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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ejronin" data-source="post: 627430" data-attributes="member: 43743">"“This is just an illustration of a major problem for photographers, with a lack of consideration for their work,” French photographer Benjamin Genieys tells The Journalist. “I guess this is even more difficult to understand from a big company as Microsoft is. I checked on 500px and I just have anonymous buyers for this picture. I sold 2 licences between December 2014 and March 2015 ($35 and $85).”Wait. It's a huge problem for photographers, that photographers are putting their images in micro stock sites and allowing the image to be anonymously lisence for $35 and $85? Well, when I was about 5 I went to a place like Hogwarts, except it was real - where they taught me the magic of literacy. To be fair, when I was a wee lady I made the mistake of spec work in graphic design. Tough lesson. I also learned about watermarks and low res files instead of trying to be nice and give the client a preview of the actual product. Hundreds if not thousands of articles are written regularly about how to avoid having your creative materials used for little to no money, or stolen. If these people were professional photographers... Seems like they'd kind of know already. Personally - even as an enthusiast, what I feel are my best shots are on an external HDD and copied to another but never online. They could be trash compared to others but it's "my" best work as I see it and if my "good" work prompts someone to ask, I'll let them see, but never download or print.Sent from my SM-S906L using Tapatalk</blockquote>

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