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Originally Posted by R_Fredrick_Smith
Generally the wedding shoots I've seen in parks, or the ones I've done myself, have been very "low key" in that they didn't use an assistant, a tripod, etc. There would often be a flash on a bracket and maybe one reflector (often held by the subjects). Even then, you'll occasionally get some "official" who will ask about licenses. You then, just move on.
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I understand just dont like the double standard and it goes against promotion of the city. Here is an for example. So I have this crazy idea for a shoot for a california based magazine. which involves a door frame framing the Golden Gate bridge. Where I want to shoot the images to frame it just so puts me in the middle of Golden Gate park. My shoot takes all of ten minutes to setup and ten minutes to shoot. But it cost me $200 for a permit to shoot that. On one hard you could say well your going to benefit commercially from that and I would agree but doesnt the city of San Francisco benefit a little. I've already paid city taxes, states taxes and federal taxes all of which a piece of goes to the upkeep of the park. I then have to pay for a permit and the city gets a free piece of advertising with a landmark that even me being from London would not mistake where that bridge is from.
So you could argue that they is almost a quid pro quo her, but the thing that throws that all out of wack is that the city of San Francisco would reimbursed me all my fees, permits, pay roll taxes, even a potion of my hotel and food if the production cost over $50k. But because my setup cost me $100 for the door frame and $200 for the permit the cost of promoting the city of San Francisco in a magazine with a circulation of 250,000 magazines isnt deemed worthy. This is another one of those situation like penalizing grocery shoppers that are spending a couple of hundred bucks and making them stand in a long line because they dont have under 15 items. Come to think of it that door frame needs to be made of gold and diamond plated, should easily cost more than $50k and I'd need half the city cops to guard the shot which San Francisco will gladly foot the cost for.
Doesnt make me made I could easily do a gorilla shoot but doing the right thing is as usual the toughest thing to do.
Jon