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I was going to post this in the POTM thread in response to some statements, but decided it would be better off in it's on thread so as not to derail that one.
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Unfortunately, I really dislike when people bust on some one for a large watermark/copyright in the middle of the photo. Unobtrusive and hard to see watermarks can often be easily edited out or cropped off. There's many, many, many occasions that I've seen this happen or have seen some other copyright violation that can be prevented by a large ugly watermark/copyright.
If you're running a business, you should do everything you can to protect yourself. If you think that no one is going to steal and 800 x XXX image off of some place like Flickr to use for their own, then you're thinking wrong.
Two examples:
David Hobby, the creator of The Strobist Blog recently had an issue that happened on Flickr. He has a Flickr group that he admins that is linked to his blog. There's over 19,000 members and it's one of the most active group on Flickr that I've seen, for discussion as well as posting photos. His personal Icon is one of the most recognizable because of this. It's a picture of him looking up over a MBP that's lit up by an off camera speedlight lying on the keyboard. An Apple magazine (with no official relation to the company, something like mac world) ran out of UAE (I believe) Used this image as a full page add in their magazine without his permission. A giant copyright in the middle would have stopped this.
Dwight McCain from P.O.T.N. had quite a few images stolen from his personal website and hosted on Flickr. Dwight is a photographer out of Vegas that gets some big gigs photographing well known performers that play at several of the local casinos. The president of the fan club for a certain Tejano singer stole a few of his images that were watermarked by a rather small symbol in the lower left hand corner and then cropped the watermark off to use for her fan club.
He's been trying to deal with Flickr since October. They refuse to remove the images and the person that stole the images will not respond to his request to remove them.
Sorry. I'm a photographer, so I understand where you're coming from when people say a watermark ruins the photo, but when you have a chance to protect yourself in this field, take it.
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I know you put it there deliberatly but it kinda ruins the picture.
unfortunaly with these things you can spoil a image with the logos and copy right, i think you need to just take some faith in people put it in a corner and if people want to use it feel proud that you have taken an amazing shot
A 800x600 image really isn't going to do anyone much good unless they'd steal it for some sort of web display.
A watermark is a good idea but you need to pick a new spot.
Unfortunately, I really dislike when people bust on some one for a large watermark/copyright in the middle of the photo. Unobtrusive and hard to see watermarks can often be easily edited out or cropped off. There's many, many, many occasions that I've seen this happen or have seen some other copyright violation that can be prevented by a large ugly watermark/copyright.
If you're running a business, you should do everything you can to protect yourself. If you think that no one is going to steal and 800 x XXX image off of some place like Flickr to use for their own, then you're thinking wrong.
Two examples:
David Hobby, the creator of The Strobist Blog recently had an issue that happened on Flickr. He has a Flickr group that he admins that is linked to his blog. There's over 19,000 members and it's one of the most active group on Flickr that I've seen, for discussion as well as posting photos. His personal Icon is one of the most recognizable because of this. It's a picture of him looking up over a MBP that's lit up by an off camera speedlight lying on the keyboard. An Apple magazine (with no official relation to the company, something like mac world) ran out of UAE (I believe) Used this image as a full page add in their magazine without his permission. A giant copyright in the middle would have stopped this.
Dwight McCain from P.O.T.N. had quite a few images stolen from his personal website and hosted on Flickr. Dwight is a photographer out of Vegas that gets some big gigs photographing well known performers that play at several of the local casinos. The president of the fan club for a certain Tejano singer stole a few of his images that were watermarked by a rather small symbol in the lower left hand corner and then cropped the watermark off to use for her fan club.
He's been trying to deal with Flickr since October. They refuse to remove the images and the person that stole the images will not respond to his request to remove them.
Sorry. I'm a photographer, so I understand where you're coming from when people say a watermark ruins the photo, but when you have a chance to protect yourself in this field, take it.