Earlier I was perusing facebook and saw that the bride and groom were tagged in a new picture and it didn't take long for it to look suspiciously familiar. It was edited, black and white with select color on the bouquet but I pulled up one of my pictures and sure enough it is MY photo. The kicker... it was posted and the groom thanked someone else for the 'amazing picture'. I am SO mad about this. I cannot believe or understand why someone else would download someone else's picture, edit it, and not give credit to the original photographer. It makes me question if I should start putting copyright logos on all my pictures, I mean for goodness sake!
For anyone who is curious...
This is my photo as posted to facebook
This is the one that was posted by someone else.
Now please tell me that I am crazy and that these are two different pictures. Nope? Cant? Yeah they have to be the same picture, MY picture. The bottom one is cropped ever so slightly, I can only assume in an effort to level it out a bit. The quality is off because it was downloaded from facebook which seriously downgrades sharpness and quality. I wouldn't have been as upset except I was not credited and as petty as that sounds it does violate copyright laws as it is still my intellectual property in spite of of how I choose to display it.
On a side note how amazingly gorgeous is this bride and how cute of a couple are they? This is a good friend and I feel so fortunate to know her because she is just such an amazing and sweet person.
Related but not at the same time when I was converting my images to jpg and adjusting exposures and whatnot I made the comment to Paco that I wished I was as beautiful a bride as so many of my friends are. He paused and said " You are fine.... everyday, you're fine.". Wow. I mean... WHOA everyone take a step back after the romance in that one. This was not a "girl, you are FINE" this was a "yeah, you're fine." He will defend himself I am sure. I remember when we were first together and even the whole first two years of marriage he told me every single day at very random moments that I was beautiful. Sigh. I guess we;'re that old married couple now or there is something to that 7 years married thing.. Or was the the 7 year the itch thing where you cheat.. well.. hopefully not or I m pretty sure we aren't there, but we're evidently pretty boring.
Can you also post on the picture "thanks, I also thought it was good when I took it!"? Maybe that'd just add unneeded drama and it would be better not to, but at least the person would know that somebody noticed! I don't understand why people think they can just "borrow" whatever they want. One of my old coworkers has a blog and she posts pictures with all of her posts. This would be fine, if she took the pictures herself or at least credited the source. Does she? Nope! She googles to find images or takes them from where she gets the recipe and never once credits the source. And she's an English teacher that won't stand for plagiarizing in her class, but she does the exact same thing with images and thinks it's perfectly acceptable!
ReplyDeleteOn another note, that's just how guys are. If I ask Adam how something looks, it's fine or ok. Then he doesn't understand when I change or look for something else, because I don't want a dress that's just "fine" or "ok." And I think you're pretty :-)
oh man, don't worry I stewed over it for a while. I was going to then I was going to send a personal message that pointed it out then I just decided it isn't worth it, I don't want to cause some weird drama with someone I don't even know and opted to complain about it here. I did tell the bride (mostly because I said I can edit any of the pictures however she wants and it will be exponentially better quality) and she apologized that he ripped the picture off. sigh, it will pass. But if he or anyone else does it with the same album I'm raising hell, ha!
ReplyDeleteProbably a wise choice! At least the important people know it belongs to you!
ReplyDeleteI think you should put copyright on your pictures, they're always great and amazing, you're amazing and beautiful. I would be totally p-ed myself it that happened to me!
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