[Leica] I got published in Sky & Telescope magazine, but...

[Howard Ritter]

The standard payment for photos printed in the feature where mine appeared is $50. I couldn’t care less about this payment, though. The important thing was to get what I thought was a beautiful image with both esthetic and scientific appeal for fellow amateur astronomers printed in such a way as to retain both. The published image had neither. Images showing just the face of the eclipsed Moon are worthwhile, but only if made with adequate aperture and FL for better detail and resolution, and this wasn’t one of those. Frankly, I’d rather they not have used it than cropped out all of the appeal it had.

—howard


> On Mar 15, 2015, at 5:35 PM, Chris Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:
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> On 3/15/15, 4:03 PM, "Howard Ritter" <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:
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>> 
>> Iąm certainly flattered, and grateful to S&T for giving me my first
>> magazine image publication, but disappointed in the way they chose to do
>> it. Am I being too critical? Or is this just another example of the
>> eternal gulf between "content creators" and editors?
>> 
> 
> 
> Congratulations on being published. As for being upset by how they cropped
> the photo, it depends. Did they pay you? If so, then who caresŠtake your
> money. They bought it, they can do with it what they want. If you donąt
> want published images cropped or altered, you can specify that in the
> rights usage contract, but they might not want the photo in that case. If
> they didnąt pay you, then Iąd not have let them use it, but since you did
> Iąd be mad if the image was altered.
> 
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