I’ve been wondering this morning whether I should investigate selling some of my photos… and how to go about doing it.
I got an email this morning from a news service asking to use my tiger cub photo on their site. It’s a Web 2.0 news service. They seem to trawl the net looking for photos, they then ask to use them and you post your story about it too. I was in 2 minds whether to post the photo there, but decided that I’ve got nothing to lose really.
The photo is already on Flickr and Blogger. And I’ve got the watermark on it.
There’s no way that someone would be able to get the original photo data from it either. The way that I do the framing removes the photo data, so they would not be able to see when it was actually taken or which camera was used.
As far as the framing topic is concerned, I was going to change the way I frame the photos just so that the data could be kept. But I’ve changed my mind. Des, has recently had an altercation with a commenter on her blog who downloaded her photos and then compared the data and questioned her work!! Not that there was any reason to doubt her work, because the textures she’d used had masked the data.
But anyhoo, what was mind blowing, was that within less that five minutes, the photo had 35 views already!
Oooh, and I also want to investigate Pbase. I got sent the link by a colleague who thinks I need to post photos there too.
Sometimes the power of the .net worries me, but I’ve also got this ego thing going, and I’m proud of my work, and I want people to see it.
Ok, now I’m just rambling again… over and out!
