Is it necessary to put your watermark or logo on photo?
Sep 26, 2011 07:39:20 #
I'm fairly new to selling my work so I have limited experience with watermarks but here's my two cents worth. When I sell a print whether framed or matted, I sign it with silver or gold ink at the lower left hand side of the image, like an artist would sign their painting. I also apply a watermark on any image I put on the internet for public viewing. I do this to help build a brand name for my work.
I'm not worried about anyone stealing the image. I just want them to know who took it.
I'm not worried about anyone stealing the image. I just want them to know who took it.
Sep 26, 2011 07:40:38 #
I'm fairly new to selling my work so I have limited experience with watermarks but here's my two cents worth. When I sell a print whether framed or matted, I sign it with silver or gold ink at the lower right hand side of the image, like an artist would sign their painting. I also apply a watermark on any image I put on the internet for public viewing. I do this to help build a brand name for my work.
I'm not worried about anyone stealing the image. I just want them to know who took it.
I'm not worried about anyone stealing the image. I just want them to know who took it.
Sep 26, 2011 08:42:28 #
There is digital watermark software as well but I might consider what I once heard about; if you've got the original files on your hard drive somewhere, then you've got proof of ownership. Maybe the RAW file might have been type, though (kind of like having the ownership of the negative).
Sep 26, 2011 08:50:42 #
Sep 26, 2011 10:21:51 #
I have them on my on the ones I've posted here only because the ones I've shared have been uploaded to my blog and I've used the same file for here since they have already been sharpen and resized for webviewing.
I'm not a professional, don't have any plans to be one but I still put my logo on them and they should also have my megadata attached as well. I use to work for a software development company, I've seen way to many cases of images stole and used for crazy things, even really, really bad images that would make you think...WTF?
Plus I really don't want to see my images on http://youarenotaphotog.tumblr.com/
I'm not a professional, don't have any plans to be one but I still put my logo on them and they should also have my megadata attached as well. I use to work for a software development company, I've seen way to many cases of images stole and used for crazy things, even really, really bad images that would make you think...WTF?
Plus I really don't want to see my images on http://youarenotaphotog.tumblr.com/
Sep 26, 2011 10:33:26 #
If someone wanted to steal your Photo, then they will and a good edited would most likey be able to just remove the watermark.
I put my name on some of my pic's. I'm just beginng and often I forget, or I think it distracts to much from the picture.
I put my name on some of my pic's. I'm just beginng and often I forget, or I think it distracts to much from the picture.
Sep 26, 2011 10:43:37 #
If your scared of having your photos taken then you need to make sure you have your megadata attached.
My watermark is easy to remove as I never put in over the subject and it's normally in the corner/dead space. I just want to make it a little more difficult, they also can't right click and save on my blog (drives my mother crazy) and you can't right click and save off flickr but there are ways around that, and if I can figure it out then any can.
My watermark is easy to remove as I never put in over the subject and it's normally in the corner/dead space. I just want to make it a little more difficult, they also can't right click and save on my blog (drives my mother crazy) and you can't right click and save off flickr but there are ways around that, and if I can figure it out then any can.
Sep 26, 2011 11:17:30 #
If one were to sign or watermark their work, how in the world they know it had been stolen. Unless it was published in some national magzine and they happened to see it. Their other option would be to spend their life searching everywhere a photograph may have been used.
If the shot is that good they should be out selling it themself.
It's hard to imagine someone that good in a photography help forum.
If the shot is that good they should be out selling it themself.
It's hard to imagine someone that good in a photography help forum.
Sep 26, 2011 11:23:37 #
Dennis wrote:
If one were to sign or watermark their work, how in the world they know it had been stolen. Unless it was published in some national magzine and they happened to see it. Their other option would be to spend their life searching everywhere a photograph may have been used.
If the shot is that good they should be out selling it themself.
It's hard to imagine someone that good in a photography help forum.
If the shot is that good they should be out selling it themself.
It's hard to imagine someone that good in a photography help forum.
Imagine it. There are plenty of good/great photographers and -to be's. But, there are some forums that allow higher res images and they can be stolen and used for stock photos and that could create an income depending on the quality and subject. Also, people are driven by greed and take from one forum and place them in another as their own in order to impress.
Sep 26, 2011 11:29:33 #
you would be amazed at what is stolen. I've had one of my pictures of my youngest stolen(a really sucky one that was OOF and I would be embrassed to show it now)stolen and used on Orkut for a fake profile. I found out because someone was kind enough to send me a message and let me know about it.
what a pain in the arse that was to fight with the powers that be to prove it was mine and have it removed from their profile pictures. Now I watermark and use megadata on every image.
what a pain in the arse that was to fight with the powers that be to prove it was mine and have it removed from their profile pictures. Now I watermark and use megadata on every image.
Sep 26, 2011 11:35:21 #
Sep 26, 2011 11:59:32 #
Sep 26, 2011 12:20:40 #
nothing is in focus, it's soft. I had just got the nifty fifty and was shooting as wide open as possible, of course I was shooting in a program mode and letting the camera make all the choices for me, including picking the focal point.
Sep 26, 2011 12:20:54 #
As a pofessional photographer of some seventy years I considered having one of my photos stolen as the highest complement that a photographer could receive. If your photo is one that another photographer feels is worth stealing, you have arrived as a photographer.
Sep 26, 2011 12:24:21 #
If you think that is a "crappy" photo then you should, perhaps, consider another hobby to take up.
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