Paul OToole Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 Is there a link or way to share my portfolio on my facebook and twitter. Thanks for any input. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin P Wilson Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 I would suggest you read their terms of use before you do. Especially the rights to use and distribute your images. I would be, am, very circumspect about posting images to any social media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpics Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 If you click on the blue number under your forum avatar, it takes you to all of your images which you can then turn into a link. I have used this link on my website to take potential buyers directly to Alamy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 If you link your images on Alamy to social media you risk your images being stolen by 1000%. It is bad enough as it is. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManWay Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 Don't even think of doing it! Under any circumstances. Why don't you share a link to your website instead? Like this: www.richardwayman.com Otherwise your images are liable to be stolen. Best Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MircoV Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 Thats true. I dont think indeed that the buyers are on Facebook. Alamy is looking and avdertising to get buyers and they will find eventually your images if they need. Even if a buyer would find your link on Facebook they will for sure not stay only in your portfolio and use instead the full database of Alamy. This is the advantage of a stock agency. to have many images to search for. At the end you are actually adverizing for Alamy instead of for you (What is of course also good). Mirco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 I use Facebook and Twitter extensively to promote my own work, as do Alamy themselves for the whole agency... Used sensibly they are important elements in marketing km www.facebook.com/FfotoKeithMorris @KeithMorrisAber Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Edwards Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 I'm 1000000% with Kieth here... Social media is a very important marketing resource, ignore it at your peril but also be very careful how you use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callie Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Agreed with Keith also, as much as I dislike social media I have to admit it is a very useful tool which I have seen advantage from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyn Llun Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 I dislike social media, my galleries and agents do all the marketing of my work, but love Facebook at the moment. I was e mailed by someone a few months ago who said "have seen some of your photographs on Facebook and wondered if I can have some others", (he meant for free). As I don't have a Facebook account someone must have nicked them off my website. I tracked them down with the unsuspecting help of the guy who mailed me and my legal team (backed by my galleries and agents) went to work. I am now a generous four figure sum better off (due to the potential value of the images they took - not general picture library stock stuff). The person who stole my work is going to have a rotten Christmas as they have to pay that plus substantial legal fees. If only more photographers would come down hard it would help stamp it out in time. Too many say "not worth the bother" etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Edwards Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 I dislike social media, my galleries and agents do all the marketing of my work, but love Facebook at the moment. I was e mailed by someone a few months ago who said "have seen some of your photographs on Facebook and wondered if I can have some others", (he meant for free). As I don't have a Facebook account someone must have nicked them off my website. I tracked them down with the unsuspecting help of the guy who mailed me and my legal team (backed by my galleries and agents) went to work. I am now a generous four figure sum better off (due to the potential value of the images they took - not general picture library stock stuff). The person who stole my work is going to have a rotten Christmas as they have to pay that plus substantial legal fees. If only more photographers would come down hard it would help stamp it out in time. Too many say "not worth the bother" etc. But without social media that's 4 figures you would not have.... Income from social media does not have to be "conventional " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyn Llun Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Very true I suppose but I do feel for those many photographers who don't have the excellent - and expert in this field, legal back up that I do and who have to sit and watch their work get stolen. Also of course 99% of it never gets noticed by the photographers themselves while my galleries, agents etc. are constantly monitoring for infringements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Just to add another note.. a few weeks back i was commissioned to photograph the first play to be performed in a new arts centre in north wales. The dress-run was delayed in starting for an hour or two so i spent my time pottering around the building, admiring the architecture, and making some images of the interiors and exteriors... I put these up on FB and Twitter later that day, 850px wide, heavily watermarked.. Today i have just licenced 3 of those images to the Londond based architects of the scheme for very good fees; all because they'd been sent a link to the pictures by the team running the centre.. Ignore the potential of social media at your peril. Make it work for you km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Very true I suppose but I do feel for those many photographers who don't have the excellent - and expert in this field, legal back up that I do and who have to sit and watch their work get stolen. Also of course 99% of it never gets noticed by the photographers themselves while my galleries, agents etc. are constantly monitoring for infringements. So how is that different from checking on Image Search and using the IPEC small claims track? If they're doing something special would you care to share? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
York Photographer Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Sharing a link to your collection on social media or a website, doesn't give away the rights, if you upload individual images on to social media, then your asking for people to nick them. Sharing links to your collection helps google index them, which seems to lead to small personal use/powerpoint type sales Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 "if you upload individual images on to social media, then your asking for people to nick them." or buy them.... km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inchiquin Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 "if you upload individual images on to social media, then your asking for people to nick them." or buy them.... Quite. I post loads of photos on Facebook. Every single one has a prominent copyright watermark. I occasionally get enquiries - usually from people who want something for free but one day someone with a wallet will come along. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisC Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 I dislike social media, my galleries and agents do all the marketing of my work, but love Facebook at the moment. I was e mailed by someone a few months ago who said "have seen some of your photographs on Facebook and wondered if I can have some others", (he meant for free). As I don't have a Facebook account someone must have nicked them off my website. I tracked them down with the unsuspecting help of the guy who mailed me and my legal team (backed by my galleries and agents) went to work. I am now a generous four figure sum better off (due to the potential value of the images they took - not general picture library stock stuff). The person who stole my work is going to have a rotten Christmas as they have to pay that plus substantial legal fees. If only more photographers would come down hard it would help stamp it out in time. Too many say "not worth the bother" etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisC Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Dyn that is great news, but One of the problems with social media and life in general these days is that, people expect everything for free and have no idea of copyright, plus of course Facebook, Twitter etc promote the idea of sharing and of course any metadata is stripped out during the upload. Also e-mails with images and digital images in general, once passed onto anyone even Alamy can easily be passed around and used. Therefore without a legal team that you have, how does one stop these infringements, or does anyone know of a company who can do this on the photographers behalf? I've had friends and clients of portrait sessions edit the size in order to put in social media, the local newspaper which is part of trinity group, takes stuff of people's Facebook accounts without asking, or Twitter etc and ive just noticed, whilst trying to find if one of my Alamy zoomed has been bought by anybody, I discovered one of my images on their website, with the copyright cut off, this was used three years ago! This image is not on any site at all now, but I did put a few on social media at the time, so they must have stolen it then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 You don't need a 'legal team' or 'agents and galleries'. Google image search will find many infringements and you can pursue them yourself if necessary through the small claims track of IPEC. Those newspaper uses are infringements- you give Facebook a licence when you upload content but not anyone else. If you can prove the 3-year use, they should be paying up. Try this. http://www.epuk.org/Opinion/994/stolen-photographs-what-to-do?pg=4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armstrong Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 I think this another example of photographers needing to revise their old model and accept that technology changes things. The media buyers now or soon will be the social media generation. They are experts at it and photographers need to be where the buyers are. Before social media really took off the same argument was had about online in general. 'Don't put your photos online they will be stolen' I've had my share of infringements however the upside of sharing online has been far, far greater than the downside. You just need to be sensible about watermarking and be diligent about how and where you share. As soon as you get a client use an image digitally it's effectively out in the wild anyway. It's easy enough to find Alamy images un-watermarked at 5000 px length. An analogy is a shopkeeper not opening his shop because he's worried about shoplifting. It's an unfortunate consequence of being in business. You just have to make as many sales as possible to mitigate any losses. Trey Ratcliffe seems to have done okay out of social media and a creative commons model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 "photographers need to be where the buyers are." absolutely And depending on the sort of imagery you're making, social media in all its variety, is increasingly not only where your buyers are, but where your buyers will then be using your work. (fine art, limited edition, wet process, prints being one of the few exeptions......probably) km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nacke Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 I'm with Dyn, I do not post anything on "Social Media" and do not see it as being of any positive use to me. I've tracked down and collected on several unlicensed uses, to my surprise by major corporations and institutions, and collected substantial fees. All the negotiation and collection was done by me. For the smaller thefts I just send a standard take down notice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MircoV Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Maybe i just dont have enought knowledge yet but in my thinking social media has only sense as far as goes promoting own work from own website. For your portfolio on agencies it is a different case. People that are visiting agencies dont want to choose only photos from your portfolio but they would rather check the whole collection unless you have something VERY EXCLUSIVE and SPECIAL. Also standard i dont think that image buyers are going on Facebook to search for images. They go directly to Alamy and use the search system. Thats why agencies are there for. Agency will do all the advertisements for their website and automatically also your portfolio since it is included. Thats one of the many reasons why we pay 50% commission for each sale. Also your photos are distributed if you choose for that. I think there is no better advertising. My opinion is the time you spend for social media you can better use for taking more photos. Mirco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 You only have to look at how people have monetized their Instagram work to see how social media can be very helpful to photographers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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