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Ted.Sz said:


This is Amanda. Do I know her? No, we’ve never met. And yet I know
her name and I know where she works all from a little tag she so
proudly parades around the Sydney CBD. Thousands of city workers do
exactly the same every day.

Bigger sized image:

http://www.digital-photo.com.au/v/People/Street+Photography/Amanda-IMG_7442.jpg.html

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Ted Szukalski

Photographic gallery: http://www.digital-photo.com.au/
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--Tags like these are very common. I know that many organizations - military ones for example - require the pass holder to remove the pass on exiting the area of work. You pointed out one reason why. Another is so that someone doesn't copy the pass. Say, take a photo of it for example.

Jim Rickards
 
Electronic access badges are so commonplace these days that just an image alone of the badge isn't worth much. You can't get through any badge reader with just a photocopy of the badge.

The only thing I can think of would be a company that has a guard who does nothing more than look at your badge upon entering the building. If that's all the security that's in place then there's probably nothing inside they're really trying to protect.
Jim_R said:
--Tags like these are very common. I know that many organizations
  • military ones for example - require the pass holder to remove the
pass on exiting the area of work. You pointed out one reason why.
Another is so that someone doesn't copy the pass. Say, take a photo
of it for example.

Jim Rickards
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Ted;

I looked at all 89 of your "people" pics. I am impressed.

I would suggest that beginners interested in this aspect of photography should study them carefully. They are made even more useful with the inclusion of the techincal info with each pic.

Thanks for the link.

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Glenn NK
Victoria, BC
 
I worked at a company that only had you picture and a number on the badge. That way no one would know what company it was for or your name if they found the badge. Now that is secure!
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Todd Haehn
 
I must llok at your other pictures as that one of the woman in the street I was very impressed with. Loved the blacks youve achieved with the rets of the tonal range its very well executed. The picture itself I like with the juxtapositions of the traveling man and the standing still woman two contrasts which work so well in monochromes. Thank you.

It does make me wonder about concentrating upon B+W as being my principal mode of imaging when I use the camera for things other than recording the things i make which is the main reason for a camera, which need to be in colour.

Thank you Joools
 
Ted forgive me for two concecutive posts. I've just been through your other pictures. I remebr the guy on the bike reading the paper from elsewhere. I was very impressed on your ability to get into your subject matter and it comes across from your pictures that you mave imense pleasure in taking them and that youre more than just releasing a camera button. I guess its a great quality lense and its nice i can see to use a long focal in the street. The reportage quality of some of the pictures forme was time stopping and gave aplace of inccident as well within a context. Ive learnt I hope alot.

Jools
 
I was not even thinking about security when I took this photograph. Privacy is often discussed here, especially if someone like me is strongly interested in street photography. It seems that many of the people who go to lunch with these tags clearly visible care for their privacy a lot less than we do when we take photographs of strangers in the street. There are literally thousands of people in Sydney CBD with these tags at any time.
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Ted Szukalski

Photographic gallery: http://www.digital-photo.com.au/
 
Browsed yoru site. Excellent work. Especially liked the landscapes.

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Dave Patterson
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Gary Friedman
 
dwalby said:
Electronic access badges are so commonplace these days that just an
image alone of the badge isn't worth much. You can't get through
any badge reader with just a photocopy of the badge.

The only thing I can think of would be a company that has a guard
who does nothing more than look at your badge upon entering the
building. If that's all the security that's in place then there's
probably nothing inside they're really trying to protect.
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I worked in a place where you ran your bage past a scanner, then the guard looked at a full sized image of your face on the monitor. Yeh, your image and name were on the badge, but the guard never looked at them. He compaired your face against the one on the monitor and that is all he did. If he flagged you you were taken care of by other guards.

They went to "secure" RFID tags a few years earlier and the programmers had them hacked in a few days. The programmers then sugested this system and wrote it up in a week or so.

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Bryan - click, click, click, click, moo, click, click...
 
That's a pretty clever solution, and as you point out, pretty darn easy to set up and code.

The thing is that people have a tendency to believe that a really high-tech solution will always be the best (such as the RFID setup). But that's usually because they don't really understand it. People tend to feel that if they can't think of a way to break it, then it must be hard to break.

I like the idea of using a human to perform the face recognition. It's simple and probably quite effective. It gives you several systems all checking at once with the last line of defense being an actual human giving each and every person a good once-over.

I'm not saying it's foolproof, but it sounds pretty effective to me.

Gee, it's kind of like having a doorman who actually knows everybody :)

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Jim H.
 
I just finished looking at your Street Gallery photos. Great work! I've seen some of them before, was here or on Fred Miranda?

I really like "Man at NSW Supreme Court". Great conversion.
 
I post my images on 3 forums so yes, you may have seen some of them before. It is interesting that each of the forums actually provides me with quite unique feedback.

Naturally the larger the forum the more varied the opinions but there are certain aspects that prevail. For example comments from here tend to be more about technique, Fred's forum will get more lighting and pose related comments as most photographers on people forum are studio photogs and dgrin is more of a first reaction responses from amateurs photogs. Each valuable in its own category.
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Ted Szukalski

Photographic gallery: http://www.digital-photo.com.au/
 
I like your b/w work.

I have had 3 cameras with waist level viewers, a Roleiflex, a Mamaya and an old Exacta. They were great for that kind of photography, you could just sit around with the view finder open and people weren't as conscious of what you were doing. Maybe someday a manufacturer will bring out a DSLR with interchangeable viewers like the Exacta VXIIA had that is a few thousand dollars cheaper than a Hasselblad.
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Jim Williams
 
With exception of Sony 707, which had a tilt body I have never used a waist level viefinder. I do not hide with my camera and somehow I still manage to capture quite a few photographs as if I wasn't there but I can see how it could be useful in some cases.

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Ted Szukalski

Photographic gallery: http://www.digital-photo.com.au/
 
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