I enjoy your emails. I like to share my photos with essays I write also. A friend in my art league worried that my photos will be stolen by my posting them in a blog. I make limited income so I can't pay for the thing that doesn't let people save stuff from your blog/ Facebook/ etc. I've resized photos to the smallest mp size good for thumbnails and used them that way. How do you protect your work?
There's no real way to protect our work on the Internet because the companies that profit off of the Internet haven't bothered to develop a real way to protect artists and copyright. Heck, they even steal our work to program their so-called "AI" computer programs. Some people are thieves and they are going to steal. I just don't post the full-sized images when putting them online.
I LOVE panoramic shots!! Especially in nature settings. Combining with your Northern Lights work is very cool. And I think exploration is part of the nature of the human soul. Thanks for sharing, Bryan! Keep enlightening us!!
I really enjoyed your article this morning. I have also been enjoying your infrared photos on Facebook and when you post your image dumps for the week. One day I hope to be able to make the time to take one of your workshops. Over the years your articles and videos have helped me grow as a photographer and for that I am very grateful. Have a wonderful week.
I concur with the concept. This week I have been walking city streets, exploring them and the light. I just wish I had brought my Ricoh GR iii instead of the Nikon Z7!
Nice article! It definitely resonated with me. The exploring theme is so true as is the keeper-rate. I guess missteps are part of the exploration process. Looking forward to your IR workshop.
Another great introspective article on how to use and enjoy your own photography.
Question for you and I know you’ve discussed this subject before: You said currently you now only end up keeping about 1/3 of your photos. When do you do the culling? Is the final 1/3 final?
Always seems hard for me to do it thinking there is something in the photo I like and will do a little tweaking at some point. The at some point never comes and all my digital storage devices are always overflowing. I do know that when I’m gone my images will also be gone as no one will ever look at them as far as I know.
I'm not sure what percentage is at anymore. I delete a lot of images at import and then if I'm going back through images and notice that I kept a couple alternatives I may also delete those. It's mainly at import though, and I've gotten much more ruthless on deleting images than I used to be.
I need to delete more. I heard someone say that they were trying to get down to 10,000-20,000 images. I thought that was a good goal. That's about 5 to 10% of my current catalog and would result in only the best of the best remaining.
That said, I recent deleted a chunk of images from my online galleries and right before I did, someone ordered one of the ones that was going to be deleted, so maybe I'm not a good judge.
At any rate, everything stored digitally will eventually disappear, so printing ones work seems to be the only way it'll have a chance to survive.
I enjoy your emails. I like to share my photos with essays I write also. A friend in my art league worried that my photos will be stolen by my posting them in a blog. I make limited income so I can't pay for the thing that doesn't let people save stuff from your blog/ Facebook/ etc. I've resized photos to the smallest mp size good for thumbnails and used them that way. How do you protect your work?
There's no real way to protect our work on the Internet because the companies that profit off of the Internet haven't bothered to develop a real way to protect artists and copyright. Heck, they even steal our work to program their so-called "AI" computer programs. Some people are thieves and they are going to steal. I just don't post the full-sized images when putting them online.
I LOVE panoramic shots!! Especially in nature settings. Combining with your Northern Lights work is very cool. And I think exploration is part of the nature of the human soul. Thanks for sharing, Bryan! Keep enlightening us!!
I understand your journey
I really enjoyed your article this morning. I have also been enjoying your infrared photos on Facebook and when you post your image dumps for the week. One day I hope to be able to make the time to take one of your workshops. Over the years your articles and videos have helped me grow as a photographer and for that I am very grateful. Have a wonderful week.
I concur with the concept. This week I have been walking city streets, exploring them and the light. I just wish I had brought my Ricoh GR iii instead of the Nikon Z7!
I enjoy your photos so much and also love reading about your thought process.
Nice article! It definitely resonated with me. The exploring theme is so true as is the keeper-rate. I guess missteps are part of the exploration process. Looking forward to your IR workshop.
Another great introspective article on how to use and enjoy your own photography.
Question for you and I know you’ve discussed this subject before: You said currently you now only end up keeping about 1/3 of your photos. When do you do the culling? Is the final 1/3 final?
Always seems hard for me to do it thinking there is something in the photo I like and will do a little tweaking at some point. The at some point never comes and all my digital storage devices are always overflowing. I do know that when I’m gone my images will also be gone as no one will ever look at them as far as I know.
I'm not sure what percentage is at anymore. I delete a lot of images at import and then if I'm going back through images and notice that I kept a couple alternatives I may also delete those. It's mainly at import though, and I've gotten much more ruthless on deleting images than I used to be.
I need to delete more. I heard someone say that they were trying to get down to 10,000-20,000 images. I thought that was a good goal. That's about 5 to 10% of my current catalog and would result in only the best of the best remaining.
That said, I recent deleted a chunk of images from my online galleries and right before I did, someone ordered one of the ones that was going to be deleted, so maybe I'm not a good judge.
At any rate, everything stored digitally will eventually disappear, so printing ones work seems to be the only way it'll have a chance to survive.