1up – Randy + Lauren
Today’s wednesday 1up is from a recent hot e’session I shot with motoGP rider, Randy de Puniet and his fiancé, Lauren Vickers.
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Please use your own photos…
Today I came across a photographer over in the USA, who was passing off my work as his own. Not just with a few photos, but renaming my couples, using their photos in detailed blog posts and writing his own thoughts on the day, as if they were his weddings.
The internet is big, but the photographer community is close-knit and very defensive of their own. I was alerted to this by a fellow wedding photographer.
Photographers:
If you intend to steal other photographers work, removing watermarks, re-editing photos that you have not taken etc, beware you will be found out. Maybe not immediately, but you will be eventually. Copyright infringement is a very real, serious offence and the law backs the creator of the original work.
Brides:
Please please, make sure you meet your photographer and see a variety of real, printed work. Its very hard to replicate web-quality images in print and show a whole wedding from it. Even review sites can have false reviews on it from the photographer posing as ex-brides. Do your research, ask for vendor / friend referrals.