[MR] Atlantia Digest, Vol 80, Issue 54

[Lydia Leovic]

Fen,

Sorry, but I disagree that SCA photographers should make it *easier* for you to download and print pictures they take of you for free so you can post them on your frig.

I'm glad you found SCA pictures of yourself that you liked, but what makes you believe that photographers owe you extraordinary convenience?  I do not believe that it is asking too much to contact the photographer for permission and/or for a file good enough to make prints from.  

Maybe you were being humorous when you suggested this and the humor got past me, and I apologize for that.

Uploading photos that are of a high enough resolution to print takes a long time from a typical home PC.  I resize photos for web publishing not only to limit high quality printing without my knowledge, but also because files right out of the camera are huge and take literally would take hours to upload (I've tried!).

In my experience, photo hosting site (I use Flickr), are the ones making the money when you order prints.  I have never made any money taking SCA photos...I have never tried to.

Your best bet is to politely contact the photographer, as see if they would be willing to provide you with a high resolution photo for printing, then print it yourself (or take it to Walgreens).  Photographers are easily plied with appreciation/compliments.

Or email your mom the link to the SCA photo.

In summary, my primary point to all these postings is that we should strive to give photographers credit.   

There have been several occasions recently, and I don't have to name names, where I have stumbled on to a picture I took that was posted on Facebook or other places online, that was republished without my permission, let alone a credit.  AND in at least two cases, the subjects of the pictures republished were *not* the same as person nicking my pic!

If I know you, and email you a pic of yourself, you have my implicit permission to post it far and wide.  I am not trying to be difficult.

Sorry for all the bandwidth.  I stop now.

YIS,
Lidia
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