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exarch said:
Were they on facebook? And did they have people other than the folks on stage in them?

If the answer to both those questions is "no", then I have a fair idea what the problem might be.
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People use facebook for photography? That's a terrible decision. Facebook reams photos. It destroys them. It turns them into muddy, washed out and blurry squares and then claims ownership of them. No one serious about photography puts photos they care about on Facebook.

And I don't know what you mean by the second point. Most of my work is candids.
 
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I didn't say the photo's on facebook would be what people would be interested in downloading or owning. But once people start tagging others they know, the pictures in question start showing up on their profiles too, and more people find their way to them. Facebook gives you the exposure you seem to have been lacking until now ...

I propriety is your issue, a friend of mine adds an e-mail address watermark to all his pictures, so people can mail him if they want the full resolution versions (or simply the versions without the watermark).

Or you just link to your Flickr gallery from the discription of the pictures in your facebook album and let people sort it out for themselves. That's what a number of others did.
 
exarch said:
I didn't say the photo's on facebook would be what people would be interested in downloading or owning. But once people start tagging others they know, the pictures in question start showing up on their profiles too, and more people find their way to them. Facebook gives you the exposure you seem to have been lacking until now ...
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I actually have fairly good exposure (for a low profile photographer like myself), just not in the skeptics crowd. Is the skeptical crowd really so low-tech that it still centers on facebook?

If that's the case, I suppose I can do that. Feels weird tho.

exarch said:
I propriety is your issue, a friend of mine adds an e-mail address watermark to all his pictures, so people can mail him if they want the full resolution versions (or simply the versions without the watermark).
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I don't like watermarks. But even if I did, your friend is wrong that it protects him. When you post to facebook, you give them unlimited republishing and modification rights.
 
KirinDave said:
I actually have fairly good exposure (for a low profile photographer like myself), just not in the skeptics crowd. Is the skeptical crowd really so low-tech that it still centers on facebook?
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I don't know. I can only speak for myself though, but on facebook you don't even have to go looking for pics of yourself, they just show up when someone else tags you in them, and then you can click on to the album and see the rest of them. It's the easiest way when you don't have the time to go slogging through dozens of albums each with hundreds of pictures.
 
I don't know. I can only speak for myself though, but on facebook you don't even have to go looking for pics of yourself, they just show up when someone else tags you in them, and then you can click on to the album and see the rest of them. It's the easiest way when you don't have the time to go slogging through dozens of albums each with hundreds of pictures.
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Which makes it even sadder that I was at TAM8 Wednesday - Monday and EVERYWHERE and I think I'm only tagged in 3 pictures. BooHoo.
 
KirinDave said:
I actually have fairly good exposure (for a low profile photographer like myself), just not in the skeptics crowd. Is the skeptical crowd really so low-tech that it still centers on facebook?
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Facebook isn't about sharing photography, per se, it's about a social network facilitated by pictures of people. Being able to tag people in photos is part of that; you get notified if you get tagged, and you can let other people know they are in a picture by tagging them.

I don't like watermarks. But even if I did, your friend is wrong that it protects him. When you post to facebook, you give them unlimited republishing and modification rights.
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I don't think it was claimed that the watermarking was there for protection, except perhaps in a minor way, but as a means of letting anyone who wanted a better quality version of the picture where to get it.
 
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I don't like watermarks. But even if I did, your friend is wrong that it protects him. When you post to facebook, you give them unlimited republishing and modification rights.
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zooterkin said:
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I don't think it was claimed that the watermarking was there for protection, except perhaps in a minor way, but as a means of letting anyone who wanted a better quality version of the picture where to get it.
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Watermarks have several purposes. One is for ID of the photographer (as in the post), the other is to help ensure that other parties do not use the published photos without the photographer's permission. You would be a rather strange person to frame a low res picture with the word COPYRIGHT across the middle.
 
Royalty Free Photos from Tam8

Free for all to use. :)

ericbroze.com/2010/the-amazing-meeting-8-photos-for-download/
 
ericbroze said:
Free for all to use. :)

ericbroze.com/2010/the-amazing-meeting-8-photos-for-download/
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Thanks, Eric! Is it possible to add tags? I can see some photos already tagged, but can't see a way to add one (I'm in the background in a couple of them, and I recognise a couple of other people too).
 
Good job Ericbroze. I'm in the background of 5, so I do have proof I was there. I look pretty awlful in most of them (4) so I won't be printing any. boohoo.

I love the caption of the last picture on the slide btw.
 
Eric Boze - TAM8 images

I would be happy to tag anyone in the photos, just leave a comment on the photo itself, zooterkin.
 
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