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<blockquote data-quote="crycocyon" data-source="post: 295971" data-attributes="member: 13076">Well, consider that images here can show up in a Google search within just a couple of hours of posting and other people linking to it. If my images are going to end up in cyberspace, then I want people to know who took them, mainly because I'm developing this as a profession. You would be surprised at how easily images can end up in obscure advertising, Ebay, etc. for people too lazy to pay a stock agency for an image and just lift one from the web without any copyright mark on it. It is for protection, because proving you took the image is the other thing if you want to approach someone to take the image down from their site. How do you prove it? By telling them that you have the original WITHOUT the watermark. Even for a hobbyist, if your work is VERY good, then I would recommend a subtle, small, partially transparent watermark identifying you as the photographer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="crycocyon, post: 295971, member: 13076"] Well, consider that images here can show up in a Google search within just a couple of [I]hours[/I] of posting and other people linking to it. If my images are going to end up in cyberspace, then I want people to know who took them, mainly because I'm developing this as a profession. You would be surprised at how easily images can end up in obscure advertising, Ebay, etc. for people too lazy to pay a stock agency for an image and just lift one from the web without any copyright mark on it. It is for protection, because proving you took the image is the other thing if you want to approach someone to take the image down from their site. How do you prove it? By telling them that you have the original WITHOUT the watermark. Even for a hobbyist, if your work is VERY good, then I would recommend a subtle, small, partially transparent watermark identifying you as the photographer. [/QUOTE]

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