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Please Don’t Steal Photographs
The American Society of Media Photographers New York Chapter has created a new campaign: “Don’t Screw Us”
Don’t Screw Us.org Manifesto
1. Photographs are Intellectual Property and therefore have value to the creator. If you are tempted to steal, that is because you recognize the value of the IP and are not respectful of the value of efforts of the creator. That’s not right.
2. Just because a photo is posted on the Internet, it is not free. It wasn’t put there so you can simply take it. It was put there to share an idea, promote talent and gain attention. You can’t walk into a museum space or a gallery space and walk out with whatever strikes your fancy. Cyberspace is no different.
3. There are laws in place that protect Intellectual Property and they come with penalties. These penalties are exponentially worse than paying to use the work and acknowledging the creator. Exponentially is a lot.
4. Professional photographers are just like you. We have families to feed and mortgages to pay. Stealing takes food off the table. Times are tough thank you very much.
5. If contacted directly, a professional photographer can be very accommodating, get involved and help you make your project better making you and your client look better. And who doesn’t want to look better?
6. Stealing. Not cool. How did you feel last time someone pirated one of your ideas or advertising concepts. Sucks huh?
7. That photo you are thinking of stealing took time to make. Sure the shutter snapped in a fraction of a second, but there are years of hard work, education and talent invested in it. Stop for a moment and consider that please.
8. Speaking of investments. That photo wasn’t taken with an iPhone or a disposable camera. Not that the iPhone isn’t great for snapping pics of your BFF. Professionals have significant investments in cameras, lights, computers and software. These things are costly to own, upgrade and maintain. Remember that next time you are looking at our work.
9. We are passionate about what we do and we hope you feel the same way about what you do. Passion brings respect. We respect that you are potential clients and future collaborators. We want to work with you. We hope you want to work with us too. By the way, if the project is Work for Hire please let us know upfront. We can’t respect you if you try to sneak one by us.
10. Some things were meant to be free. Human beings, primo parking spaces, unsolicited advice about your love life. And yes, even occasionally photos. Just ask.
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Oct 14th, 2009
Project 365 – Day 43
Jurassic Foot
I love playing with Pico de Gallo (my son Aidan). Today it was dinosaurs (yes, that’s *his* foot). He giggled the entire time.
Shot with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 and post-processed with Adobe Lightroom 2.2 and Photoshop CS3.
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Feb 12th, 2009
Project 365 – Day 42
Self Portrait #1
I don’t have many photos of myself. Same old story for a photographer… they’re usually taking everyone else’s picture. When I do come across a photo of myself, I’m usually very critical of it… like most people. BTW, I titled this “Self Portrait #1″ — I’m only 42 days into this project… they’ll probably be more.
Personally, this is not my favorite self portrait. If I look angry, I was. About what? I don’t remember. I guess that’s how important it was. My cuts and bruises from my mugging incident are pretty much healed, but my hair is still a little messed up (did I mention that the NYC EMT’s cut ~2″ off the top front when they treated me?!).
Either way, Day 42 was an *exciting* day… job hunting, a haircut, new drivers license, lunch with Aidan & Doreen, new health insurance, and I’m about to break out the new Wii Fit — and it’s about time cause I need to lose some weight!!
Shot with a Panasonic Lumix DMC- LX3. Post-processed in Adobe Lightroom 2.2 and Photoshop CS3. Kodak T-Max 3200 film grain added with DxO FilmPack v1.2.
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Feb 11th, 2009
Project 365 – Day 38
The Emotions
Wasn’t feeling too well today, so not much opportunity to take some pics. Shame too… it was a nice day outside. What I did do was sift through more of the older prints I found the other day.
This pic was from April 25, 1985 when my band, The Emotions, competed in The Battle of the Bands at Trenton State College (ahem, now known as The College of New Jersey). It wasn’t really *my* band, but I was the drummer. Fun times.
I also found the audio recording from the concert (on cassette) and transferred it to MP3. Here we are covering The Who’s “Shakin’ All Over” and one of our own tunes “Ashen Beach”:
The Emotions – Battle of the Bands – April 25, 1985
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Feb 7th, 2009