[Leica] Re: Stolen photos

[lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

On Dec 10, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Tina wrote:

> The problem with that is that if you want to sell it, you have to
> post it!  99.9% of all photos sold today are searched, found, and
> sold through the internet.  I can't remember the last time I sold a
> photo that had not been posted on the web.


Tina,

I never really appreciated that the web is the major marketing tool  
of free lance photographers these days. I've been out of the selling  
end of photography since the 90s. I was also fortunate enough to be  
located in New York near the offices of most of the magazines that  
published my stuff. I simply made my presentation, then delivered the  
text and photos either directly or through my agent. Real pictures on  
slides or paper prints and typewritten text. Horse and buggy  
technology. I didn't own my first digital camera until 2000.

So I guess my only suggestion for avoiding piracy is to post  
photographs at the lowest pixel count that will make an acceptable  
web picture. Publishers seem to like high resolution images.

Larry Z