January 2012

[siddr20]

Thanks guys.. Its where the brides side steals the shoes and then at the end of the ceremony demands money from the groom. Its quite funny to watch and photograph at the same time.

I should do a series of all the different shots I have taken from just that scene.

Anyways..

[skyliner85]

Great work Matt & Sidd

[GoldZilla]

That Z shot could have been great, but you put the watermark right through the most critical part of the image: the subject.

I understand the whole issue with people stealing photos and posting them as their own works, but if you've gone to the trouble of making and applying a watermark, take the 10 extra seconds to make a second copy for places (like this forum) where your photo is less likely to be "stolen" by others. Use the version above for when you post to Facebook, etc.

[GTRsean]

[MaTBoY]

If you've done an event gallery and you're watermark is smack bang in the middle like that people will still rip your image and use on their online galleries anyway. People just don't associate any value to event photography. sad by true. The only time someone really wants a shot is if they want the high res to print it off for a wall somewhere. People are happy with low res watermarked up shit for their fb/blog sites and computer archives.

Besides car owners at events who is really going to steal your image? It's not likely Top Gear are going to steal it for their next cover, and I doubt nissan would want it for a future brochure. I know no-one is likely to steal my amatuer shit, My watermark is more for traffic generation and crediting the shot to me rather than protecting my copyright and ruining my image.

p.s.

Edited January 26, 2012 by MaTBoY

[skyliner85]

wow...ok sorry for posting a photo with a watermark on it.... fyi i have had photos stolen before for advertising purposes.

[MaTBoY]

Not saying you shouldn't mark your work man. Just saying that for most of the time a watermark won't stop someone using it if they want to, and that most of us togs here font need to worry about people stealing our work.

As nick suggested, if you want show off some of your finer shots it might be worth using a less intrusive mark. Keep your super big mark for the event galleries if u think it helps reduce people stealing your shit/increase sales.

[siddr20]

I personally dont think his watermark is that bad across the image. Does distract the image but its not that bad.

For anyone saving images on web make sure you save it at 72dpi.

Images get stolen all the time. A good friend of mine had his entire blog posts stolen and several galleries worth of images. He even went as far as taking the watermark out and putting his own on and even describing the wedding day on his own blog. Low life scum.

Check out my thread here on this:

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1141223

[GTR-N1]

wow...ok sorry for posting a photo with a watermark on it.... fyi i have had photos stolen before for advertising purposes.

Scenario:- One of your remarkable photos (with distinct but covert watermark) is uploaded by a company without your permission > Used for their profit > Sue the pants off them

[fongy8000]

Edited January 28, 2012 by fongy8000

[Jay019]

first time in a while ive been able to get outside while the sun sets

took another a bit later, but missed a few spots. tried to fix it, but its a bit obvious, lol

Edited January 28, 2012 by Jay019

[siddr20]

Fongy - awesome pics mate. Love the processing as well.

Jay - that pano is just WOW!!! incredible. DUDE seriously print this please and hang it up!!

A random from Saturdays wedding. Haven't gone thru all the pics but posted this teaser one up for them Sunday morning before my early start to another full wedding day:

I did a few proper silhouettes for them, but I like this lighter version as it shows off the dress nicely.

Random from yesterdays wedding

Love Indian weddings.. Always filled with colour, lots of dancing, different rituals etc.

So many on lookers not knowing what the hell was going on lol.

[barraspalding]

I shot a friends wedding on Saturday, hired the Nikon 70-200mm F2.8 VRII. Wow, I really felt my left arm after 3 hours, after 7 hours it was oh so sore.

Edited January 30, 2012 by barraspalding

[FST513]

Some quite nice photos in here boys. Keep it up.

[Jay019]

Jay - that pano is just WOW!!! incredible. DUDE seriously print this please and hang it up!!

cheers man, i would love to have a wide format printer to print stuff like this at home. that would be sweet.

took this quick and dirty 6 shot auto exposure handheld pano today on the way to picking kids up from school.

(click click)

[Jay019]

sorry, double post. but found this tonight also...

Baskerville Raceway

(click click)

[MaTBoY]

do like.

[EuroDB]

Wonderful activity, good job keep it up.

[EuroDB]

Excellent post I must say.. Simple but yet entertaining and engaging.. Keep up the awesome work!

[hamiltonau]

If you've done an event gallery and you're watermark is smack bang in the middle like that people will still rip your image and use on their online galleries anyway.

p.s.

was just going to quote the post for truth but had to include the photo as well....so beautiful..left it a while before i checked into this thread and regretting it. Some truly awesome stuff in here and it makes me feel pretty silly kicking off a Feb thread with my amateur bumblings.

as for the watermark issue, i dont know how to remove the things so if nothing else it stops punks like me uploading it to their facebook car albums..not that im pretending they are mine or anything. Just have a few thousand pics of gorgeous cars i like to share. The 350z could have been one of them...sigh.