Hi There... Hola... Olá ^^

Hi Angel,

Did you see? You won the daily challenge!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations!

thank you so much for all your great comments. i really appreciate the honest feedback. all the things you like and don't like. kudos to your honesty and critique. I respect your comments!

Angel, ¿ que piensas sobre lo que propongo en Purpose of the group ? 

You got a tripod!!!! Oh the possibilities.  What are you going to do first?  

Hi Angel,

That is a good question and not so easily answered.

Of course you are familiar with the watermark or just putting your name on the image.  Most professional software such as Photoshop and Lightroom have the ability to create a watermark.  If you need more information on this, let me know.

What software do you use?

http://www.panoguide.com/howto/display/watermarking.jsp

As you know, there are plenty of thieves who can simply edit out that watermark if they are good and desperate.   Then you can always have a digital watermark in the metadata.  This is where information about your photograph is stored.  Almost all digital images have somesort of metadata your camera attaches to each image.  This usually is the date it was taken and some information like the ISO, lens, camera, flash fired, etc.  But you can also put the creators name in the metadata.  This can be done by the camera (some setting) or within your professional editing software.

I know in Lightroom, there is an area just for Metadata and I have my name and other information listed so when images are exported, they will each have Ren Reich as creator. 

Here is a link with information on digitally watermarking

http://www.panoguide.com/howto/display/watermarking.jsp

However, I am sure photo thieves can figure out how to change the metadata

You can also register and copyright your images, although I have never done it, with government offices.  Here in the USA we have such an office where you submit your images with some fee and they will hold onto it and have it officially copyrighted so that if you have to go to court you have proof that it’s your image.  It seems like a lot of work, but if you are in photography to make good money, then I guess it’s worth it. 

Here is a link for that

http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl107.html

I hope this helps,

Ren

A big thank you Prieto for your comment.

thank you for your lovely comments angel

Thanx for accepting the request :)

I'm gonna get the cam in 2 or 3 months

It is a loooong time to wait :(