Is it illegal to paint someone else's photo?

12 years 3 months ago #200471 by Darrell
Kydroon, I have to agree with you 100%.
There should be more effort spent on the intent of the law. I was visiting a friend who showed me a painting of a barn he was working on. On an easel was a picture of the barn, it was my picture, I was delighted and if he was to sell it I would be very proud. Now if you actually took my picture and changed it in PS and claimed that as your work, without giving me credit for original I would be upset....

You will not be judged as a photographer by the pictures you take, but by the pictures you show.
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12 years 3 months ago #200634 by icepics
Before the internet if someone wanted my photos they'd have to obtain the physical prints. To me, having them online is a way to display photos, I don't consider it to be intellectual property as much as it being my work or my craft.

I didn't get up and go to work at my job every day without getting a paycheck; I expect to be compensated for my work. Even if it's a hobby a photo belongs to the person who created it, and it's their choice how it's used. When I was using shared studios that were available to the public at a local university, the people using the pottery studio for example would have a choice of what to do with their completed works - keep them, display them in the art building, give them to someone, sell them - but someone coming in to the art building and taking their pieces would be stealing.

Ronnie you made an interesting point and I think that's the tricky part, how to monitor usage if you put your photos online. I think that every photo is a lttle part of the sum total of the photographer's experience, talent, training (whether it's self-taught or more formal training) etc.

Sharon
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11 years 10 months ago #235636 by Reges Pineze
I think I have a diferent look on that question

1 - I never upload a full resolution image fot two reasons: the time it would take to upload and the risk of someone getting my image and using in a wrong way.
2 - The purpose. What someone is going to do with my image? If its not a hight resolution file what kind of print they can do? Comercial? I dont think so.
3 - Photoshop? Yes, fell free to use my images in any way you want in PS, cause they are in low resolution and probably you are studing, training and just creating something to exercise your creativity... so, no problem for me too about that.

I think this problem exist only in a commercial action and I only had problems with my images used in sites, cause sites uses the same low resolution and sometimes they need only a little image. But only when they are using it commercialy.

But I can be wrong in my thoughts.


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11 years 10 months ago #235639 by boriqua latina
There are jealous people out there as well, I know of a person stealing one of my photos and working on removing my copyright name on the photos... :slapface: :slapface:


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11 years 10 months ago #235640 by boriqua latina

Reges Pineze wrote: I think I have a diferent look on that question

1 - I never upload a full resolution image fot two reasons: the time it would take to upload and the risk of someone getting my image and using in a wrong way.
2 - The purpose. What someone is going to do with my image? If its not a hight resolution file what kind of print they can do? Comercial? I dont think so.
3 - Photoshop? Yes, fell free to use my images in any way you want in PS, cause they are in low resolution and probably you are studing, training and just creating something to exercise your creativity... so, no problem for me too about that.

I think this problem exist only in a commercial action and I only had problems with my images used in sites, cause sites uses the same low resolution and sometimes they need only a little image. But only when they are using it commercialy.

But I can be wrong in my thoughts.



:agree: with 1 2 and 3 ...


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11 years 10 months ago #235663 by msubobcats64
I actually had this come up the other day. An old friend of mine messaged me on facebook and told me he'd pay me to let him do a whole series of paintings based on my photographs. He's an amazing painter and his work sells in the 500-$1,000 range. I asked him if it was possible to do a trade, if he'd give me one of the final paintings and in exchange I'd give him any full resolution files he wanted to paint. We both loved the idea and I'm honored to have him paint some of my photos.

Now if it wasn't somebody I knew I'd have a little more trouble just freely sending my full resolution files to anybody.

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