rgrenaderphoto wrote:
The signatures are a watermark, and you should always, on any image you post online, anywhere, include in your exports. Watermarking is the first line of defense to prevent theft of your work. Somebody downloads your image, crops or erases your watermark, you have a prima facie case for intellectual property theft.
And it is kind of difficult to recreate the effects on moving water in post-processing vs a long exposure with a neutral density filter.
You are absolutely right about the IP. However, my objections are that people may be using it for vanity and they are not using the proper format. Make it less obtrusive and properly formatted, then I can accept that. I embed the copyright into the metadata too.