Quote (brian_6905 @ Fri, Mar 27 2009, 03:02pm)
Wondering if i should take a tripod, in going to the eifel tower at night and want to take a might pano and idk if i should take a tripod so i can capture all the light
was thinking of just laying the camera on someone to let it balance
also i would appreciate anything suggested for shooting the eifel tower or any other thing, will be going to many places such as the louvre
many castles, also to omaha beach
nd notre dame, and other places
Definitely take a tripod. It's also worth considering copyright laws if you're going to be taking photos of the tower at night.
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Images of the tower have long been in the public domain; however, in 2003 SNTE (Société nouvelle d'exploitation de la tour Eiffel) installed a new lighting display on the tower. The effect was to put any night-time image of the tower and its lighting display under copyright. As a result, it was no longer legal to publish contemporary photographs of the tower at night without permission in some countries.[24][25]
The imposition of copyright has been controversial. The Director of Documentation for SNTE, Stéphane Dieu, commented in January 2005, "It is really just a way to manage commercial use of the image, so that it isn't used in ways we don't approve." However, it also potentially has the effect of prohibiting tourist photographs of the tower at night from being published[26] as well as hindering non profit and semi-commercial publication of images of the tower.
In a recent[citation needed] decision, the Court of Cassation ruled that copyright could not be claimed over images including a copyrighted building if the photograph encompassed a larger area. This seems to indicate that SNTE cannot claim copyright on photographs of Paris incorporating the lit tower.
In some jurisdictions, this claim of copyright is explicitly disallowed. In Irish copyright law, works "permanently situated in a public place or in premises open to the public" may be freely included in visual reproductions.[27]