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Just another dev hack.
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May 14 |
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Licensing for wedding photos, to protect photographer, but allow freedom to clients? @PeterSerwylo -- that's precisely what I meant by the conservational aspect of file transfer. It is normal for a photographer to supply (sometimes, but not always, at an additional fee) high-rez files (or duplicate negs, in the old days) for replacement purposes after the print sale period has lapsed (usually at the anniversary). But those files don't come with automatic rights to modify the image, nor should they be expected to. (The "what would it take to reproduce in the future?" argument is spurious; that doesn't require modifying the image.) |
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May 14 |
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Licensing for wedding photos, to protect photographer, but allow freedom to clients? ...right specifically. And no artist with any stylistic integrity will sell that right. |
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May 14 |
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Licensing for wedding photos, to protect photographer, but allow freedom to clients? @Nir -- Photography is no differnt from the other arts. You can, of course, negotiate your way into ownership of the IP or the equivalent in licensing terms, but that's exceptional and should be considered such. When you buy a book or a music album, it comes with the ability to sell the physical object, but you don't automatically get reproduction rights, and you certainly don't get automatic rights to create derivative works. Photography isn't merely a commodity service, or even a luxury service, it's an artistic endeavour, and you don't have the right to alter the art unless you buy that... |
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May 14 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on How to deal with large exposure shifts during time lapse? |
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May 14 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Do you still need an ultra wide angle if you can now stitch images? |
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May 13 |
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Licensing for wedding photos, to protect photographer, but allow freedom to clients? @Nir - Again, the customer is paying for a finished work. We aren't snapshooters, and the part we're playing was previously played by painters. If you can't understand your contribution as anything other than "ready, aim, fire", then you probably want to avoid being a professional photographer. |
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May 13 |
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Licensing for wedding photos, to protect photographer, but allow freedom to clients? @Unapiedra - I'm Canadian, and it took us a whole lot of years and a whole lot of work to get our copyright act amended to provide portrait photographers their natural rights to their work. It is backward, and I don't mind pointing that out. Of course, if you prefer being treated as an itinerant trademan, I suppose that's your prerogative. |
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May 13 |
answered | Licensing for wedding photos, to protect photographer, but allow freedom to clients? |
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May 12 |
answered | Can a grey card be used in place of a flash meter? |
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May 12 |
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Canon 60D video records on class 10 SD card before, but does not work now Memory cards aren't forever. And, as mattdm pointed out, formatting is finicky. |
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May 12 |
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Can anyone tell me what camera/lens this is? @Tony - That means it's a 135mm f/3.5 lens. A good, sharp "short telephoto" lens suitable for headshots and portraiture, but rather slow. |
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May 12 |
answered | Can anyone tell me what camera/lens this is? |
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May 11 |
answered | How do I remove the blur in my jewelry picture? |
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May 11 |
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How do you remove the Canon 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM Tripod Collar? Yeah, a tool-free removable ring would sort of defeat the purpose of the Kensington lock slot, wouldn't it? |
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May 11 |
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Use the Nikon D800 to make short YouTube videos & still shots of an owner-build or am I better getting separate video and DSLR cameras at same price? AF for video has long been considered an unwanted special effect. (For that matter, so has AE.) |
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May 10 |
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Use the Nikon D800 to make short YouTube videos & still shots of an owner-build or am I better getting separate video and DSLR cameras at same price? +1 - Far be it from me to talk anyone out of a camera I'd sure like to find at the bottom of my next box of Cracker Jack, but the stuff that makes video interesting (fluid head, smooth focus aids, audio, sliders/jibs) does tend to add up in a hurry. If you don't need gallery-quality 24"x36" prints, the D800 is overkill, and the price differential going down will buy a lot of stuff that will mean more in the end. If there's room in the budget for the D800 when everything else is costed in, go for it. |
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May 10 |
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The “WOW” factor for photojournalism, nature and portrait photography. As Bob Gilka said to Jim Richarson, "kid, if you want to become a better photographer, you're going to have to stand in front of more interesting stuff." |
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May 9 |
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What questions should I ask when looking to hire a photographer? I personally wouldn't touch a "shoot and burn" photographer (someone who would give high-rez digital files and reproduction rights before the event "ages out" without a substantial extra license fee); it indicates that they don't care very much about the presentation of their work, and that's a pretty good proxy for quality concerns overall. |
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May 9 |
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How can I distinguish a Canon IIS2 from a Canon IID2? The "way to hook up a flash", by the way, is an accessory rail on the left-hand side of the camera body, below the strap lug. You won't find a PC terminal or a hot shoe. |
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May 9 |
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What do you call the technique for removing uninteresting parts of photo by combining two images? I believe the two most commonly used terms are post-processing and that's not photography anymore, go away. Depending on who you're talking to at the time, of course. |
