Watermarking Photographs

November 18, 2009 | Filed Under News, Photography | Leave a Comment 

Photography has gotten a lot easier these days with digital cameras and their auto settings and I’ve seen people carry around digital SLRs instead of old point and shoots more and more.  When I took a black and white film photography class, the countless hours I spent in the darkroom developing film, developing prints, and printing prints made me realize how much more I’d rather work in the digital photography format than with film; though some found the darkroom therapeutic, I did not.

As with film photography, I don’t “print” my photos as-is, but with adjustments.  The camera never captures what the eyes truly see; Ansel Adams did a lot of dodging and burning on his photographs.

My post-processing workflow involves reviewing and selecting photos, color and lighting adjustments, captioning and keywording/tagging. and publishing.  And then there’s the time spent taking the photograph with consideration for composition and lighting.  This is not just for my digital SLR photographs, but I do the same with my point and shoot photographs.

So when someone downloaded my photographs from Flickr and included them in their own photo album passing them of as their own (albeit unintentionally), I felt as if the time I spent on my photos had been stolen, too. Read more