Best way to host/watermark photos - Took a bunch of pics down in Joplin

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TechBoyJK

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I took a lot of photos down in Joplin, and I'd like to watermark them as best as possible, then put them online.

What's a good site for hosting photos? I usually use photobucket but I want something better for presentation. Something that blocks 'right clicking to save' (i know there are ways around it, but still). That and I want something that doesn't ruin the photos by compressing them.

I posted a few on facebook and it just trashes the photos.

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Texashiker

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For watermarking, take a look at Watermark Factory. They have a tool that can bulk process images

http://www.videowatermarkfactory.com/products.htm

There is the video watermark factory, and the watermark factory.

You point the program to a folder, and all of the images in that folder are watermarked.

As for hosting and no right click, I dont know of anyone.
 

ProfJohn

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I wouldn't worry too much about right click at this point.

The event is old news now and there have been so many photos taken of the place that yours aren't going to be any different than what the news organizations already have taken.

btw I think Flickr prevents unwanted downloads, but not 100% sure.
 

Saint Nick

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Just take a picture of your cock, place it over the images, and change the transparency of the layer to about 35%.

Boom.
 

Paladin3

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When I was sharing lots of photos online I would use photoblink.com. I haven't been there in a long time, but it was a fun site for general photography, maybe not so much documentary photography.

The only real way to prevent people from stealing your photos is to not post them, since a screen grab gets around anything but an annoying logo over the top of the image. You might want to post only low resolution images, but people will steal those too if they want the image badly enough, and then you don't get the satisfaction of exhibiting the photos in high res.

Photoshop does watermarking, IIRC, but I've never felt a need to watermark my work. In fact, cross you fingers that someone does use them without permission and then just bill them a usage fee, hehe.

Frankly, I don't see you getting paid for any of those shots without people in them, and this late after the event. To sell images from a disaster you must include people in your photos. Human drama sells much better than shots of random wreckage. You also have to get them to market about 60 seconds after the event.

When shooting news it's every shooters dream to capture the event as it is happening with all elements of the event in the photo, i.e., people running from the tornado with the twister and a path of destruction in the background. If you can't get than then you shoot people involved in the immediate aftermath and rescue efforts, again, with as many elements of the story in the image as possible and concentrating on the human drama.

Images that tell the story of disaster and human suffering (sadly) sell best. Try to avoid generic shots that don't tell the complete story or could be from any event. Bent wreckage or a demolished house is about the last to sell, but if a tornado victim is rummaging through the shambles of their destroyed home then the images marketability goes way up.

Kinda cold and mercenary, isn't it?
 

TechBoyJK

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When I was sharing lots of photos online I would use photoblink.com. I haven't been there in a long time, but it was a fun site for general photography, maybe not so much documentary photography.

The only real way to prevent people from stealing your photos is to not post them, since a screen grab gets around anything but an annoying logo over the top of the image. You might want to post only low resolution images, but people will steal those too if they want the image badly enough, and then you don't get the satisfaction of exhibiting the photos in high res.

Photoshop does watermarking, IIRC, but I've never felt a need to watermark my work. In fact, cross you fingers that someone does use them without permission and then just bill them a usage fee, hehe.

Frankly, I don't see you getting paid for any of those shots without people in them, and this late after the event. To sell images from a disaster you must include people in your photos. Human drama sells much better than shots of random wreckage. You also have to get them to market about 60 seconds after the event.

When shooting news it's every shooters dream to capture the event as it is happening with all elements of the event in the photo, i.e., people running from the tornado with the twister and a path of destruction in the background. If you can't get than then you shoot people involved in the immediate aftermath and rescue efforts, again, with as many elements of the story in the image as possible and concentrating on the human drama.

Images that tell the story of disaster and human suffering (sadly) sell best. Try to avoid generic shots that don't tell the complete story or could be from any event. Bent wreckage or a demolished house is about the last to sell, but if a tornado victim is rummaging through the shambles of their destroyed home then the images marketability goes way up.

Kinda cold and mercenary, isn't it?

Well, to be honest, I didn't want to sell them.

I'm going to use the pics for artistic destruction imagery.

Not just with these, but with anything in the future, I'm curious about the best way to present the work, watermark, etc.

I'm not 'that' worried about it, but I wanted to at least investigate what was out there.
 

Tweak155

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I use GIMP and make my own watermark. I save the watermark to a file then insert it and scale as needed.

Of course this isn't practical for thousands of images, but for the 30-50 I've had to watermark thus far its just fine.
 

edro

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I wouldn't worry about anyone stealing your photos.
In the rare case that someone does and makes money off or it, you can sue and get paid.

It's annoying having to stamp out the watermark from images I use as my wallpaper.

Save people the hassle. Post them on an opensource image website.
 
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