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Roadkill

Here is another from the same event as the crack pic, I would love some input on this one to make it better.

DeeCajun

Lovin it.. can't take my eyes off the boots...

rutt

This is also very funny and I think the title is also distracting and that the picture would be funnier without it. I love the pic on the cell phone in contrast to scene it's pointed at. How exactly did this happen? Whose hot pants are those anyway?

Lose the watermark. Really it's not doing you any good.

Scott_Quier

rutt wrote:

This is also very funny and I think the title is also distracting and that the picture would be funnier without it. I love the pic on the cell phone in contrast to scene it's pointed at. How exactly did this happen? Whose hot pants are those anyway?

Lose the watermark. Really it's not doing you any good.

The phone was just held at a different position, thus a different perspective on the subject.

SimpsonBrothers

I would have liked it more if the phone was in focus, subject oof, but still a good picture.
Not to thread jack, but this is what I'm talking about: pic

Roadkill

rutt wrote:

How exactly did this happen? Whose hot pants are those anyway?

Lose the watermark. Really it's not doing you any good.

Well its at a event called Gasparilla in Tampa, which is basically a drunk fest. The girl works at one of the bars and I saw this happening so I just walked right up there and started shooting, so things are happening fast.

As far as the watermark, is that not they way to go as far as protecting ones work?

SimpsonBrothers wrote:

I would have liked it more if the phone was in focus, subject oof, but still a good picture.

I too wish I had shot some with the phone in focus... hindsight is 20/20

rutt

Roadkill wrote:

As far as the watermark, is that not they way to go as far as protecting ones work?

How much of your work has been stolen? How much have you sold (except commissioned weddings, portraits and the like)?

I'll be honest if you will. I have one shot that I've sold 4 times to different advertising companies. It's featured on my gallery on smugmug with originals available. I've never really promoted it except to post on smugmug and a blog about Waltham community history. It's not watermarked. The buyers sought me out. I've made a total of about $1k from it.

Perhaps there are other of my shots selling sneakers, hanging from dorm room walls, featured in newspapers and I'm not being paid or credited? Somehow I don't think so. I wish it were true; it would mean that I'd created something of value, something worth protecting.

Smugmug itself provides an elegant and unobtrusive protection mechanism by limiting the maximum available resolution. This is the very same mechanism Magnum uses to protect the most valuable PJ, Street, &etc. photographs ever taken. Do you really have a reason to think you need more protection?

Sorry for that, but it applies to me as well and also to almost all of us. First worry about making something worth stealing and then worry about protecting it.

Qarik

haha..this is funny but it doesn't make sense to me. The shoes are pointing at us but the shot on the phone is of the butt?

thoth

Qarik wrote:

haha..this is funny but it doesn't make sense to me. The shoes are pointing at us but the shot on the phone is of the butt?

You can see the backs of her knees so I think the shoes are pointing away.

DeeCajun

Yup I know those boots (yum) and they are walking away *sad*

Roadkill

Rutt .... ouch but touché and well put, makes sense.


Boots are pointing away, no PP inserting image or anything. I think the only PP was some burning and maybe some saturation.

Qarik

Roadkill wrote:

Rutt .... ouch but touché and well put, makes sense.


Boots are pointing away, no PP inserting image or anything. I think the only PP was some burning and maybe some saturation.

upon closer inspection you are correct. *shakes head to clear cobwebs*

I thought the back of the knee was the ankle bend and the toes of the shoes were outlined by the arc made up of the shiny/sparkly thingies. heh

DeeCajun

lol @ *Sparkly thingy*

In regards to the watermark, this is a great shot and I think what is being implied is that the photo would be that much better without it or at best a smaller more transparent one.

I keep coming back to this picture... I do love it. I also wonder what is in the pocket of the guy on the left. ( did anyone notice a guy on the left ? .) whatever it is looks kinda heavy and I wish that guy would not have been standing there but you gotta catch what ya gotta catch.. it was worth it to get this one..

rainbow

DeeCajun wrote:

lol @ *Sparkly thingy*

I also wonder what is in the pocket of the guy on the left. ( did anyone notice a guy on the left ? .) whatever it is looks kinda heavy and I wish that guy would not have been standing there ..

In keeping with your title and paraphrasing Mae West: "Maybe he was just happy to see you!"

DeeCajun

rainbow wrote:

In keeping with your title and paraphrasing Mae West: "Maybe he was just happy to see you!"

Heh.... that's really funny considering it is a side pocket