Be carefull when you use Creative Commons

For anyone with any aspirations of making money out of their photographs, either now or in the future, the creative commons license are a really bad idea, and I’d strongly advise against using them.

A couple of years ago, I took some photos of a horse race and uploaded a few of the best ones to Flickr, using the Share-a-like attribution CC license, however I later found one of them, cropped and being used on a site advertising nights out for tourists in Lebanon, without attribution.

The Share-a-like license offers no incentive to persue this however because the most compensation I would get if it went to court is the amount I have lost through improper use of the photograph, in other words, my name underneath the photo, meanwhile the owner of the website has syndicated this article, along with my photo to Lastminute and British Airways amongst others.

So in my opinion the CC licenses, the Attribution ones in particular, are not worth the bandwidth costs they take to download. All my photos on Flickr are now All Rights Reserved.

Pick of the Week 66 from Gigglejuice

This week’s Pick of the Week is from Gigglejuice

Second chance to pick some photos for me. An interesting look through the pool and very tempting to pounce on Sheffield’s first ‘Autumn’ snow shower this year though I held back. My own excitement at the snow falling really coming over there but lovely photos to view none-the-less!

Right, here goes..

Contrast bysjs.sheffield

This one struck me as it’s simply quite different. Contrast is absolutely the right title I believe, with both the colour and the subjects in the photo. The powerful lines and structure of the steelworks as a backdrop for the advertising billboard promoting clothes and looking good. Clever photo, well spotted and taken.

Street in the Sky by www.flickr.com/photos/glam-girl/2040654981/in/pool-sheffield/Glamgirl

Park Hill flats are a bit of a gripe for me as I’ve always pretty much hated them. However they do have an interesting background and story which I’ve been prompted to follow by pictures such as this. I love B&W photos anyway and this really works well this way. You have a sense of really being stood there. Great mood and atmosphere here.

IMGP8123 by 0742

I like unusual photos. Or something with a unique edge. To me this is, which is why I chose it. I like the angle and motion blur. Something I’ve recently tried a similar shot of though with a tram and know personally these are hit or miss. Just really like this. Can’t have been an easy one to frame it this way with the church and buildings. Good one.

Members in Focus: Gigglejuice

Name : Kerry
Flickr photostream: http://flickr.com/photos/gigglejuice

Equipment?
Fuji Finepix S5500, Tripod, Monopod

Pick of the Week No. 65

I’m another newbie to POTW, and blogging in general, and I have to say I really enjoyed looking through all the photos (and yes I am going to use that old favourite of how difficult it was to pick a winner).
The end of September is all about change for me, and the biggest change in my mind is the transition from summer to autumn.
The nights are noticeably cooler and longer, the quality of light has definitely changed, it’s windy, rainy, and when I go out in the evenings it’s almost as though the whole world should smell like wood smoke and toffee, but it’s not quite there yet.
I love this time of year, and because of this I’ve tried to select those images that come closest to capturing this change and the things I love about it.
It’s all very subjective I know, but I hope you’ll see what I mean through my choices, which amazingly enough have quite accidentally all come from the same day!

Pick of the Week No. 64

This week’s Pick of the Week comes from niinke:-

Although I have lived here since 1997, I got to know Sheffield a lot better when I started to photograph it about a year ago. It’s a different world off West Street and outside the city centre and I still love finding nooks and crannies or seeing them in the photos of others.