[MR] SCA photos

[Sandra Rangel]

Well, your Grace, you do have the equipment and skill (note: ha! head
out of the gutter people!!) and it is shown in your ebonwoulfe page
with all the massive amounts of fighter video footage you host (in
really good quality too). And not only that you put nifty little
paragraphs telling people what the videos are of; all for the fee of
*free*- I don't even see a place where you ask for donations for the
cost of hosting the webpage which is out of your personal funds if I
am correct?

As a photographer (amateur) I do take photos at events and would find
it slightly crass to demand payment for pictures I took of people.
There only exception is if I altered the picture or pictures in such a
matter that it became more a piece of original artwork.

~Rohesia



On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:46 AM, logan <logan at ebonwoulfe.com> wrote:
> i understand that there is a lot of time involved (well, not intimately as i
> dont posses the skill nor the equipment to do so).  my objection is to the
> practice of demanding someone pay you money for a picture they took of you
> without you asking them to do so (take the picture) and was merely
> forewarning that the practice rubs a lot of people the wrong way.  i know of
> a few sites that host images that ive visited that when you click on an
> image you get a popup window that says something akin to "dont try to steal
> my images, click on the pay now button if you want it".  seems rude to
> charge someone for a picture of them.  i have asked for a copy before and
> ive never once had someone demand payment so i dont think the intent is to
> be rude.
>
> anyway, its just my opinion and one that i know a lot of people share.  and
> you do take lovely pictures and im sure lots of folks agree that it is
> always a pleasure to see the images you capture.
>
> regards
> logan
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
> [mailto:atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Lydia
> Leovic
> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:37 AM
> To: atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
> Subject: [MR] SCA photos
>
> Your Grace, et. al.,
>
> As someone who enjoys taking and sharing photos at SCA events and for
> related SCA purposes, there is still a good deal of personal time required,
> even in the digital age, to organize and upload pictures, let alone take a
> decent shot.
>
> While someone who paid money to attend an SCA event might not want to later
> pay for their photo, which is their perrogative, the flipside to this
> situation is that the photos shared online are not implicitly free for the
> taking--despite the fact that technology would make it seem so--especially
> if one wants to re-publish that photo on another website.  Giving the
> photographer a photo credit at the very least, is simply common courtesy.
>
> I always appreciate it when people ask me for permission to republish a
> photo I have taken, and all I ask for in return is a photo credit.
>
> Of course there is no real way to police whether someone has copied another
> photographer's original work and not at least given them a photo credit, but
> a habit of not doing so illustrates to me a disregard for the value of
> someone else's "intellectual property." (I am not a copyright lawyer, just
> trying to make a point.)
>
> My only strategy to protect my photos is to not publish full-size digital
> photos on the internet.  If someone wants a quality print, they need to at
> least ask me for the original file, which I am typically willing to share.
>
> Many people have expressed to me that they enjoy seeing the photos I take at
> events, and I am happy to share these.  Their thanks is the reward.
>
> YIS,
> Lidia de Ragusa
>
>
>
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> *I* need to give a proper photo credit here to Baron Bardulf for my
> portrait!!)
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