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I had the usual call yesterday morning from an MD of a blue chip company-
“If you want to work with us, just sign the contract. The copyright is all ours, and if you don’t like it, nothing I can do, that is the way it is. We’ll get another photographer, possibly cheaper or that may be will do the work for free in exchange of credits”
……… guess it’s another photographer then.
Last week, ThinkProgress broke the news that both senatorial candidates Sharron Angle (R-NV) and Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) used the same racially-tinged image in separate attack ads against their opponents and described the subjects in the photo as “illegal aliens.” Besides invoking offensive anti-Latino stereotypes, the photographer of the photo, Chris Floyd, later informed the Washington Post that the “illegal aliens” in the picture were actually Mexicans still in Mexico.
Now it appears both ads have been removed from YouTube. Vitter’s is marked as “private,” and Angle’s video has been pulled down due to a “copyright claim by Getty Images, Inc.”
In a phone interview with ThinkProgress, Floyd indicated that he’s still waiting to hear himself what, if any, legal actions Getty Images is pursuing. Floyd explained that he has a contract with Getty which means that they have the “first right to pursue legal action in the event of a copyright violation.”
However, Floyd did seem confident that the Angle and Vitter campaigns are at the very least morally, if not legally, culpable:
I think this is a question of principle. The only legal place they could’ve obtained that image [on the Getty Images website] clearly printed out that the people in the photo were not illegal aliens, but Mexicans in Mexico. That means they either purposefully deceived their audience or they stole the photo from somewhere else.
Whether it was done intentionally or not, Floyd maintains that “they [the Vitter and Angle campaigns] completely distorted the reality of my photo.” …….. Full article is here
I was tweaking a photo for a friend’s antiques store Web site the other day, experimenting with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to adjust the color and add a subtle vignette. I like Lightroom because it doesn’t have the arduous learning curve that Photoshop does, and it’s designed specifically for photographers and photographs.
But I don’t have many tricks in my Lightroom photo-doctoring bag. In fact, everything I was doing I had learned from a brief demonstration by Tyler Stableford, an outdoor sports and adventure photographer who uses Lightroom to make his photos just a bit more dazzling.
via Ten Photo-Editing Tips From a Pro – NYTimes.com.
The art of getting a job and staying on a buyer’s speed dial is as much about your photographic talent as it is about your self-promotional talent.
The compulsive urge to panic while waiting for a job should be recognized as a physical condition. Many times over the last 20 years, I’ve found myself on the edge of a complete breakdown, spending huge money on promo campaigns, e-mails and sourcebooks as I try to figure out the magic method for getting noticed by the people with the work. There were times when resources ran low and the whole effort seemed overwhelming. Then, out of the blue, often on the day that I was using the same coffee filter for the third time, a phone call.
It’s dazzling how many theories there are about what goes on behind closed doors to select photographers for the next big ad campaign. Some say voodoo, others say sex. My ex-agent says sourcebooks, phone calls and cocktails. This article is about the naked truth—what happens on the other side. Why will an art buyer suddenly pick up the phone and say, “We’d love to see your book”?
Read the all article here
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