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Photocritic have a very interesting post titled “What do you do when they nick your photos?”

It’s a reality we all have to deal with when posting our photos online. Obviously the vast majority of us aren’t quite so popular/good that it becomes a huge problem. Yet even as a average photographer, you probably have a few great photos; imagine how you’d feel if someone else made a profit off those at your expense. Or worse; when you complained, you were the one who got censored?

Apart from the obvious “never put your photos online”, how do you stop someone using your images for their own gain. For me the most obvious is don’t give others access to the large resolution photos. Sure they can still steal your 600 pixel wide photos, but they won’t be able to use them for much. Other options include putting a water mark on the image, but the more effective the watermark (i.e. how much of the image it covers), the more it destroys the photos beauty.

Some people might think that proposed new laws might do the trick; but I think these laws miss the point and are more targeted at trying to put kids and their parents into jail. A teenager using your photo as a wall paper for his desktop is not the problem. Companies stealing your photos for profit is the problem, and the laws currently cover that just fine, though they could perhaps benefit from some changes making it easier for an individual to pursue a large company.

I personally use a Creative Commons license for most of my images. I also try to make sure no one can download full resolution versions. And I dread the day I find someone selling my work without my permission. I dread it because it will take effort and money to make them pay, but I sure as hell will do everything in my power to bring them to justice.

Amazon.com acquires dpreview.com

Phil: Today marks an exciting milestone in the history of dpreview.com, everyone here is very much looking forward to being able to do more with Amazon’s help. We’re aiming to expand our product coverage and deliver new site features for our readers and our daily community.

Congratulations to the DPReview team. DPReview was by far the largest set of reviews online (and a regular read for me); I hope with the new corporate support you will be able to review even more cameras.

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Starting June 4th, Strobist will be starting a new free lighting course: Lighting 102. This looks like it is going to be an interesting course, where you get to compare your work with hundreds of others on Flickr. Hopefully once you have done all the assignments, you will have gained an in depth knowledge of lighting on a budget.

I’ll be giving this a go, though time constraints may be a problem. That is fine though, as they are not too strict on attendance.

You’ve seen them, you’ve even read a few tutorials, perhaps you even managed to get one or two HDR images looking about right. Well if you wanted a little more help, Tutorial blog has extensive list of HDR tutorials.

HDR Tutorials Roundup

I remember JPG magazine starting up as print on demand zine shortly after I got my first DSLR. They’ve come a long way since then, eventually moving from POD, at lulu.com, which couldn’t afford to pay the photographers they featured; to a full blown magazine, paying their photographers, and developing a huge fanbase.

Well I decided to enter one of this months theme’s, “You Ready to Rock”, and figured I’d get in some shameless self promotion.

Well for the last few weeks I have been reading photographyvoter.com every day for my photography news. It’s a great site, and I hope it will grow. To grow though, everyone needs to submit links; and I currently find submitting links to it to be slow, having to load up the site separately, copy paste the link to the submit page, etc. I’m lazy, so I often end up not submitting.

To fix this, I decided to modify my bookmarks toolbar word press “Press It” code to work with Photography Voter. Now when you are reading an article that you like, just click the VoteIt button, and you will be taken to the submissions page, with url and title already filled in. I have no idea if this has been already done by someone else, but I couldn’t find it on google, so I figured I’d share.

Drag this PhotographyVoteIt link to your toobar to use it. I’ve tested it in Firefox 2, and IE 7. It should work on other browsers that have a bookmark toolbar, but if it doesn’t feel free to modify.

JMG-Galleries has a nice list of some blogs about photography. It contains a lot of blogs you may never have read before, so worth checking out.

I read about this a while back on Strobist. The infamous ebay remotes are great value for money, but one of their biggest drawbacks is range.

This tutorial provides step by step instructions to adding an external antenna to the ebay remote (v1 I believe, hopefully the v2 version is similar enough). Apparently increasing the line of site by an order of magnitude, this is definitely a simple modification that is well worth the effort.

BLOGGER WANTED! Are you obsessed with cameras, lenses, and other photo gear? Do you know damn near everything there is to know about photo equipment? Do you have strong opinions and are eager to sound off? …
…It’s a freelance gig; the pay isn’t much; but the potential for perks, fame, and the future are amazing. …

Popular Photography want bloggers! While I don’t think I’ll even bother applying, since I don’t write nearly well enough, or regularly enough; I’m sure some of you out there must be interested.