Posted on 06/06/2016 9:27:21 AM PDT by patriot08
My thread, (6/5/16) 'More pics, animated gifs to make you smile' was pulled. Reason given; 'Photos copied and pasted here and not attributed to the photographer nor their publishers are copy right restricted'.
The mods were exactly right to pull it. It was my own fault. We were all just having lots of fun with it, and I just got carried away and posted photos that I'd had in my files for years and had no clue where they came from.
I understand perfectly why we can't do this, and I apologize. I just wasn't thinking.
Let this be a lesson to us all to be more careful about what we post.
My only concern is that some may have gotten the idea that the reason that the thread was pulled was that I and a few others were posting photos that we claimed to have taken, but were actually taken by others- like professional photographers. (I assure you no professional photographer would publish such amateurish photos as the ones I stated that I took)
I regret, since the thread was pulled, losing contact with a few Freepers I met for the first time- like the man who posted all the great photos he had taken.
But, again it was my own fault for not thinking and posting photos from professionals without giving them credit.
For instance, I did some research and found that one of the photos I posted about the statue of Christ and that I had had in my files for years was taken by Reuters!! I just assumed it was taken by a local at the dedication of the statue. Who knew REUTERS would bother coming to a relatively obscure little Texas city to photograph the dedication of a church statue??
Again, let this be a lesson to all of us to be more careful!
Yes. That would be nice.
I’d also like to be able to edit my posts and also a voting up/down on posts like Disqus has.
Since when has FR gone collegiate and pretended like they do to give a rats ass about copyrights??
I had thought it would be a fun thread asking FReepers to post their favorite photos that they had taken, but I guess everyone would be afraid of that now.
We all need a break now and then from all the bad news around the world, and I think fun/silly posts (such as the one pulled) help cheer us up a bit- but it is their site and we are guests who must obey the rules.
No, I’m not the one who posts the Occasional Birdy Threads, that’s Islander7. I Had to go look it up.
To do a watermark, I use Gimp image editing software. It took me a couple of tries to get the size right, but here’s the basics.
Create a new image, whatever size you need. Set the background to transparent. Use the text tool to type up whatever you want, in my case the copyright symbol and name, pick what font, size and color. Save as a JPG file.
When you need it, open that file and copy it to clipboard. Open the image you want to add it to, add it as a layer and move it where you want then save it.
I keep mine in a specific folder normally used for shots I Post online. All original images are still in their original folder unchanged. That way if I need one later for some reason I still have the original, untouched.
I save the original pictures in a folder named for that purpose. My camera is a K30, so I named the first folder K30_00. The camera automatically names pictures IMGP0001 through IMGP9999. Soon as it reaches 9999, I create another folder, K30_01. Then when I save those, they are renamed, image 23 would be IMGP10023. That keeps them in chronological order, and the filename tells me where to find the original. When a folder is finished, at #9999, I copy it to an external hard drive for permanent storage. I have one to copy soon, I just started folder K30_08, which means I’ve taken 80,000 pictures with this camera.
Any pictures saved with a watermark are saved in a different folder, specifically for those intended to post online, although not all are eventually posted. At any given time might have a couple of dozen that have never been uploaded to Flickr.
I do all my basic image editing, which i very little, with Irfan View, a small and fast image editing program that handles the basic stuff very well. Usually all I do is crop 98% of my shots. One or two here and there may get a little sharpening or brightness adjustment if I miss my exposure. Of the 1600 posted to flickr right now, probably 50 or 60 have gotten anything more than just a simple crop.
Then once in a while that folder gets pretty full so that it takes a while to load when I open shots in Gimp to add the watermark, so I also have a number of folders to save shots in specific categories. Those get copied to external drive too periodically. Birds, Flowers, insects, spiders, landscapes, sunsets, etc, each has a folder to go into at some point. I don’t want to know how many are in those...I’ve been adding to them since about 2010.
Then...hehe...I send my sister a few now and then, I save those at desktop size, 1366x768. So there’s another folder for those, and a few others for other reasons.
I have no idea how many shots I have total, I took just over 100,000 before I killed the K-x, and I’m at 80,000 now with the K30, plus a few scans from 20 to 30 year old film shots. Not all of those taken were actually saved, anything out of focus or really bad exposures get deleted, and I’m pretty picky so quite a few are gone in seconds. I’m my own worst critic, which you have to be to be a good photographer. No matter what friends and family tell you, it’s necessary to be able to take an honest look at your own work and cull those that are just plain crap. So anything that’s out of focus, bad exposure, had motion blur, is gone without regrets. the only time I save one of those is if I need something, no matter how bad, to identify a certain bird, insect or flower. For that, I don’t care, I just need to know what it looked like when I pull out my books.
Yeah I know, more info than you needed...lol
These days it's so common that people take pictures of everything for no reason at all.
One thing about the 19th Century, those people must have been hot and sweaty all the time. All those heavy clothes in the middle of summer! And no air conditioning. Below is a photo of the hangings of some of the Lincoln Assassination conspirators - it was a 95 degree day when this photo was taken.
Agreed. Photography was an entirely different art when glass plates were made and then almost immediately used and developed, and when the cost of a single photograph was so high.
Thanks for all the information. Keep an eye out for ‘Occasional Birdy Thread’ and post some of your bird shots!
You’re welcome and I’ll keep an eye open.
Here’s a link to the most recent one. I looked it up in my post list. Some of Islander’s shots too, very good work as well. He’s posted a couple of these threads that I’ve noticed, always some excellent shots. The guy is a very good photographer.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3428484/posts
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