aftermath
>> Anonymous
>>81249
if you shoop this up well enough pretentious art fags will masturbate to it and then buy it
>> Anonymous
>>81251
Haha, the first thing that came to my mind was a TAC ad (road safety). They do garbage like "speed kills" and pay bad actors to play cripples and whine about how they wouldn't be that way if they'd just taken a cab home.
>> Anonymous
I always bring my camera with me when I drive. I'm a delivery boy for Papa John's and bringing it hasn't really paid off except for a few really awesome sunsets.
>> Jeremo !iKGMr61IHM
>>81155

Yeah, as someone who spent his later teenage years working in surfwear stores that's a huge reason. The managers told me shit like 'oh the owners spend thousands on interior design and dont want them copied... that's crap...

there are professional gangs of people who case stores and work together to steal clothes. though majority of the time it's actually to steal the design and pirate them as fake clothing.

I remember a gang got caught once and it was a group of 6.... SIX people... the cops were really impressed with the way they worked and all that.

But usually i just ask if i can take a photo of an item my mum would like or something i need my girlfriend's opinion on. Yep.
>> Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s
Taking photos inside stores is pretty stuipd anyway, its private land you dont really have any right to take photographs.

>>81141
Yes seriously, thats probably part of the reason why everyone hates them.
>> Anonymous
OP so you took those pics in film, how did you get them onto your pc in such a clear quality? a pretty darn good scanner?
>> Thumper !VFtk2VroH6
>>81343
Nope, the local Kodak Express store. When you develop them at some stores, you have the option of getting them burned on to cd. I don't have a film scanner yet, so it sure beat scanning them one by one with my flatbed
>> Anonymous
OP
oh yeah, almost forgot those services in shops. Those photos are of pretty good quality and small file size too.
>> Thumper !VFtk2VroH6
>>81349
I've resized them. The original size of each image was about 1.5 meg
>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
>>81083

Heh, i didnt' get kicked out but was kindly asked not to take a picture of the local mall here, either. and the darn thing was outside.

>>81145
If i could take photos inside the local market I would. The varietycombonation of fruits and vegetables + shopkeeper makes for very interesting shots.

>>81249

Great shot. I hope the dude turned out alright though. Old people should be allowed to drive, they're extremely reckless and they don't think being so. AT ALL. (I watched one very old lady cause nearly three accidents in the span of a minute and a half this weekend)
>> thefamilyman !!rTVzm2BgTOa
>>81250
Holden Statesman?
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>>81355
Thanks!

I wish that the old geezer wasn't in this picture, but hey I was thinking about selling them to the paper and not art at the time.
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>>81362
Grange, lol. Lovely advertisement.
>> elf_man !fBgo7jDjms
>>81083
I used to work for a security company. Usually those jobs are so boring you look for anything you possibly can just to stay awake. It's so "easy" it makes you worse at your job.
>>81355
You mean "should NOT be allowed to drive." Hehe. You're right though, they should at least have to take new drivers' tests past a certain age.
>> Anonymous
Looking at these pics of all the dirt and leaves and trees, it still amazes me how much detail is captured in a single frame of film.
>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
>>81364

oops yes. Should not be allowed to drive (it's early, no such thing as spelling for another half an hour or so)
>> Anonymous
>>81138
>>a manager ran up on us and told us he saw us taking pics from the security camera and that we weren't allowed to take pictures in the store

I find the blatant hypocracy of this policy particularly fucked, they're allowed to take numerous pictures of us while we're in the store, but we're not allowed to take pictures of a product we might want to buy to show to a friend or family member, all in the name of "security".
>> Anonymous
>>81362
The old geezer makes the shot, IMO.

>>81369
I don't know how smaller sensors (APS-C, 4/3rds, smaller) stack up, but I've seen comparisons where full frame digital surpasses medium format film.
>> Anonymous
>>81391
Oh I wasn't trying to start an argument here. I just meant that in any good photography, you can stare at the detail in pictures for hours
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This happened outside my house a few months ago. The corner behind the ambulance is notorious in my local area for catching speeders.

I say catching and I mean catching! 5 people have run up the bank already this year, this being the most extreme example..

No terrible injuries, and my house in the background :)

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>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
>>81393

you keep red riding hood in the front of your house?

that's creepy though, i'd never want to stand on that corner.
>> elf_man !fBgo7jDjms
>>81393
These kinds of things amaze me. There are always these places that everyone knows are dangerous and yet people keep doing it. My mom works for the medical examiner's office here and I always hear about areas that always, every single holiday, kill people, and even not on holidays but when people are drunk, or high, or sometimes just too sleepy. And when it comes down to it it's always because they don't slow down to an appropriate speed. Wtf?
>> Anonymous
neads moar disaster pics
>> Anonymous
i was taking the shuttle on campus to my car one day when we were stuck, so we all got out and this guy on a motorcycle had gotten hit by a truck just seconds before. but i didnt bring my camera :(
>> Thumper !VFtk2VroH6
Guys, great news! I spoke to the reporter handling the story, and not only are they using my pictures and giving me credit, one of them is going to be on the front page for that week's edition! Yaay
>> Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s
>>81649
dont belive it till you see it.