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Hi everyone,
   I've been praying about, and researching possible photo publication for quite awhile, and I may have found a good start.  The thing is, they want a CD, 300dpi, and I'm not comfortable with that.  I've heard nothing good comes from sending high res. images to possible publishers, and although this seems like a perfect match for my work, I'm concerned.  What would you suggest at this point?  Thanks, Jan


Jan Aquino Photography
Prov. 3:5,6

Quote from: bluegypsy on August 10, 2010, 10:24:20 AM
Hi everyone,
   I've been praying about, and researching possible photo publication for quite awhile, and I may have found a good start.  The thing is, they want a CD, 300dpi, and I'm not comfortable with that.  I've heard nothing good comes from sending high res. images to possible publishers, and although this seems like a perfect match for my work, I'm concerned.  What would you suggest at this point?  Thanks, Jan


Jan Aquino Photography
Prov. 3:5,6

If you're not comfortable with it, don't do it. 

I echo What Gary has said!

Place a watermark on your image in a place where it protects you, but doesn't hurt your image so much they cannot still examine it. Place it in a spot where they cannot just photoshop it out in 15 seconds. What's the publication? If someone knows of them and worked with them before they can point you towards more of a solution. That is if they have worked with them/heard of them, they can say they are legit. Some places will indeed need high res pics for you to talk to them. At the end of the day, you own your image so if you do send them something and they use it without your permission, you can go after them. I have done it myself. It's not hard to do, just a pain. However you're in the right and won't lose for them stealing your work.

Check out Shutterbugmom's pictures.  She puts her professional name on her pictures, and it goes into her magazine photo's as well.  I had  forgotten about that  ChevyGal  Thanks for the reminder.

You may be able to get some advice from her as well.

Another option is to create a website as your portfolio and use it as a way to show your work. I prefer Smugmug.com for my website. I like the right click protection they offer. That way I can show my work there and not have big watermarks on everything. Sure people can do a screen capture and steal my stuff, but the quality will be horrible, so it doesn't affect me. Their unlimited storage is nice too. It's a nicely laid out site with nice features. It's cleanly laid out. You can add stuff to it as you want if you want too with coding. It's reasonably priced. I have the middle level site. If you want to get into selling your work where you have an automated check out system, they have a really nice one as well.