Professional Watermark with URL or no?

[MLphoto]

(Name) Photography <--- watermark

Professionally speaking or what most people do, should a website URL be included with a watermark? or is it to much?

just asking what most people do.

[dreamcatcher23]

use your URL. that way when a photo turns up somewhere, it's really easy to find out who owns it to report it/order it/ book you etc. etc.

[Hikin Mike]

I watermark all of my photos on the web. I make a brush and I just add it to the photo...

http://www.imagesinthebackcountry.com/images/watermark.gif

[ryant35]

use your URL. that way when a photo turns up somewhere, it's really easy to find out who owns it to report it/order it/ book you etc. etc.


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[Floriantrojer.com]

use your URL. that way when a photo turns up somewhere, it's really easy to find out who owns it to report it/order it/ book you etc. etc.

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[LuckyStar]

never thought of that.
good idea!

[WillMass]

I too agree with dreamcatcher.

Of course, that was the point when I started this discussion: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=700567

[The Stig]

That's what I do. Why not?

[ryant35]

I had to go back and dig out this thread due to what happened to me last week.

I started to show my URL as my watermark a couple of years ago, and I have proof it pays off. One of the racers I photographed took one of my photos with my watermark-URL and put it on his My Space. No big deal, I saw it there and didn't really care.

So one of his sponsors saw it on his My Space went to my website and ordered $140 worth of prints.

[TTk]

I'v always used my URL as a copyright.:)

[e02937]

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