Can we talk about watermarks? I'm not talking about the early watermarks that are like shutterstock all over the screen, I'm talking about subtle watermarks using the example in the post. Are they utterly fucking pointless? I'm not famous or anything. No one knows who I am. I'm not delusional and I know everyone steals everything online and can crop everything out whenever they want. Still, I'd like to someday maybe do photography for more than a hobby and, if something like the sample of Vesper Lynd here makes it easier for someone/anyone to find me and my pictures, is it in any way worth it whatsoever? Or should I just post to a single social media account in the hopes that the people who care about that stuff eventually trace it back to me?
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You ever notice how 95% of the time the people who watermark their photos are the worst photographers?
I've never put watermarks on my photos. You're not going to get a job in photography by putting your name on your photos because nobody is ever going to give a shit. Your photos will get stolen, and if you watermark them it will either get cropped out or shopped out.
If you want to make a career out of photography then you need to put together a portfolio. Make a website and put your best work on there. Approach businesses, people, models, and other photographers. Show them your portfolio. If it's good enough they'll hire you. That's how you get a job as a photographer.
Proof that you're wrong.
What a piece of absolutely oversaturated utter shit-eating image.
you just got memed on by the rock bruh
Who is kenrockwell? I just went to his website and his photos are atrocious
The worst photographer you can imagine. He's a big meme in the online community since he's not at all self aware and just shills stuff since companies pay him for reviews (which he always gives things 10/10 every single time).
He's notorious for over editing EVERYTHING. Over saturation, terrible filters on portraits, terrible framing etc.
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Why does a fat talentless hack like Ken get paid to take bad photos and I can't even get a single client.
This is suffering.
Never underestimate the power of a brand name. He may be garbage but he's made a name for himself, even if it's from being a laughing stock.
>using famous person's name in the OP
Ask me how I know you're an autist and can immediately tell that you only made the thread as a way to cope about said person's existence.
How about you fuck off, stop overly analysing meaningless concepts from people that you couldn't care more about and actually do something worthwhile.
These fucking threads are always a cope about some famous person who I and honestly (You) couldn't give two shits about, but here you are bitching about it on Wyato. This is significantly worse than the 20th gearfag thread.
t. butthurt pajeet tired of paintbrushing watermarks
>triggered by other peoples watermarks
Sorry your life is that empty
Adding a watermark always detracts from the photo itself. You could add your information into digital photo as metadata.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata#Photographs
>implying this shit works these days
No on will likely save your original upload. Either websites themselves will purge the meta data for safety, or when they are compressing the shit out of it and convert it to .webp or what the current flavor of the month format will be. Or the zoomer looking at it will just screenshot it on their phone. Or a combination of both, were the website/app doesn't allow for saving so said zoomer won't even have a choice other than to screenshot it.
I fucking hate the modern web...
i used to put my name on my photos, im glad i stopped shortly after, its so fucking stupid.
>the perfectly fuckworthy israelite
Would incinerate.
Would incinerate her with my semen, if you know what I mean.
am i the only one here who wants people to know who i am? to know my work?
No of course not, but putting a watermark on your photos is not the way to go about it.
What's the right way then?
Display them on your fucking toilet you retard. What do you think?
It's your own damn page on this shithole we call internet.
I know and can recognize the work of dozens and dozens of different photographers, and none of them watermark their work.
Out of all the photographers you follow, are inspired by, etc, how many of them watermark all their stuff?
>following other people
I'm too busy working on my own craft you braindead American
>how many of them watermark all their stuff?
The only one that matters, Ken.
Make em big and bright, cover as much of the photo as possible to prevent theft
Again, I think you guys are misunderstanding me because I said watermark. That was probably the wrong word to use. I'm talking about the thing in the top right of the OP image. As a total and complete unknown, would you not label your work using that example on the OP.
>I'm talking about the thing in the top right of the OP image
Yes that's called a watermark dickhead.
>As a total and complete unknown, would you not label your work using that example on the OP.
Only if you're a shit photographer who think they're better than they actually are therefore for some reason requiring your name plastered on dogshit photos.
Watermarks are for self marks who never drew a dime with photography so they try to get themselves over by slapping their name all over the photo. Thing is, no matter how big or obnoxious they make the watermark they'll still never draw a milly
holy fucking shitballs that out of focus background is jarring, not even plastic lenses for micro four turds have such a terrible gradient
they look like shit and they're pointless as hell
Seek help or ngmi
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t. cuck
I've made my own Font for such a purpose
They're for people who think others are going to steal their cabbage photos, or think people will be so thought provoked by an otherwise forgettable image that they'll just absolutely want to go find their instagram.
The real trick is to take photos that either
a) People can't prove they took, or
b) Nobody would ever use
I always tell the models they have free use of the photos with credit, and with few exceptions, nobody has ever really used them for anything.
>I always tell the models they have free use of the photos with credit, and with few exceptions, nobody has ever really used them for anything.
You don't say...
It coincides with them usually being disappointed about how they look.