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Car Parks

  • 15-12-2012 5:53pm
    #1
    Brion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35 ✭


    Should be a quick and easy answer to this one, are you allowed take photographs from the top of a car park?


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  • #2
    miller50841
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭miller50841


    Brion wrote: »
    Should be a quick and easy answer to this one, are you allowed take photographs from the top of a car park?

    Why not you are not taking anything or stealing.

    You can take pics of anything you want in a public place


  • #3
    pixbyjohn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,250 ✭✭✭pixbyjohn


    If it is a private car park you will need permission to use your camera from the car park owner, regardless of what you are photographing.


  • #4
    mehfesto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭mehfesto


    Just to add to this, there are certain carparks in Dublin City Centre where you can spend hours there with a camera and nobody will bother you. Others are more tightly guarded.

    That said, of the times I've ben caught, I pleaded ignorance. They don't seem to care once you clear off when you're told. If you're only going to be taking quick shots/landscapes, I can't imagine they'd see it worth their while to come near you!


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I know a photographer who was atop a multistorey car park before. He wandered up to take a look at the view and while he was up there, got carried away with seagulls and the likes. It was one of those car parks where the roof itself is also a car park (ie; you can park on the roof, and there are just railings around the edges)

    He was shooting for about 20 minutes before the yelp of a siren echoed through the air and a Garda car came flying up to him, skidding to a stop and he was told to put the camera down immediately by armed Gardaí.

    After about 10 minutes of questioning and being escorted from the car park and his images reviewed by the Gardaí, he was free to go. Turns out there were apartments surrounding the car park and people had rang the Gardaí saying there was someone taking photos in their windows of them.

    So it's always worth making sure you're okay and won't have any issues like that.


    (the part about the siren, armed gardai, and the car 'flying up' and skidding are all lies added for dramatic effect, they actually just rolled up to him, and casually explained the situation. Doesn't sound quite as exciting, though.)


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