I work in an ad agency. We sometimes shoot in public parks. We might
have three grip trucks, a camera truck, and a crew of 30 or so. It kind
of spoils the park for everyone else. That's why you have to have a
permit to shoot commercial photography in a public park. (For a big
shoot like that, we have to settle for a low traffic time and day.) Of
course you could say that some commercial photographers have no more
than a case of cameras and a tripod. But if you're going to regulate
some commercial photography, you have to regulate all of it.
On Feb 7, 2004, at 2:55 PM, Bob W wrote:
Hi,
i have been told that in DC it is easy to get a permit. you just go
to some
place in the morning and pay a nominal fee and you had a permit for
the day.
What are these permits for, really? To me it sounds very ironic that
you need a permit for photography in public places in "the land of
the free."
and you have to pay for them!
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Cheers,
Bob
