The Photographers Q&A

[smee]

Thanks very much

[bingoking]

I note that a number of photographs have the photographer's name and copyright logo in the corner.

Q1. Is there a piece of software that you guys use to batch process or do you add the logo and name to every photograph?

[fd]

I note that a number of photographs have the photographer's name and copyright logo in the corner.

Q1. Is there a piece of software that you guys use to batch process or do you add the logo and name to every photograph?

Adobe Lightroom does this (in fact it ill take the copyright information from the image metadata and embed it automatically if you ask it), I would also expect you could get photoshop to do this as a batch action, but I don't do photoshop (too complicated and expensive, lightroom does everything I need for 99.999% of images).

Fd

[Rag_It]

I do mine individually if I think any of them could be used by anyone for commercial benefit. Usually just landscape shots to be honest that could be whipped from my Flickr account. Honestly short of locking down your Flickr account completely, I think it is very hard not to stop photos being downloaded and used.

You rely on honesty, if someone was to take a picture of yours without asking and you found out that they had used this in a commercial environment, then you are well within your rights i believe to start court proceedings and look for compensation. I think you would persue them first before court action!

The long and the short of it is, that as your personal possessions (photos) become more freely available, you like to look for feedback and C&C, so by putting your name and a copyright symbol up there, you are at least giving someone the chance to find you should they wish to use your picture for something!

Brian, as Fergus has mentioned, Photoshop will also do it, and there was a tutorial on the web on how to add it, but effectively i think it is just a copy paste type affair once you have it designed.

Cheers,

Dave

[fd]

Seriously, ditch photoshop . . . it's as much overkill as driving in a full nomex romper suit including gloves and boots to the local supermarket in your ferrari . . . as I saw in California last week . . .

Fd

[tut]

First of all I am not a photographer, do not even have a camera.

However I would have thought it was fairly simple, if you are a professional photographer you can protect your photos by overlaying and preventing hi res copies. If you are a snapper as most of you are what does it matter if your pics are posted around what are enthusiasts sites? You posted them to be looked at. Most of us would state the source if we used them, so again, what is the problem?

tut

[bingoking]

It was merely out of interest I asked about the copyright logo and name on the photograph.
I am not a professional photographer and I am therefore not trying to protect my income but I would like to personalise my photographs.
I have been on websites in the past where the photographs or artwork are locked down so you can't download them so it is possible to protect your work if you want to.
As I understand it the copyright remains with the photographer in any event whether it is marked with a copyright logo or not.

I have only recently uploaded a whole bunch of motor sport photographs to Flickr as I find it much better than Photobucket. More will follow.
You are welcome to check them out and post comments.

[flat-planedCrank]

I note that a number of photographs have the photographer's name and copyright logo in the corner.

Q1. Is there a piece of software that you guys use to batch process or do you add the logo and name to every photograph?

Personally, I use photoshop to bung a logo to the bottom of each photo.

Think quite a few RAW converters, such as lightroom, will allow you to stamp an image when exporting these days.




Watermarks are worryingly often discussed on photographic forums

In their defence I'd also say that quite often images are used on others forums, so a small message displaying the source of the image is sometimes a good idea



Cheers.

[duggiesmith]

Anyone got any tips for a decent point and shoot digital camera?

I'm looking for something pretty simple and lightweight but that will take decent pics (needs to be compact enough to fit in a pocket or not take up much space in a rucksack). I've noticed most have a 3x optical zoom, but are there decent models with a larger optical zoom (I've heard digital zoom is pointless you lose some of the quality).
I had a budget of around £200 in mind but would be prepered to go over if it was worth it.

Cheers

[AJT]

Bought a Canon Powershot SX200 from Jessops a few moths ago, just used it on holiday in Vancouver and managed to get some good shots.

[smee]

Old model Canon ixus200 reduced most places for £299 to £185, got one for a friends leaving present, decent enough pics from a very compact camera. My brother has a panasonic lumix, 10x optical zoom and better image quality than you would imagine from a compact, around the £200 mark but lots of model variants. Both cope well with difficult conditions, only -ve for panasonic is spare batterys very difficult to obtain so may be obselete in a few years.

[duggiesmith]

Thanks for the tips. Eventually settled for a Panasonic Lumix TZ7 (£242 from dixons.co.uk)
It seems to get a lot of good reviews and has a 12X optical zoom.
Not had a chance to take any decent pics yet, but it seems to tick all the right boxes.

Need to get out and about and get snapping now.

[smee]

Budget SLR Advice

Mother in law to be wants to buy father in law to be a DSLR after he got camera envy last time we were visiting. I would have thought EOS 450d or 500d, not too fussed about video TBH though. 1000d seems a too budget and kit lens isn't IS or USM so seems false economy. The kit lens on 450/500doesn't seem to have much range but any fans here?

I know nothing about Nikon, any die hard Nikon fans here want to fight your corner?

Budget would be about £500

[Rag_It]

I'd have a look at the D3000 as well, got good reviews from memory.Some good deals on 450D's as well though.
http://www.jessops.com/online.store/cat ... /Show.html

Cheers,

Dave

[graeme]

I got a 18-200 IS with my 500D as a kit. Best price I can find online is £799 here:

http://simplyelectronics.net/mainproduct.php?pid=6932

Jessops will be probably still be £999.

The 18-200 IS is good for days when you only want to take one lens with you. It has barrel distortion at the very wide end, and it's a bit dark at the zoom end, but it's a good all-rounder.