Todays brother & sister.

HackboneHackbone Registered Users Posts: 4,027 Major grins
edited February 10, 2014 in People
A very cute brother and sister.

Lately I've been reading on several forums that folks are stealing files and posting them as their work. You might want to start adding your logo to the image just in case.


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Charles
www.cameraone.biz

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  • kdotaylorkdotaylor Registered Users Posts: 1,280 Major grins
    edited February 7, 2014
    Love these...so cute, especially #2 and #5.
    Kate
    www.katetaylor.smugmug.com
    "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain
  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited February 7, 2014
    Different fathers? :D

    Sam
    www.samlinvillephotography.com
  • HackboneHackbone Registered Users Posts: 4,027 Major grins
    edited February 7, 2014
    The little one was the runt of the litter and they liked him so much they took him also. Thanks all.
    Charles
    www.cameraone.biz
  • Gary752Gary752 Registered Users Posts: 934 Major grins
    edited February 7, 2014
    Hackbone wrote: »
    Lately I've been reading on several forums that folks are stealing files and posting them as their work. You might want to start adding your logo to the image just in case.

    Where I work, we had a Chinese company steal photos off our website, then turned around and tried to sell us tools using our own photos. While having a logo/text watermark on your photos, it will only keep honest people from stealing your photos. Anyone with modest Photoshop skills can remove your logo/watermark and replace it with theirs. What I have started doing this year, besides the usual watermark and adding in the copyright info in the meta data, I'm zooming in to 300% or greater, and then typing in my name with the smallest size font possible, slightly lighter in color than where I'm typing it, usually somewhere in a shadowed area. Then when it is zoomed out to normal viewing size, it is unnoticeable. I showed the last group of photos I did at work that had this done to my boss to see if he could find the company initials. When I finally showed him how to find them, he was impressed at how easy it is to hide it. If you do something like this, I recommend you pick a certain area, and use that area for all your photos so you will be able to go to it if you have show proof that one of your photos was stolen when in court.

    GaryB
    GaryB
    “The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!” - Ansel Adams
  • HackboneHackbone Registered Users Posts: 4,027 Major grins
    edited February 7, 2014
    Agreed Gary, my metadata is there and I like you idea!!
    Charles
    www.cameraone.biz
  • Gary752Gary752 Registered Users Posts: 934 Major grins
    edited February 7, 2014
    Hackbone wrote: »
    Agreed Gary, my metadata is there and I like you idea!!

    As with watermarks/logos, meta data can be stripped out as well. Some editing software does it automatically. I thought for a while when I was told about what happened at work, on ways to be able to identify my photos should the watermark or meta data be removed, and that was what I came up with. For the photos I do at work, in the meta data I list myself as the photographer and copyright holder, and that the photo is licensed to the company. In the event that one of the companies that sells our tools requests a copy of a particular photo for their catalogs, I will make a copy of the photo and change the meta data to reflect that the photo is licensed to them. You can never be too careful!!!

    GaryB
    GaryB
    “The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!” - Ansel Adams
  • divamumdivamum Registered Users Posts: 9,021 Major grins
    edited February 7, 2014
    Major AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW iloveyou.gif
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  • MitchellMitchell Registered Users Posts: 3,503 Major grins
    edited February 10, 2014
    These are great. I really like #6.

    Any thoughts about removing their collars for these shots? I ask because I'm always drawn to my new pup's blue collar in photos. What is the proper collar etiquette for portraits?
    Mitch
    http://clearwaterphotography.smugmug.com/
  • HackboneHackbone Registered Users Posts: 4,027 Major grins
    edited February 10, 2014
    Mitch, later I want to enter #6 into competition and will remove the collar as the judges will comment about that, however I always ask the client what they prefer and she wanted to keep the collar. Don't know if they play a particular significance or not. Sometimes there is collar rub on the fur and it doesn't fluff out well so that might have been the case. The client rules when they are paying, I will advise but the last decision is theirs.
    Charles
    www.cameraone.biz
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