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Q - Whats the best way to make a good watermark for my photos?



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^ Shots were taken at 50mm (nifty) a tad annoyed as the AF is going up the duff i think and atm i cant manual focus for my life :D
& scool boy error as Thursday night 10pm i was out shooting the local xmas lights and left it at iso 1600 :/ blantly forgot to change it back to 100 when i went to local woods this morning at 8am so pics dont look great!!!! Going back there later :D
 
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lol, is it me or does the Robin look like it's sliding off the bin?!

Why do you want a watermark? I see the need for them on commercially sensitive work or for advertising, but beyond that they just clutter up the shot. As you've got CS3 you can create your own with a transparent background (set background contents to transparent), which you can then apply as a layer. Size will depend on how you want to use it, i.e. apply to web sized images or full size? You can do some stuff in Lightroom as well but I haven't looked into that much,
 
Rojin said:
lol, is it me or does the Robin look like it's sliding off the bin?!

Why do you want a watermark? I see the need for them on commercially sensitive work or for advertising, but beyond that they just clutter up the shot. As you've got CS3 you can create your own with a transparent background (set background contents to transparent), which you can then apply as a layer. Size will depend on how you want to use it, i.e. apply to web sized images or full size? You can do some stuff in Lightroom as well but I haven't looked into that much,
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Just want watermark so people don't use my images for something i know the odds of that are slim & also to advertise myself.

& yes the robin & blue tit were sliding off the bin :) seeds had froze ontop of the bin and they were trying to get them i was about 1ft away. I do have an epic fail shot of the robin in mid air falling off the bin :P poor bugger
 
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I'm really struggling to get any sharpness in my snow photos compared to you lot. Example even after sharpening:
18mm on D40, 200s, f/8.0. Think the camera resolution (6MP) letting me down.
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Your picture doesn't look bad at all. It might benefit from a slight and I do mean a very slight increase in exposure and contrast to make the snow a little whiter, but it is a nice shot.

Bear in mind wide angle lenses can be quite soft in the corners no matter what their manufacturer. Secondly also bear in mind the effects of diffraction (which can blur the image) increases as you stop the lens down.

f/8.0 is probably midway through the aparture range of your lens, so the diffraction may not be that bad, but it is worth checking on the Internet to see if you can find a chart that gives the optimal f-stop for sharpness.

Lastly snow is always an awkward subject - due to the way camera metering works and the amount of light being reflected by the snow, they tend to compensated and reduce the shutter speed slightly, end result - greyish snow. Try experimenting with the exposure compensation settings/dial on your camara, typically marked like +/- if you increase the exposure slightly in camera overriding what the camera thinks is the correct setting you'll get better whites. The advantage with Digital cameras is that you can now mess around with those settings and see the results on your screen instantly. Try increasing the exposure between + 1/3rd and +1 stop and see how you get on.
 
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Rojin said:
lol, is it me or does the Robin look like it's sliding off the bin?!

Why do you want a watermark? I see the need for them on commercially sensitive work or for advertising, but beyond that they just clutter up the shot. As you've got CS3 you can create your own with a transparent background (set background contents to transparent), which you can then apply as a layer. Size will depend on how you want to use it, i.e. apply to web sized images or full size? You can do some stuff in Lightroom as well but I haven't looked into that much,
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A couple of days ago I was sat there wondering why a shot of a 18kt gold Parker pen nib was getting the odd hit every so often on my Flickr photostream. It had well over 200 hits and not one single comment. The shot was quite nice, but I thought nothing special.

So I decided to google my user name. I came across the usual flickr pages linking back to my shot, but then further into the list of sites, I came across various webpages linking through to the shot and in other cases some other pictures I had taken.

Now I'm not in the game of making a living out of photography, to me it gets me out of the house and to some nice places on my days off. The pictures on my flickr photostream do have a creative commons licence stating that people can use them as long as they don't alter them, use them for commercial purposes and attribute me with a link back as the creator.

In the case of the pen nib it was being used on a blog with no link back or attibution, so I deleted the picture from my photostream. I've also sent them an email asking for them to take it down since they have not complied with the creative licence.

In the other cases of pictures being used they've been correctly linked back and attributed so I'm fine with that.

This is why people watermark their stuff. If you have a Flickr stream, google your user name.
 
A Watermark won't stop this use though, you'll just have a watermarked image out there, or it will get removed by the more determined. The pics you found by searching for your name, is this not linking back as per the creative commons? I get quite a few "unknown" hits every day, I do wonder sometimes where they come from.
 
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A Watermark won't stop this use though, you'll just have a watermarked image out there, or it will get removed by the more determined. The pics you found by searching for your name, is this not linking back as per the creative commons? I get quite a few "unknown" hits every day, I do wonder sometimes where they come from.
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Yes the determined person will remove the watermark, but it depends where across the image the watermark is and the truely lazy will probably not bother. Will they still use your picture with a watermark? Possibly. The only foolproof way is to only put up low rez photos or tiny shots.

As for the linking back, the links I found were within the google search engine, the searchbots had obviously found my username within the page and then indexed them when you did the search on google itself. In most cases there was a direct link from the actual web page back to my photostream (i.e. a hyperlink along the lines of "Picture by X at Flickr, which took you to the page in the photostream). It was only the shot of the pen nib that wasn't linked back from the page it was on.

It did surprise me where a few of my shots ended up!
 
Took these a couple of years ago around this time. Only on my Fuji S602 which is a compact bus has a good lens and a lot of good features. Unfortunately it needed an inner lens clean...

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Anything I can do in post to improve?
 
I like that Shadowness, real crisp!

Now that the snow has all gone we've been left with fog so here are 2 quick foggy pics from today :)

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