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fivespud364
Joined: 11 Nov 2008
Posts: 107
Location: Bude Cornwall
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 Posted: Sat Nov 07, 09 1:17 pm Post subject: Photos needed for my website |
 
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We have just had a bit of a major hitch re- the photos on our website someone is trying to charge me over £900 for a photo of a basil plant I have used.
I therefore now wish to delete all existing photos from my website but that will make it look pretty dull so if anyone has any photos of their veg that I can use for free can you please e-mail them to me at vegetableplantsdirect@googlemail.com I would be most grateful and if you can name the variety so much the better |
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Silas
Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 6592
Location: Staffordshire
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Have you used copyrighted photos without the permission of the photographer? |
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fivespud364
Joined: 11 Nov 2008
Posts: 107
Location: Bude Cornwall
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| Posted: Sat Nov 07, 09 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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Not Knowingly The picture concerned must have been used by someone else before me |
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Floyd
Joined: 19 Feb 2009
Posts: 4
Location: North West Scottish Highlands
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If you Google Stock photos free, you will find many sites where you have access to free to use Photos.
Hope this helps
Lee |
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Tavascarow
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 2235
Location: South Cornwall
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| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 09 8:37 am Post subject: |
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| Floyd wrote: |
If you Google Stock photos free, you will find many sites where you have access to free to use Photos.
Hope this helps
Lee |
Be careful if you do that.
Many of those free stock photo sites are just glorified image search engines & many of the images they throw up are copywrited.
My Fotothing site (along with many other members there) got hit by one a couple of years ago & virtually all the images on Fotothing are copywrited. |
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earthyvirgo
Joined: 24 Aug 2007
Posts: 1280
Location: in the loft, Gerlan
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Fivespud,
If you want to be safe re copyright there are a couple of image libraries that don't charge the earth. It's simply not worth the stress of using images where you're not sure of the source.
Bigstockphoto ... (com I think) is one, I can't for the life of me remember the other at the moment.
You buy credits for use of the images and they cost $6 upwards for 72dpi resolution images for web use.
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Tavascarow
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 2235
Location: South Cornwall
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Of course the real answer is you should be taking & using your own images anyway.
Digital photography & cameras are cheap.
You don't need an expensive digital SLR to take web quality photos & there is plenty of cheap/free image manipulating software available.
Also by stating on the page that all images are of your own stock/produce will give your customers more confidence in what your selling. |
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Fee
Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 12829
Location: Surrey Heath
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sarahloo
Joined: 01 Jun 2007
Posts: 86
Location: Reading, Berkshire
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You should offer plants/seeds in return for photos!
Not sure if I've got anything you'd like but if I have we could probably strike a deal 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/skycarrots |
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Fee
Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 12829
Location: Surrey Heath
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Yummersetter & Mr Yummersetter do photography for websites, might be worth talking to them about it? |
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yummersetter
Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Posts: 1184
Location: Somerset<>West London
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beat me to it, Fee - I was talking to himself about it just last night
We were saying how much better as a 'brand' it would be if you had unique pictures of your own that were a unified image of your company's products rather than bits and pieces from various sources. You need images of the supplied plants and finished article, I think. And professional photography is a tax-deductible business expense, so is in fact, more affordable that you think. |
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vegplot
Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 9614
Location: North West Wales
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| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 09 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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| yummersetter wrote: |
beat me to it, Fee - I was talking to himself about it just last night
We were saying how much better as a 'brand' it would be if you had unique pictures of your own that were a unified image of your company's products rather than bits and pieces from various sources. You need images of the supplied plants and finished article, I think. And professional photography is a tax-deductible business expense, so is in fact, more affordable that you think. |
This site demonstrates this clearly.
Afon Wen employed a photographer to take pictures for their web site and the result is far better than using library images (IMHO). |
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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 37768
Location: Essex
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| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 09 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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| sarahloo wrote: |
| You should offer plants/seeds in return for photos! |
That sounds like a good deal |
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MarkS
Joined: 01 Aug 2006
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The NUJ recommended rates for use of digital photographs online.
http://www.londonfreelance.org/feesguide/index.php?language=en&country=UK§ion=Photography&subsect=Online+use+of+photos&subsubs=All
Note that this is for pre-agreed use. Typically the charge for unauthorised use would be at least 2x or 3x these rates.
While many photographers would accept a minimal payment for a personal site, very few would allow a commercial site to get away.
If your letter is from Getty Images you are probably in trouble (google getty images copyright)
You should ideally use photos of your own stuff as recommended above (what shop shows pictures of other peoples goods?).
Failing that you need to find images which are cheap from a suitable supplier.
You need to find a microstock agency. istock/alamy/etc. Flickr now have a deal with getty
Expect more people to have this problem because things like http://www.tineye.com/ are making it easy to find people stealing images. |
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vegplot
Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 9614
Location: North West Wales
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If it's a Getty image then they're well known for doing this. As far as I know, and I may well be wrong, Getty have never successfully prosecuted a breach of copyright, relying on fair heavy handed techniques. They will reduce their 'fee' if resistance is met or give up altogether as the cost of taking it to court doesn't normally warrant the effort.
This is not advice just an observation. |
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