COPY RIGHT !

Without copyright it would be very unfair to the photographer! If i was to take a photo and copyright laws did not exist then anyone could use that photo without giving me credit or pay. They could even claim it as their own an get away with it!

Copyright lasts the life of the creator (the photographer in this case) plus 70 years.

Under law, it is the photographer who will own copyright on any photos he/she has taken, with the following exceptions:

If the photographer is an employee of the company the photos are taken for, or is an employee of a company instructed to take the photos, the photographer will be acting on behalf of his/her employer, and the company the photographer works for will own the copyright.
If there is an agreement that assigns copyright to another party.

In all other cases, the photographer will retain the copyright, if the photographer has been paid for his work, the payment will be for the photographer’s time and typically an allocated number of prints. The copyright to the photos will remain with the photographer, and therefore any reproduction without permission would be an infringement of copyright.

The purpose of registration is to ensure that you have proper, independently verifiable, evidence of your work. This ensures that if another party steals your photos you have solid evidence to prove your claim.

Without registration it can be very difficult, and often impossible, to prove your ownership if another person claims the photo belong to them.

As with all copyright work, you should first obtain permission from the copyright owner before you use someone else’s work.You should also be prepared to pay a fee, as many photographers will charge you for using their work.

Only the copyright owner, (or his/her authorised representative), can give permission, so you should contact the photographer, or his/her company, directly for consent. For images published on the Internet, it is typical to contact the webmaster of the site in the first instance, unless the site provides contact details for the owner of the images.

The copyright owner has no obligation to allow you to use their work, and can refuse permission for any reason.

Creating my 50+ Joiner photo

I had been out to take my photos for my final joiner photograph. I opened up photoshop, opened automate and selected Photomerge.  

Once in photomerge i selected "reposition" meaning that photoshop will put all of my pictures together in place, like a jigsaw. I then opened up all of the photos i had taken into photoshop and clicked "ok".

It took some time for photoshop to analyse all of the pictures and fit them together as there were so many pictures, even though i had taken them all in the smallest size! 

Photoshop had now repositioned all of the pictures for me and gave me my full joiner image. 

I then added in a new fill layer and chose solid colour so that i could create a background for around the edges of the joiner photo.

I chose to make the new fill layer black as i felt it was most suitable as it is not distracting and works best around the edges of the photo.

I have now put the solid colour fill layer in place as a border/background for the photo. I then decided to change the size of the photograph to make it smaller. This would mean it would take less time to upload onto the internet and take up less space.

Once i had resized the photo to a size i felt right, i saved the photo for wed devices. This means that the photo will be sized and already fitted for websites and uploading.

I then saved the picture to my desktop with the format "images only".

This is my Final image containing over 50+ photographs to create the joiner photograph. In the photo you can see that i took pictures of my legs and feet fro different angles. When photoshop added all of the photos together, the different angles of my legs confused it and therefore they were added as separate bodies. I could have chosen to edit this out of the photograph but i decided i quite liked the effect.

Diane Arbus research.

I think that this is a rather dramatic photograph, with strain of emotion and anger being shown through the boy. I think this because of how the boy is standing, he is confronting the camera. The way he is tensing and clenching his hand gives the impression of frustration and the grenade gives me the impression of anger and hate.

Final 50+ Joiner photograph

For my final picture i will be using over 50 photographs combined to create a joiner photo.
I am going to use the atrium as my landscape with the trees included, i will also be including my feet in to the photo.
When taking the photo i will need to keep the photos on a small format. This makes sure the finished photo is not too large a file and it will be quicker to upload and manage.
When i went out to take the photos i ended up taking a lot more than i expected. When i got back and tried to upload them all into a joiner photo but there were too many photos and the computer could not do it.
I am going to have to go back down and re-take the photos, making sure that this time i take less.

Photography joiner of faces

This is a joiner photo using 5 different pictures of friends i then cropped a strip from each face and fitted them all together.

Examples of graphic image makers

The difference between Photomontage and joiner

PhotoMontage 

The technique of making a picture by assembling pieces of photographs, often in combination with other types of graphic material.
Technique by which a composite photographic image is formed by combining images from separate photographic sources

Joiner
involves the use of two or more separately taken images of a single scene to create a larger one by physically overlapping them or by digitally merging them. It differs from montage photography in that it looks to expand the area of view of the photograph as opposed to insert several elements into a given picture frame. From this point on there are many directions to take the image in terms of shape, viewpoints, subject, narrative, time and style. These all involve more personal choices by the creator and provide the potential for a more intimate and individually driven photograph.