It’s been interesting to see how people are operating in relation to Copyright versus Creative Commons. Brian Auer ran a counter point article to my Creative Commons: A Great Concept, I’ll Never Employ article and received 500+ Diggs to my 10 Diggs. Yet according to my poll (see below) the vast majority (68%) of respondents are leveraging a straight “All Rights Reserved” license. Brian also ran an
Something I meant to share last Friday that ties in my previous posts on copyrights. The following case both exemplifies the impact of copyrighting and not copyrighting your photography. Appeals Court Confirms Photographer’s Rights in Case – imaginginfo.com Amazing to think that there could be any claim that using an image in a collage is acceptable after agreeing to a previous licensing agreement definin
This weekend I had the opportunity to watch “This Film Is Not Yet Rated” and I really enjoyed it. Although focused on movies and the film industry the topics of censorship, copyright and new technology are quite relevant to photographers. If you haven’t seen it I highly recommend renting it. One of the first thoughts I had after watching the movie was my realization that I had a love-hate relationsh
For those of you that are unaware today is the first day that the Library of Congress is accepting applications to Beta test a new electronic submission system. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I’ll be selected to take part. It will definitely make my life easier and will speed the process by which I register my photographic work. It should also be noted that one of the benefits of electronic submissio
New Registration Fees are in Effect Electronic submission via the Electronic Copyright Office (eCO) now costs $35 Registration with paper forms now cost $65 As an offshoot to my article “Flickr + _Rebekka + Availability of High Resolution Images = Nightmare” I thought it might be beneficial to go into greater detail about what I do to protect my work using copyrights and why. First I will say that I am no
Avoid downtime with these 6 steps to keep your Lightroom Catalog in tip top shape: 1. Know Where Your Catalog Resides Lightroom saves catalogs in the following folders: Windows: \Users\[user name]\Pictures\Lightroom Mac OS: /Users/[user name]/Pictures/Lightroom When in doubt check here: (Mac OS) Lightroom > Catalog Settings (Windows) Edit > Catalog Settings 2. Save Metadata to Your Files To save metadata
At the close of every year I like to take a look at the web metric trends on my web site via Google Analytics and forecast how I might need to adapt over the coming year(s). Yesterday I reviewed the trends of mobile web traffic and today I’ll dive into the larger trends of referring traffic from social media web sites. If you’re familiar with my past writing on social media trends and strategies you’
Instagram has been the source of a lot of debate and even the butt of jokes with in the photography community. I’ve written an article in Digital Photo Pro magazine discussing the potential Instagram offers to photographers of all levels. Check out the article, Make Use of Instagram and I invite you to follow me on Instagram. Also if you’ve missed my other Digital Photo Pro articles you can find them here: Mov