Id like to get some good photos of bands (one day), thanks for the tips. :P

http://www.cameramentor.com/images/ra_fountain/

Energy captured on film is a special thing.

Smooches,

Wiggy

My thing is I want to start making money doing it, so any tips there as to how to get published, please let me know. Thanks.

But what about how this subject matter ties into your previous posts about taking pictures in public places?

Having been frustrated in my two recent attempts to take photographs of Puffy Ami Yumi at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., and Paul Simon at the Merriweather Post Pavillion in Columbia, MD, I’m starting to wonder about these “privately owned” places that allow the public in.

Now, in a way I understood the first instance: at the 9:30 Club, the artist requested it. In my mind, it’s one of the ways that artists and other people with very public lives can maintain control over their image and create more “branding,” for themselves by releasing key images or hiring certain photographers, and whatnot. I can kinda get behind that (though it bummed me out that I couldn’t get a photo of the band).

But at Merriweather, it’s just their policy. I guess that’s okay, but what really got my goat was when I strolled through the gates and saw an arsenal of staffers with digital cameras, all asking me, “Would you like a souvenir photograph?”

Now that’s just rubbing salt on a wound. And no I don’t want a random staff-person to take my photograph, because the whole reason for bringing a camera was to take my own photographs of things that I care about.

I understand private property, and all, but what do you think about that kind of phenomenon?

Maybe this is just way too off-topic…