Other photographers copying your images?

John_B wrote in post #4959208
gribs,
I take it you are GriBBsY's on Flickr?
Well welcome to the POTN forum

Your post was long but yet Courteous,
I commend you on that

+1 on the post and the welcome.

J.

Wow this is amazing. Who would have thought the accused would come track this down and respond!

agent.media wrote in post #4960789
Wow this is amazing. Who would have thought the accused would come track this down and respond!

Which is why you have to be careful what you write/publish on the internet...

I think several people were lucky here that "Gribs" only turned up armed with some mildly harsh words and not a wedge of court papers for accusers, forum and forum's ISP...

Well for one i'm glad that he did. I've had some time to think about this and i've realised that i've really jumped to conclusions and been OTT with my reaction to seeing similar shots to mine online..
I've had some good advice from everyone on here and i thank you for that..
The next time Grib's is in folkestone i think we should go for a beer and scout some locations

Can't lay low on the WWW.

Peace. Go shoot, life's too short to scrap over a photo or two.

I like both the shots, although the light on #1 intrigues me a bit more.

bubbawillums wrote in post #4962961
The next time Grib's is in folkestone i think we should go for a beer and scout some locations

bubbawillums,
Now that sounds like good thinking

If someone has like 100 images that are almost identical to yours, I would say that could warrant a talking to.. but you know, personally I think there are only so many beautiful locations in the world. That's an amazing location. If I lived near it, I might want to go take some photos there. I wouldn't purposely try to recreate your image/POV, and maybe that's what he did.. but I know that I do keep an eye out for cool local locations that I can use for engagement sessions and things like that..

But all that being said, if I saw someone had tried to copy everything about my photos, a lot of them, yeah, I'd get mad.

Thanks for the welcome. An odd way to join a forum, but hey.

bubbawillums and I have exchanged emails and the matter is closed. Cheers.

auroraskye wrote in post #4963228
If someone has like 100 images that are almost identical to yours, I would say that could warrant a talking to..

But what happens if they took the photos first?

gribs wrote in post #4964202
Thanks for the welcome. An odd way to join a forum, but hey.

Indeed, I have to say I have never seen anything quite like this thread (how it turned out), it really is amazing.

daveleeuk wrote in post #4966863
Indeed, I have to say I have never seen anything quite like this thread (how it turned out), it really is amazing.

Sure is and were up for a group meet up soon to take some cool pics... Great how what started as a negative can soon turn into a positive

haha. wow. this is nuts!