Giving credit protocol

8 years 1 week ago #481885 by Ray Tevich
So if you take a photo and let's say a good friend of yours Photoshops your photo.  If you submit the photo to a photo contest that makes it into a magazine, should you give your friend credit for Photoshop'ing it?  

I'm on the fence about this.  

I appreciate the 411 on this one.  


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8 years 1 week ago #481928 by effron
If its really your friend, then yes you credit him.....

Why so serious?
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8 years 1 week ago #481936 by Ontherocks
I was going to say the same thing.  But this does bring up a question for me.  Would you be legally bond to do so?


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8 years 1 week ago #481969 by icepics
I don't think I've ever seen a photo credit that credits the photographer and whoever photoshopped it. I don't know if there would be a way to credit someone who helped you by doing the editing.

For a magazine you'd need to look at their guidelines for submission. If it's a contest check the rules.

In my experience the expectation is usually that the photographer did their own work. Having someone edit your work seems fine if it's for personal use, or if a photographer hires/pays someone to edit their photos.

But to submit it for use in a publication or contest as your own work when someone helped you seems iffy or unacceptable for that purpose.

Sharon
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8 years 1 week ago #481977 by Denise Lattimer
:agree:


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8 years 1 week ago #482000 by Frost Photography
I think if you have the opportunity to give recognition, then go for it.  Could be good karma.  Not to mention score future favors.  

"The quickest way to make money at photography is to sell your camera."
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8 years 1 week ago #482067 by Camera Diva
If it's a photo credit spot only, you might not have the chance to do so.  If it's a editorial piece on the photo, then yes.  IMO that would be good practice. 

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8 years 1 week ago #482099 by msmith55

Camera Diva wrote: If it's a photo credit spot only, you might not have the chance to do so.  If it's a editorial piece on the photo, then yes.  IMO that would be good practice. 


Took the words right out of my mouth.


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8 years 1 week ago #482101 by Rudy Sosa
I would if the space permitted it 


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8 years 1 week ago #482176 by Amy Porter

effron wrote: If its really your friend, then yes you credit him.....



:agree:


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8 years 1 week ago #482181 by Don Fischer
If he's really a friend, he'd give you the credit for taking the photo. Consider if he wasn't your friend of even someone you know, would you let him have the photo? I don't think so. if he'd entered it and given you credit for the photo, no problem.


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8 years 1 week ago #482186 by Ben Vanderbilt
Yeah, I would.  +1 on the good karma and favor in the future.  


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8 years 1 week ago #482191 by Glenn Gee
Add me to the list in favor of giving credit if there is an opportunity to do so. Just the right thing to do.


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8 years 1 week ago #482208 by icepics
There most likely won't be an opportunity to give credit to someone else who edited your photo.

It's up to the editors of a publication how much space is allotted for photos/articles - I learned that in journalism, that you write so any paragraph can be cut and the article still work. You won't be writing the photo credit, you'd provide your information and they'll write it up.

I doubt a magazine or other publication would publish a photo knowing someone else besides the photographer edited it. For a contest it probably depends on contest rules. You may be limited on how you can use a photo that you didn't edit yourself.

Sharon
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8 years 1 week ago #482360 by Connie K Photos
:agree:  


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