@David--I heartily agree!
--- On Fri, 12/31/10, David Michel <dlmichel2003@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: David Michel <dlmichel2003@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [artshow_photo] Re: Some reviews of the website
To: artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, December 31, 2010, 2:02 PM
Whenever I get to a site that has an obnoxious watermark I close the link and never return as it detracts from the photo in many ways. As a photographer, no matter how great the photo is, all I see is the annoying watermark, and never really get to view the photo as it was intended to be viewed by the photographer. I capture an image that peaks an emotion in me and try to recreate it so others can feel why I made the photo. I can't imagine displaying a photo at an art fair trying to inspire emotions of others with a watermark on it, so why do it on your web site. If great photographers like Arthur Morris, Moose Peterson, John Paul Caponigro etc. don't, then why should I. Although I have seen some transparent watermarks that were not too bad, but still. I would be curious as to how many in this group, not second hand I heard about someone, but in actuality has had a photo stolen from their web site and feel they lost allot of money
because of it. Web images are of low quality, so the most that could happen is maybe a small print at best. If someone wanted to print out a 4x6 of one of my photos have at it, and hope they share it with others. How much could you make selling 4x6's? I still have the 20 meg original raw file for an awesome 16x20 print and they have a 15k low resolution jpg, no big deal to me. I would rather have someone view what I captured and think how it would look on their wall then have them wonder how it would look without the ugly watermark. It's a personal thing. MTC
Dave
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Fri, 12/31/10, Linares Photography Studio <lpstudio@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Linares Photography Studio <lpstudio@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [artshow_photo] Re: Some reviews of the website
To: artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, December 31, 2010, 12:44 PM
I was advice long time ago to put them where people will see it and the middle
of the image.
Oscar Matos Linares
3221 West Pierce #2R; Chicago, IL 60651
Telephone: 773-315-6842
E-mail: lpstudio@yahoo.com
Website: www.lpstudios.net
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From: LeahMurray <leah@leahmurray.ca>
To: artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, December 31, 2010 10:49:26 AM
Subject: [artshow_photo] Re: Some reviews of the website
Hi, Oscar,
I loved the site -- and I'm used to seeing a copyright image on images that
are of value, actually -- it's the only way you can protect your work when
it's online. You more or less HAVE to put a copyright on each image
online, preferably one that is embedded.
That said, there are ways to make it less obtrusive to the viewer in your
image editing program (check out how Getty Images does theirs for example),
So don't take the copyright off, Oscar, it can be there and be worked with
if you are smart about it.
One of my friends took the copyright off his images on the web site only to
have someone pirate them all from his web site and send them around in one
of those powerpoint thingies that people forward without a thought -- ow.
No compensation for a pile of his work, and even worse, some people I knew
who got the powerpoint used it to print out smaller images and decorate
their workspace, saying "Well, why should I pay him to print it? I got
it for free originally."
No wonder artists go broke!!!
Leah
Posted by: "Linares Photography Studio" <mailto:lpstudio@yahoo.com?Subject=
Re%3A%20Some%20reviews%20of%20the%20website> lpstudio@yahoo.com
<http://profiles.yahoo.com/lpstudio> lpstudio
Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:37 pm (PST)
I still need to figure how to make the images bigger. That is why I still
have
the copyright.
Oscar Matos Linares
3221 West Pierce #2R; Chicago, IL 60651
Telephone: 773-315-6842
E-mail: <mailto:lpstudio%40yahoo.com> lpstudio@yahoo.com
Website: www.lpstudios.net
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