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Watermarks...?

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HarkStudios
Posts: 243 - Karma: 121
I searched around, and I saw nobody talking about watermarks..

What do people think?

I personally in Lightroom have it set to put my email in the bottom left corner of all my photos in super small font (so it isn't annoying, but is still there)

Thoughts on using Metadata?

I am trying to decide if I should try and create a watermark or not...

You can find my photos @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/elihark
Feb 6 2015 9:04AM
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Laurent.
Posts: 10056 - Karma: 25,313
Do you sell your pictures? No? Then don't use a watermark.
Feb 6 2015 12:12PM
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CameraWiz
Posts: 735 - Karma: 2,112
I personally have a watermark but it always goes in the corner and is fairly small. I've had some of my pictures shown to large audience's so that's why mines there.
Feb 6 2015 1:32PM
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StokeFactor
Posts: 348 - Karma: 1,012
Having your email or logo in small in the corner of photos you post online is a good idea, but if you're not selling your pictures a watermark is useless.
Feb 6 2015 2:32PM
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EbonSupplyCo
Posts: 73 - Karma: 421
I use a watermark on any photo I take that will be posted anywhere online... Never know when someone could snag that up, post it on their website and claim it as their own.
Feb 10 2015 12:46PM
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Mr.noodle
Posts: 1361 - Karma: 4,655
Those pics look pretty personal so you probably wont need them, but it's your call
Feb 11 2015 3:07PM
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Sklar
Posts: 8864 - Karma: 31,612
I've gone through the spectrum.
I used to watermark my shots (quite obnoxiously) right when I started "calling myself a photographer." It was dumb, it was unnecessary, my shots were mediocre, it looked bad.
Then as my shots got less bad, and I started to realize a bit more in on the big picture, I shurnk my watermark, made a new one and made it way less obnoxious. It was still probably unnecessary.
Now I don't watermark my shots, because I think its unnecessary. I do sell my shots. But if its something that gets posted online it won't get sold anyways.
Feb 11 2015 3:34PM
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jfxphoto
Posts: 2038 - Karma: 2,346
No don't watermark your shit.


Simple as that lol.
Feb 11 2015 6:46PM
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