Hey Oscar,
I wasn't trying to knock you or your web site, but just providing another point of view. Actually I think your site looks great. The subject was watermarks, and some like them and some don't. I guess I didn't exactly make my point of view clear, or you maybe misunderstood my point that many think a watermark detracts from the photo. Your eye tends to first see the watermark then keep returning to it so one doesn't get the full impact of the photo. If you place two photos on a web page, one with and one without the watermark, and asked people to choose the best photo I really believe the one without would get the most votes as it would provide the most emotional response of the first impression and to me the first impression is more important than worrying about someone making a print from the low resolution jpg. Who is right and who is wrong doesn't really matter, its kind of a gray area. As I said it is a personal thing and
my view is that I for one don't like watermarks. You do, and I truly have no problem with that, and doing what you feel is right for you is exactly what you should do, and I wish you the best in 2011.
Dave
--- On 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, 3:37 PM
First art fairs and website sales are two different thing. If someone decide not
to look to my website b.c I have copyright in the image that means that person
really was not gonna buy anything in the first place. I can not tell you what to
do but I will go with what a feel happy. Also as customer if you want to see the
image without the copyright he or she can contact the artist but still think it
give you a good idea what you looking.
I work in a frame store and Tuesday night a customer took an image from catalog
and printed to 20X24. The image look just like the poster the have in from the
catalog.
Does that make you wonder?
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: David Michel <dlmichel2003@yahoo.com>
To: artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, December 31, 2010 2:02:03 PM
Subject: Re: [artshow_photo] Re: Some reviews of the website
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
________________________________
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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