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Flying with a Tripod

John Doddato 12.06.13, 01:20

I think nowadays it is only possible to take a tripod if this is packed in your checked luggage.
On board carriage in generally is not allowed anymore due to security measures.

Ruud van der Lubben 16.06.13, 11:14

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Monthly Theme- June 2013 – Point of View

Ken Piros 01.06.13, 12:22

two motorcycles .... a view of their exhaust pipes and tail lights

Adele Oliver 16.06.13, 04:11

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out of discussion

Yasemin C. 27.03.13, 07:45

"It seems, however, out of discussion that the nation of origin may have been England". Out of discussion means to me "sans l'ombre d'un ...Viele übersetzte Beispielsätze mit "out of discussion" – Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch und Suchmaschine für Millionen von Deutsch-Übersetzungen.

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Casting.

Kenn212 11.04.13, 17:19

Casting is a manufacturing process by which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then ...Owen Wilson is joining Jim Carrey in Relativity's as-yet-untitled action heist comedy from Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess

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Have you caught a bird lately?

Babak J 02.04.13, 04:13

"BAG BIRDs" are plastic bags, typically those used by merchants to hold items. ... They may become loose and get caught in trees, underbrush, storm drains, and ou ever spotted a Whooping Crane over, or in, a unit of the National Park System? ... You can catch the program daily at 4:30 p.m. on the North Rim at the ...

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FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA 2013!

Vaydehi 03.05.13, 11:08

As part of Fotografia Europea 2013 the Municipality of Reggio Emilia and aBcM are organising HOST, with the VII Photo Agency. Fotografia Europea 2013 meets VII Photo. The Municipality of Reggio Emilia, in partnership with aBcM, presents the HOST project, and invites

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Please help to fullfil a survey about photo communities!

Matthias Moritz 24.05.13, 14:56

Dear members of fotocommunity,
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Matthias Moritz 05.06.13, 09:06

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Wedding in the Rain

FlashSpark 02.06.13, 04:31

It has been raining non-stop for weeks and there is no sign of it stopping any time soon.
I have booked a very last second wedding for tomorrow and this will be the first wedding I expect to shoot in full rain, all day. And believe me, they want to be outside for it. I have scouted as many alternative indoor locations as I could and googled tips for full outdoor weddings until I felt that I had thoroughly prepared myself for nearly 5 hours of outdoor shots.

So I will be wrapping my cameras in rain sleeves, wearing my favourite rain jacket and I just hope that nature will bless us with photogenic mist, fog and moody clouds (and hey--maybe no rain while we're at it!)

I will let you folks know how it goes! In the mean time if you have any last second tips I would love to hear them!

FlashSpark 02.06.13, 04:31

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Monthly Theme- May 2013 – What I like to Shoot

Ken Piros 01.05.13, 01:53

This is from my local community (like 'death of a skater,' above:

jiobrien 31.05.13, 03:05

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Everyone gets a free terabyte!

Leonid Khodyrev 22.05.13, 10:17

Holy mother of god! Thanks I just signed up!!

Babak J 25.05.13, 15:37

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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

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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 11.05.13, 08:05

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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

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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. ®

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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

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Monthly Theme- April 2013 – It’s all there in Black and Whi

Ken Piros 01.04.13, 12:31

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