Another tour into the woods yesterday and I’m “blessed” with another 600
images to sort through and edit for the stock photo agencies. This time
of year is mushroom season, loads of shrooms of all kinds to pick and
get in the freezer so there’ll be goodies all winter to enjoy. One such
treat is the Lawyers Wig, while they’re still white and no “ink” has
formed they are very much edible. These two though are only usable for
photographing.
The weather’s been really lousy for a couple of days around here, but last night I at least could go out moongazing…
This is not cool!
On Instagram many profiles do this thing where you can get featured if you tag them when posting yourself. It’s a nice and easy way to get visibility, if they feature your image as is that is. Yesterday one such feature occured, but when doing like this profile did is actually copyright infringement. Although he/she tagged me the image had been cropped in such a way that my logo was removed and also the image went from sharp to fuzzy.
When done like this it reflects poorly on me as photographer, when my image is reposted it should be unaltered and not made a lesser image that won’t show the quality of my work. Below both versions have been included so you can see the difference. and, it is copyright infringement which makes it illegal when reposting!
Incidently, this particular image is available as print and novelty items at Printler, Spreadshirt, Redbubble and Pixels/Fine Art America. how likely are you to make a purchase if an image of poor quality is what you have seen before from my work?
Needless to say this particular Instagrammer won’t be getting any more support from me and I am actually considering filing charges. It’s sad really that people are so clueless when it comes to copyright.
This is not the first time I have been going down this road on the
blogs, here at the backup mirror there are a couple of posts to read. Infringement and Credits are two of them, one with what not to do and one on how to do it.
All of a sudden I had gotten me a student of photography when I gave my
fiancé one of my old cameras to play with. As it turns out she had never
even held a system camera prior to this and I must confess I am
somewhat impressed by how quickly she’s learned the basics. The very
first time she had a session she accompanied me to a shoot at a local
eating contest and my initial thought afterwards was that I needed to
have a discussion with her regarding focus. Not so much the focus of the
camera but more regarding what her focus was at as I found a load of
shots of me on the job when uploading her images to the computer.
Anywho, from time to time I’ll be sharing some of her images here.
Fall is upon us, but some flowers are still very much blooming. Tansies are lighting up the fields like thousands of little suns.
This image is mirrored from http://metalphoto.blog/tansy/
The day has come when I move on towards new horizons, the blog is moving from Nouw to a domain of it's own hosted elsewhere where it is possible to include widget snippets with tracking codes so I can compete with bloggers/influencers on other platforms. Don't forget to update your bookmarks!
New URL: http://metalphoto.blog/
It's still very much a hard helmet area, there's a lot to get in place, but it is an active new home. It would mean the world to me if you follow me there and continue to visit and comment.
To illustrate why extension tubes are useful, there have been questions regarding this, I have with a lens with a 55 mm focal length taken one shot without an extension tube and one shot with a 36 mm tube. Lenses have a minimum distance you have to be from an object to be able to take a clear shot, with extension tubes you can alter this distance and the amount of magnification without having to purchase a much more expensive macro lens.
