AirWillie6475 From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 2448 posts, RR: 1 Posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 1738 times:
If you're one of the lucky ones who get their photos accepted, PLEASE do not put a watermark ON THE body of the fuselage of the plane. There are dozens of ruined pictures because there is a big airliners.net on the way. If possible don't put a watermark that is visible. Very annoying. Here's an example:
Jajo From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 1726 times:
Well, I thought watermark was supposed to be used to protect rare/special shots. I have noticed that the watermark feature is often used on very common shots, maybe because the photographer finds the logo "cool"? It often ruins good pictures for no obvious reason.
Maybe a.net needs a new reject reason - "watermark", which applies to pictures which have no reason to be protected by the watermark or where the watermark is really badly placed.
Mikephotos From United States of America, joined Oct 2000, 2923 posts, RR: 56 Reply 3, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 1711 times:
Quoting Jajo (Reply 2): Well, I thought watermark was supposed to be used to protect rare/special shots. I have noticed that the watermark feature is often used on very common shots, maybe because the photographer finds the logo "cool"? It often ruins good pictures for no obvious reason.
Maybe a.net needs a new reject reason - "watermark", which applies to pictures which have no reason to be protected by the watermark or where the watermark is really badly placed.
The watermark feature is optional and used to protect any and all photos a particular photog chooses. While there are no stats on which pictures are stolen more (if any), based on my experience, it's often the very common shots that sell better than a rare/special shot.
IIRC, watermarks are not seen by First Class members. If you truly hate the watermark, don't hate the uploader. Just buy First Class
AirWillie6475 From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 2448 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 1707 times:
Isn't there an option of a watermark that is very hard to see?
Mikephotos From United States of America, joined Oct 2000, 2923 posts, RR: 56 Reply 5, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 1695 times:
Quoting AirWillie6475 (Reply 4): Isn't there an option of a watermark that is very hard to see?
Yes, there are different "levels" of intensity. I usually go with the faint or one step above that but each photog chooses his/her own option.
Jajo From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 7, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 1693 times:
Quoting Mikephotos (Reply 3): IIRC, watermarks are not seen by First Class members. If you truly hate the watermark, don't hate the uploader. Just buy First Class
Haha
Well, hate is a powerful word. I don't hate watermarks or the uploaders who use them, but it degrades the experience of the site. Just as an unlevelled or soft photo, a misplaced watermark reduces the value of a photo.
I see your point aswell and I think it is good that you provide features to reduce risk of theft. Maybe that will make some photographers upload shots they normally would keep for themselves because of risk of theft. But I suspect that many photographers use watermarks without being afraid of getting their pictures stolen. I may be wrong.
Jorge1812 From Germany, joined Apr 2004, 3141 posts, RR: 9 Reply 8, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 1683 times:
Quoting Jajo (Reply 7): But I suspect that many photographers use watermarks without being afraid of getting their pictures stolen. I may be wrong.
I think you are. There has been a long debate about watermarks and that 1st class members can see them for 5 bucks a month....
I used them only a few weeks and stopped it because some people dislike them but understand the photogs which pics were stolen that they want to protect them. IIRC Vasco G. had a picture stolen and posted on a site even with the watermark which was chopped off b/c it was at the bottom of the image.
INNflight From Austria, joined Apr 2004, 3765 posts, RR: 62 Reply 9, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 1677 times:
Quoting Jorge1812 (Reply 8): Quoting Jajo (Reply 7):
But I suspect that many photographers use watermarks without being afraid of getting their pictures stolen. I may be wrong.
I think you are.
I think you are.
Jajo, you're probably right, there are quite some uploaders who don't really care about abuse, but just use watermarking as it's a new feature, and somehow neat to be part of that.... at least what I was told twice after emailing a guy who had a photo used w/o permission even though he had a watermark on blue sky..... the point is? None!
I don't think there was any luck involved, just hard work and an investment in equipment.
Quoting AirWillie6475 (Thread starter): PLEASE do not put a watermark ON THE body of the fuselage of the plane. There are dozens of ruined pictures because there is a big airliners.net on the way. If possible don't put a watermark that is visible. Very annoying. Here's an example:
I think the photographers that put the watermark right on the fuselage know exactly what they're doing.
If someone doesn't like the watermark they should just buy a membership.
JeffM From United States of America, joined May 2005, 3266 posts, RR: 53 Reply 13, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 1590 times:
Quoting AirWillie6475 (Thread starter): There are dozens of ruined pictures because there is a big airliners.net on the way. If possible don't put a watermark that is visible. Very annoying.
Don't be such a cheap ass then....and just buy a 1st class memebership.
Do you know what is annoying? Threads like this by people that don't have a clue.
Avsfan From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 250 posts, RR: 2 Reply 14, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 1574 times:
Quoting JeffM (Reply 13): Don't be such a cheap ass then....and just buy a 1st class memebership.
Any photog here that prefers to have the watermark on their photo is working to deter theft of the photo and protecting against copyright infringement. By placing the watermark in the center of the photo (even if it covers an airframe that is depicted in the photo) helps to make it harder to be cut it out using any photo editing software. The same goes for posting photos on other sites, the photog should place a watermark on those photos to help deter against theft and copyright infringement. If someone wants an unmarked copy of any photo in question, then they can notify the photog by any means available. Once that is done, then the photog and the individual asking for the photo can negotiate the deal afterwards.
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FlyFloats From Canada, joined Jan 2005, 43 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 1569 times:
i recently started putting a "very faint" watermark in the middle of all my uploads after finding a surprising number of, how shall we say, unauthorized uses of my a.net photos. No apologies for it, I'm glad for this feature and will continue to use it. Even though I find it slightly distracting to look at a photo with the watermark (not just mine but all watermarked photos) I feel it outweights the risk of not having it there.
CalgaryBill From Canada, joined May 2006, 686 posts, RR: 6 Reply 16, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 1538 times:
Quoting Jorge1812 (Reply 12): You only don't know....do you know for sure.....you can't know exactly.
Georg
I do know. At a previous employer I kept some film at work. Twice it was taken and used for corporate advertising. Once was blatently without my permission (and they re-ran the ad a year later after I complained!), and the second time they used an out-of-town photo of mine to promote the town by falsely labeling the location of the image.
The web isn't the only place people experience image theft, which is exactly why I put watermarks on from the get-go.
How can you know? Do we talk about the same thing. You claim to know none of your pics has been used without permission. You checked every website in the www and had a look on every small advertising in e.g. China?
Normally the Anetters are good in finding out such theft but they can't be everywhere.
Sulman From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2004, 2028 posts, RR: 35 Reply 18, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 1487 times:
I'm not convinced it's fishy. Sounds to me like an enthusiast who doesn't like watermarks, and doesn't understand the theft issue.
For every dishonest individual grabbing images for commercial use, there's thousands of enthusiasts who like the pictures for what they are, and I appreciate they find defacing them a bit sad.
CalgaryBill From Canada, joined May 2006, 686 posts, RR: 6 Reply 19, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1441 times:
Quoting Jorge1812 (Reply 17): How can you know? Do we talk about the same thing. You claim to know none of your pics has been used without permission. You checked every website in the www and had a look on every small advertising in e.g. China?
I thought you meant I can't know what it's like to have pictures stolen, sorry for the confusion. Let me rephrase the comment "I don't know of any of my pictures being stolen." Happy?
Of course I don't know if any pictures have been stolen, I only put the watermark on to reduce the chances. I'm not egotistical enough to even think my pictures are worth stealing, but it doesn't cost anything to watermark them so why wouldn't I?
One of my vehicles is a rusty 13 year old Honda Civic that's on it's last legs. But that doesn't mean I leave the doors open and the key in the ignition.
I put my images up there to share, not as a public service for companies looking for freebies. If people won't look because of the watermark or don't want to buy a membership, that's entirely up to them.
Jorge1812 From Germany, joined Apr 2004, 3141 posts, RR: 9 Reply 20, posted (6 years 5 months 1 week 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 1419 times:
Quoting CalgaryBill (Reply 19):
I thought you meant I can't know what it's like to have pictures stolen, sorry for the confusion. Let me rephrase the comment "I don't know of any of my pictures being stolen." Happy?
Yes....let's take this as an example how problems of simple misunderstandings can be solved without fighting till death
Quoting CalgaryBill (Reply 19):
One of my vehicles is a rusty 13 year old Honda Civic that's on it's last legs. But that doesn't mean I leave the doors open and the key in the ignition.
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