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FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA 2013!

Vaydehi 03.05.13, 11:08
How long is the show going to be up? We hope to be in Italy this summer.
http://johndoddato.blogspot.com/
John Doddato 18.05.13, 03:36
John Doddato 18.05.13, 03:36
How long is the show going to be up? We hope to be in Italy this summer.
http://johndoddato.blogspot.com/
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Monthly Theme- May 2013 – What I like to Shoot

Ken Piros 01.05.13, 01:53
I like to photograph friends - even the testy ones - local stuff, and then put things together creatively:
jiobrien 16.05.13, 02:32
jiobrien 16.05.13, 02:32
I like to photograph friends - even the testy ones - local stuff, and then put things together creatively:
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Searching erotic photos to buy

JuliaEm 12.05.13, 10:50
Hello, I am looking for classy erotic photos to buy. The photos should correspond to the topics "elegant sexy women", "lingerie", "sensual massage", "erotic massage" and "nuru massage". Please contact me if you have an offer for me. I'm looking forward to hearing from you. Julia
JuliaEm 12.05.13, 10:50
JuliaEm 12.05.13, 10:50
Hello, I am looking for classy erotic photos to buy. The photos should correspond to the topics "elegant sexy women", "lingerie", "sensual massage", "erotic massage" and "nuru massage". Please contact me if you have an offer for me. I'm looking forward to hearing from you. Julia
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Searching Photographers in Great Britain/ Wales

Flora Engel UK 02.05.13, 10:05
Photography (derived from the Greek photos- for "light" and -graphos for "drawing") is the art, science, and practice of creating durable images by recording light

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Harvey Tom
http://www.lifeinsuranceadvisor.co.uk/over-50s-cover/
Harvey Tom 11.05.13, 08:05
Harvey Tom 11.05.13, 08:05
Photography (derived from the Greek photos- for "light" and -graphos for "drawing") is the art, science, and practice of creating durable images by recording light

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Harvey Tom
http://www.lifeinsuranceadvisor.co.uk/over-50s-cover/
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Photoshop alternative which i landed and working best

Pip dunstan 17.03.13, 07:28
Interesting read on the direction photoshop is taking;

http://the.me/killing-the-golden-goose- ... loud-trap/

Alternatives;

http://the.me/image-editing-without-pho ... ernatives/
Ken Piros 07.05.13, 15:18
Ken Piros 07.05.13, 15:18
Interesting read on the direction photoshop is taking;

http://the.me/killing-the-golden-goose- ... loud-trap/

Alternatives;

http://the.me/image-editing-without-pho ... ernatives/
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the rights of your images faces new laws

Glenn Capers 01.05.13, 22:58
UK.Gov passes Instagram Act: All your pics belong to everyone now

Everyone = Silicon Valley ad platforms tech companies
By Andrew Orlowski • Get more from this author

Posted in Media, 29th April 2013 07:27 GMT
Have you ever uploaded a photo to Facebook, Instagram or Flickr?

If so, you'll probably want to read this, because the rules on who can exploit your work have now changed radically, overnight.

Amateur and professional illustrators and photographers alike will find themselves ensnared by the changes, the result of lobbying by Silicon Valley and radical bureaucrats and academics. The changes are enacted in the sprawling Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act which received Royal Assent last week, and it marks a huge shift in power away from citizens and towards large US corporations.

How so? Previously, and in most of the world today, ownership of your creation is automatic, and legally considered to be an individual's property. That's enshrined in the Berne Convention and other international treaties, where it's considered to be a basic human right. What this means in practice is that you can go after somebody who exploits it without your permission - even if pursuing them is cumbersome and expensive.

The UK coalition government's new law reverses this human right. When last year Instagram attempted to do something similar, it met a furious backlash. But the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act has sailed through without most amateurs or semi-professionals even realising the consequences.

The Act contains changes to UK copyright law which permit the commercial exploitation of images where information identifying the owner is missing, so-called "orphan works", by placing the work into what's known as "extended collective licensing" schemes. Since most digital images on the internet today are orphans - the metadata is missing or has been stripped by a large organisation - millions of photographs and illustrations are swept into such schemes.

For the first time anywhere in the world, the Act will permit the widespread commercial exploitation of unidentified work - the user only needs to perform a "diligent search". But since this is likely to come up with a blank, they can proceed with impunity. The Act states that a user of a work can act as if they are the owner of the work (which should be you) if they're given permission to do so by the Secretary of State.

The Act also fails to prohibit sub-licensing, meaning that once somebody has your work, they can wholesale it. This gives the green light to a new content-scraping industry, an industry that doesn't have to pay the originator a penny. Such is the consequence of "rebalancing copyright", in reality.

What now?
Quite what happens next is not clear, because the Act is merely enabling legislation - the nitty gritty will come in the form of statutory instruments, to be tabled later in the year. Parliament has not voted down a statutory instrument since 1979, so the political process is probably now a formality.

In practice, you'll have two stark choices to prevent being ripped off: remove your work from the internet entirely, or opt-out by registering it. And registration will be on a work-by-work basis.

"People can now use stuff without your permission," explained photo rights campaigner Paul Ellis. "To stop that you have to register your work in a registry - but registering stuff is an activity that costs you time and money. So what was your property by default will only remain yours if you take active steps, and absorb the costs, if it is formally registered to you as the owner."

And right now, Ellis says, there's only one registry, PLUS. Photographers, including David Bailey, condemned the government for rushing through the legislation before other registries - such as the Copyright Hub - could sort themselves out.

"The mass of the public will never realise they've been robbed," thinks Ellis. The radical free-our-information bureaucrats at the Intellectual Property Office had already attempted to smuggle orphan works rules through via the Digital Economy Act in 2010, but were rebuffed. Thanks to a Google-friendly Conservative-led administration, they've now triumphed.

Three other consequences appear possible.

One is a barrage of litigation from UK creators - and overseas owners who find their work Hoovered into extended collective licensing programs. International treaties allow a country to be ostracised and punished. The threat has already been made clear from US writers and photographers, who've promised "a firestorm". Reciprocal royalty arrangements can also be suspended, on the basis of "if you steal our stuff, UK, we won't pay you". In addition, a judicial review, based on the premise that the Act gives Minister unconstitutional power over the disposal of private property, is not out of the question.

Secondly, the disappearance of useful material from the internet is likely to accelerate - the exact opposite of what supporters wish for. We recently highlighted the case of an aerial photographer who's moving work outside the UK, and we've heard of several who are taking their photos away from the web, and into lockers. The internet is poorer without a diverse creative economy - because creators need legal certainty of property rights.

And finally, there's the macroeconomic consequences for the UK economy.

The notorious 'Google Review' chaired by Ian Hargreaves failed to undertake adequate impact assessments, a giveaway that even the most rabid "copyright reformers" recognise there isn't an economic case to be made for taking everyone's stuff and giving it away.

"There's value in works, and if anybody can exploit them except the person who creates them, then value is transferred to the exploiter," explains Ellis. "This is a massive value transfer out of the UK economy to US tech companies."

Where it will remain, he thinks, because UK tech/media companies - should they appear - almost invariably become US-owned.

Copyright "reformers" of course rarely like to talk about such unpleasant matters - and will steer the conversation away from economic consequences as rapidly as possible. Indeed, the they generally talk using Orwellian euphemisms - like "liberalising" or "rebalancing" copyright. It's rarely presented as an individual's ability to go to market being removed. This is what "copyright reform" looks like in practice.

"It's corporate capitalism," says Ellis. "Ideally you want to empower individuals to trade, and keep the proceeds of their trade. The UK has just lost that."

So while the Twitterati and intelligentsia were ranting away about "Big Content", we've just lost the ability to sell our own content. In other words, you've just been royally fucked. ®

READ MORE Facebook Flickr Copyright Uk.Gov Instagram

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO IS NOW READ THE BELOW FOR SOME ANSWERS AND WATCH THE YOUTUBE VIDEO AT TE BOTTOM.
If you want to register your work start by putting in all your information into your files from your camera menu. This includes your full name, address, phone number then in adobe bridge add image title with image file number, make sure your date is on. The more you set up in your camera menu the less you have to do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlLS7cUiFeQ
Glenn Capers 01.05.13, 22:58
Glenn Capers 01.05.13, 22:58
UK.Gov passes Instagram Act: All your pics belong to everyone now

Everyone = Silicon Valley ad platforms tech companies
By Andrew Orlowski • Get more from this author

Posted in Media, 29th April 2013 07:27 GMT
Have you ever uploaded a photo to Facebook, Instagram or Flickr?

If so, you'll probably want to read this, because the rules on who can exploit your work have now changed radically, overnight.

Amateur and professional illustrators and photographers alike will find themselves ensnared by the changes, the result of lobbying by Silicon Valley and radical bureaucrats and academics. The changes are enacted in the sprawling Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act which received Royal Assent last week, and it marks a huge shift in power away from citizens and towards large US corporations.

How so? Previously, and in most of the world today, ownership of your creation is automatic, and legally considered to be an individual's property. That's enshrined in the Berne Convention and other international treaties, where it's considered to be a basic human right. What this means in practice is that you can go after somebody who exploits it without your permission - even if pursuing them is cumbersome and expensive.

The UK coalition government's new law reverses this human right. When last year Instagram attempted to do something similar, it met a furious backlash. But the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act has sailed through without most amateurs or semi-professionals even realising the consequences.

The Act contains changes to UK copyright law which permit the commercial exploitation of images where information identifying the owner is missing, so-called "orphan works", by placing the work into what's known as "extended collective licensing" schemes. Since most digital images on the internet today are orphans - the metadata is missing or has been stripped by a large organisation - millions of photographs and illustrations are swept into such schemes.

For the first time anywhere in the world, the Act will permit the widespread commercial exploitation of unidentified work - the user only needs to perform a "diligent search". But since this is likely to come up with a blank, they can proceed with impunity. The Act states that a user of a work can act as if they are the owner of the work (which should be you) if they're given permission to do so by the Secretary of State.

The Act also fails to prohibit sub-licensing, meaning that once somebody has your work, they can wholesale it. This gives the green light to a new content-scraping industry, an industry that doesn't have to pay the originator a penny. Such is the consequence of "rebalancing copyright", in reality.

What now?
Quite what happens next is not clear, because the Act is merely enabling legislation - the nitty gritty will come in the form of statutory instruments, to be tabled later in the year. Parliament has not voted down a statutory instrument since 1979, so the political process is probably now a formality.

In practice, you'll have two stark choices to prevent being ripped off: remove your work from the internet entirely, or opt-out by registering it. And registration will be on a work-by-work basis.

"People can now use stuff without your permission," explained photo rights campaigner Paul Ellis. "To stop that you have to register your work in a registry - but registering stuff is an activity that costs you time and money. So what was your property by default will only remain yours if you take active steps, and absorb the costs, if it is formally registered to you as the owner."

And right now, Ellis says, there's only one registry, PLUS. Photographers, including David Bailey, condemned the government for rushing through the legislation before other registries - such as the Copyright Hub - could sort themselves out.

"The mass of the public will never realise they've been robbed," thinks Ellis. The radical free-our-information bureaucrats at the Intellectual Property Office had already attempted to smuggle orphan works rules through via the Digital Economy Act in 2010, but were rebuffed. Thanks to a Google-friendly Conservative-led administration, they've now triumphed.

Three other consequences appear possible.

One is a barrage of litigation from UK creators - and overseas owners who find their work Hoovered into extended collective licensing programs. International treaties allow a country to be ostracised and punished. The threat has already been made clear from US writers and photographers, who've promised "a firestorm". Reciprocal royalty arrangements can also be suspended, on the basis of "if you steal our stuff, UK, we won't pay you". In addition, a judicial review, based on the premise that the Act gives Minister unconstitutional power over the disposal of private property, is not out of the question.

Secondly, the disappearance of useful material from the internet is likely to accelerate - the exact opposite of what supporters wish for. We recently highlighted the case of an aerial photographer who's moving work outside the UK, and we've heard of several who are taking their photos away from the web, and into lockers. The internet is poorer without a diverse creative economy - because creators need legal certainty of property rights.

And finally, there's the macroeconomic consequences for the UK economy.

The notorious 'Google Review' chaired by Ian Hargreaves failed to undertake adequate impact assessments, a giveaway that even the most rabid "copyright reformers" recognise there isn't an economic case to be made for taking everyone's stuff and giving it away.

"There's value in works, and if anybody can exploit them except the person who creates them, then value is transferred to the exploiter," explains Ellis. "This is a massive value transfer out of the UK economy to US tech companies."

Where it will remain, he thinks, because UK tech/media companies - should they appear - almost invariably become US-owned.

Copyright "reformers" of course rarely like to talk about such unpleasant matters - and will steer the conversation away from economic consequences as rapidly as possible. Indeed, the they generally talk using Orwellian euphemisms - like "liberalising" or "rebalancing" copyright. It's rarely presented as an individual's ability to go to market being removed. This is what "copyright reform" looks like in practice.

"It's corporate capitalism," says Ellis. "Ideally you want to empower individuals to trade, and keep the proceeds of their trade. The UK has just lost that."

So while the Twitterati and intelligentsia were ranting away about "Big Content", we've just lost the ability to sell our own content. In other words, you've just been royally fucked. ®

READ MORE Facebook Flickr Copyright Uk.Gov Instagram

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO IS NOW READ THE BELOW FOR SOME ANSWERS AND WATCH THE YOUTUBE VIDEO AT TE BOTTOM.
If you want to register your work start by putting in all your information into your files from your camera menu. This includes your full name, address, phone number then in adobe bridge add image title with image file number, make sure your date is on. The more you set up in your camera menu the less you have to do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlLS7cUiFeQ
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Monthly Theme- April 2013 – It’s all there in Black and Whi

Ken Piros 01.04.13, 12:31
bonsaipete 29.04.13, 22:49
bonsaipete 29.04.13, 22:49
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Looking for nice places in North Wales

Jilloween 24.04.13, 11:26
Hey there,

I'm doing an internship in North Wales at the moment (I'm from Germany and I'm going to stay until the 25th of May) and I already found a couple of nice places to take pictures, e.g. Swallow Falls



But I'm looking for more nice places. I thought you could probably share some places with me?

Thanks in advance.

Jill
Jilloween 24.04.13, 11:26
Jilloween 24.04.13, 11:26
Hey there,

I'm doing an internship in North Wales at the moment (I'm from Germany and I'm going to stay until the 25th of May) and I already found a couple of nice places to take pictures, e.g. Swallow Falls



But I'm looking for more nice places. I thought you could probably share some places with me?

Thanks in advance.

Jill
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out of discussion

Yasemin C. 27.03.13, 07:45
:)

i am not asking it, why i cannot re-activate the photos that had been de-activated before cos of exceeding minimum?
Yasemin C. 14.04.13, 19:39
Yasemin C. 14.04.13, 19:39
:)

i am not asking it, why i cannot re-activate the photos that had been de-activated before cos of exceeding minimum?
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Casting.

Kenn212 11.04.13, 17:19
Simply use this link : http://www.fotocommunity.com/models
Ruud van der Lubben 11.04.13, 19:39
Ruud van der Lubben 11.04.13, 19:39
Simply use this link : http://www.fotocommunity.com/models
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Have you caught a bird lately?

Babak J 02.04.13, 04:13
Bird season is nearly upon us, first Goldfinches appeared yesterday :-)
BRYAN CRUTE 10.04.13, 17:00
BRYAN CRUTE 10.04.13, 17:00
Bird season is nearly upon us, first Goldfinches appeared yesterday :-)
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Transfer Photos and Videos Wirelessly

elaine2 07.04.13, 08:07
The iPhone WiFi Transfer is also called Wireless Transfer App on the App Store. Wirelessness means there is no need to use any USB cable.

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Dylan Jason

seo services
Dylan Jason 09.04.13, 19:55
Dylan Jason 09.04.13, 19:55
The iPhone WiFi Transfer is also called Wireless Transfer App on the App Store. Wirelessness means there is no need to use any USB cable.

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Dylan Jason

seo services
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Big dysfunction of FC

JCC-J 04.04.13, 09:39
Washington has taken political dysfunction to a new level and seems to relish migrating from one self-centered crisis to another.

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Dylan Jason

seo services
Dylan Jason 09.04.13, 19:55
Dylan Jason 09.04.13, 19:55
Washington has taken political dysfunction to a new level and seems to relish migrating from one self-centered crisis to another.

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Dylan Jason

seo services
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turn your photos into paintings

Leonid Khodyrev 16.11.12, 17:46
Have you ever wanted to create oil paintings at the click of a button? Now is your chance - easy, fun and free if you own Photoshop CS5.

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Dylan Jason

seo services
Dylan Jason 09.04.13, 19:54
Dylan Jason 09.04.13, 19:54
Have you ever wanted to create oil paintings at the click of a button? Now is your chance - easy, fun and free if you own Photoshop CS5.

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Dylan Jason

seo services
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Where to go to in Italy?

Richard Allen 19.12.12, 18:28
Best places to go in Italy. Best cities, best hill towns, best seaside resort villages, and best sights in Italy. Find out the best things to see and do in Italy.

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Dylan Jason

seo services
Dylan Jason 09.04.13, 19:53
Dylan Jason 09.04.13, 19:53
Best places to go in Italy. Best cities, best hill towns, best seaside resort villages, and best sights in Italy. Find out the best things to see and do in Italy.

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Dylan Jason

seo services
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