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

[Tina Manley]

You should let them know how you feel.  Too many publishers consider
photographers to be content providers and think they can do anything they
want with the content that they have bought when it is actually leased, not
bought.

I would be upset, too, and would be sure that they knew it.

Tina

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 3/15/15, 4:03 PM, "Howard Ritter" <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> 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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