Giving away photos advice

Jimmy1983

Jimmy1983

Jimmy1983

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Hi all, iam getting to that stage in photography where friends and family are after getting copies of some of my work. It's mostly close friends and parents, my question is what is the best way to leave my mark on the photos? I've just started using a basic metadata preset in LR. Just with my name and email.

Iam sure many of you have experienced this before, so just after advice really :)
 
For friends and family I just leave a copyright notice in the metadata but as mentioned above you could watermark them if you wanted.
 
I print them out, put them in a fare and give them a nice present.

If I give them a jpeg then my details are the EXIF.
 
Rojin said:
Do you mean watermarks?
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Well possiably, although I think I will give that a miss for the time being.

Guitarman0 said:
For friends and family I just leave a copyright notice in the metadata but as mentioned above you could watermark them if you wanted.
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In the metadata ive got

IPTC Copywrite

Copywrite Copywrite © 2012 James White
Copywrite Status- Copywrited
Rights Usage Terms - No reproduction without prior written consent


IPTC Creator
Name James White
Creator email [email protected]

That seem ok?



D.P. said:
I print them out, put them in a fare and give them a nice present.

If I give them a jpeg then my details are the EXIF.
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Yeah well said presenting them with a framed print is a great idea. Thanks.
 
In slight view of this thread I Went Go-Karting recently, and the company that run it are intrested in the photos that I took. Ive uploaded them to a set in flickr, and was planing on emailing them the photo album link.

The only problem I can foresee is that the company may just download them straight off flickr, can I get round this? Iam sure they wouldnt but you can't be too careful nowadays.

Is there an alternative method?
 
If they can view it online they can copy it... You can watermark but that's not much of a deterrent either although at least you get some advertising :)
 
Rojin said:
If they can view it online they can copy it... You can watermark but that's not much of a deterrent either although at least you get some advertising :)
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Yeah agree, do you always watermark your photos?

Just made this in LR, what do you think? For advertising purposes what else would I need included? Iam by no means saying iam good enough, but would just like to protect my photos where I can.

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No I don't use water marks in general. I think I used them for one football event as I knew the shots would be all over Facebook, nothing ever came from it though.

I take shots a local hill climb, stick 'em up on Flickr and share them. I don't bother with water marks as I don't see anything I produce needing it.
 
Ok thanks. Another quick point, not sure if you will know the answer or not. But will I have to save the original then an additional file with my watermark on in LR? Not sure if its possible to some add the watermark on a seperate temp export, just trying to save HDD space really and time.
 
In flickr, there is the option to disable "right click and save" and downloads to viewers. It's not turned on by default. Mine are set up that way. Of course, someone could always print screen it. Or maybe there's some other way of "stealing" them that I don't know of.
 
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