Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I just wonder when the agencies will realise the images they are getting are so staged as to be unreal. Gerry Gerry Walden +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or +44 (0)797 287 7932 www.gwpics.com On 26 May 2012, at 13:07, Tina Manley wrote: > I agree 100%, Gerry. I needed the releases to use the photos for > fund-raising and the people understood that. Since I stay with the > families for about a week, one release covers hundreds of photos. Of > course I told them what the release said and what it meant to sign it. It > also gave me a way of keeping track of who is who so I can take the photos > back to them later. I'm sure Getty would not accept the releases I have > but that's not a problem because I would never sell through Getty anyway! > > I agree the industry requirements are ridiculous but it's only going to get > worse in the future! I doubt we'll be able to use any photos featuring > real people. They will all be computer generated! > > Tina > > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> > wrote: > >> Thanks for the pretty full answer >> >> Please do not take this in any way as a personal criticism, but you have >> highlighted a point that I have felt so long about the whole model release >> 'thing' which I have felt for a very long time. Most, if not all, agencies >> now require releases for any image that shows a person no matter how >> nebulous. You have a release for the person in a language they do not >> understand with a signature which means nothing because it is merely a >> mark. Is there any value to that release at all? >> >> As I said, this is not a criticism of you in any way, but more of the >> industry and the stupidity of its requirements where a release is now >> required for a crowd scene which may contain several hundred people, and >> for what. There is virtually no chance that those people would take action >> in court for damages, and even less chance that they would win. As >> photographers we have to pander to the stupidity of their requirements or >> they will not use our images. >> >> Rant over! >> >> Gerry >> >> Gerry Walden >> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or >> +44 (0)797 287 7932 >> www.gwpics.com >> >> On 25 May 2012, at 22:37, Tina Manley wrote: >> >>> Yes, such as they are! I have pocket releases in Spanish sometimes >> signed >>> with an X but I have everybody's name. Most adults cannot read and write >>> in any language and the ones from the Mosquito Coast speak a variety of >>> languages. Usually, I find a child in the family who can read and she/he >>> writes down all of the names and ages for me and then I can match the >> names >>> to the photos. Everybody signs a pocket release and I have them all >> filed >>> by year. >>> >>> Thanks, Gerry. >>> >>> Tina >>> >>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> >> wrote: >>> >>>> I love the intimacy and simplicity of this image Tina. >>>> >>>> As a matter of interest, did you get releases for all this work? >>>> >>>> Gerry >>>> >>>> Gerry Walden >>>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or >>>> +44 (0)797 287 7932 >>>> www.gwpics.com >>>> >>>> On 25 May 2012, at 20:56, Tina Manley wrote: >>>> >>>>> PESO: >>>>> >>>>> If you hadn't guessed already, I'm scanning slides of Honduran children >>>>> (61949) and it's way too hot to work outside today!! >>>>> >>>>> Here's one more: >>>>> >>>>> http://www.pbase.com/image/143566316 >>>>> >>>>> The ones I'm scanning now are a mixture of color negative (Fujicolor >>>> 800), >>>>> color slides (Astia or Provia, usually), and B&W negatives (TMax or >>>> Tri-X). >>>>> All processed in LR4. >>>>> >>>>> C&C greatly appreciated >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Tina Manley, ASMP >>>>> www.tinamanley.com >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Tina Manley, ASMP >>> www.tinamanley.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information