017: Someone STOLE my photos!
One of the worst feelings in life it to be taken advantage of. When you work hard every day to perfect your craft its easy to become proud of the work you have accomplished. Being able to look back at old photographs and have a visual representation of how far you have come on your journey is fantastic. So when a photographer comes along and take your work without asking and then claims it as their own it is easy to become angry. Thats what happened this week when a Callum found out a photographer had stolen his work, watermarked it as their own, and claimed it to appear as though he had a larger portfolio. We talk all about how he found out, and what he is going to do about it!
In this episode you will learn:
We talk about where you can download our "5 Tips to taking better photos today"
What peoples number one complaint about learning photography is
I talk more about my new Fuji X-Pro2 and initial experiences with it
Callum talks about why he still doesn't have a x100t even thought he promised you all he would by now
Callum finds found out that photos were stolen off of his website
He talks about how he found out
He talks about how he confronted the other photographer
We talk about why it is so wrong to steal other photographers work
Why stealing photographs hurts you more than the photographer who's work was stolen
Why Callum is asking the other photographer to license his photos
Why we think the photographer stole one of Callum's Engagement Photos
Why stealing photos to build your own photography portfolio will never help you
What you as a photographer can do to build your portfolio instead of stealing work
How you can use other photographers work as inspiration instead of envy
Why replicating an aspect of another photographers style is great
Why you cant completely becomes another photographer by replicating them
How this relates to photography workshops
Photography workshops are popular because people want to emulate the work of that photographer
Yet you can have every photographer in the same place, shooting the same subject, at the same time, and you will have a ton of photos that look completely different
What the two reason are that people steal photos
Why they not only work, but will hurt your career