Re: czaphotography.com website up

I've sent invoices in the past few months to two people who have used my
work from the web without permission, one on a commercial web site, and
the other in a magazine. No problem with size on the web of course, in
the magazine the image was printed at around 3x2 inches from a 600x400
pixel image.

Money is now in my bank from 2 sales, the main one of which I would
almost certainly not have made if the images had been protected on the
web. I charged them the full 'normal' commercial rate for their usage
and they paid, one with profuse apologies (which I believe) for his
oversight, the other rather grudgingly. Often clients will haggle and
get a considerable discount, but these guys were in no position to do so.

Of course there almost certainly will be people who have used pictures
without me finding out, but I suspect these are mainly non-commercial
usage which I would have allowed anyway at no cost.

But no, there is no way you can make anything approaching a good
original print from a 600x400 pixel image, although your images may get
used in other ways.

Regards

Peter Marshall
petermarshall@cix.co.uk
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My London Diary http://mylondondiary.co.uk/
London's Industrial Heritage: http://petermarshallphotos.co.uk/
The Buildings of London etc: http://londonphotographs.co.uk/
and elsewhere......

Loris Medici wrote:
> Wow! Don, what interpolation program are you using? Must be a very good
> one since you can make good quality (not instantly obvious that it's a
> repro) inkjet prints from a 400 - 500 pixel image (in the longest
> dimension) ;)
>
> Seriously, according to you is there the risk of someone making good
> quality and reasonably sized repros (see the criteria above) from
> 500-600 pixels images one shows in the web? According to my knowledge
> this pretty unlikely.
>
>
> Regards & TIA,
> Loris.
>
> P.S. The old/plain Print-Scrn trick works, therefore I take your comment
> as a warning to Christina...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Bryant [mailto:dstevenbryant@mindspring.com]
> Sent: 22 Haziran 2006 Perşembe 17:18
> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> Subject: RE: czaphotography.com website up
>
>
> Yeah but I can't capture the images so I can print them on my inkjet
> printer!
>
> Don Bryant
>
>
>
Received on 06/23/06-03:57:25 AM Z