Re: AW: [STOCKPHOTO] Stock Submissions & EXIF Data

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David Barr

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Jan 3, 2007, 9:32:00 PM1/3/07
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>Doing this deletes all the exif-information and the keywording is done
>seperately after this.
>
>Also i must say that i have some pictures running with several agencies that
>are made with a compact digital camera and there where no complains about
>those pictures :o)
>
>Greetings
>Dietmar

Hi Deitmar

I have a similar workflow but saving a copy as a JPG thankfully does
not remove the information about the camera or any of the other
associated keywords and contact details.

I had a look at your site and if a client pulls a picture off of your
screen to try in a comp and then can't remember where they grabbed
the picture from how would they find you with all your info fields
empty? You don't even include a copyright notice.

If the client keeps that picture on their computer and at a later
date unable to find you,claims the picture as an orphan work and uses
it on a web page would your have any recourse? I know that orphan
works legislation has been stopped for the moment in the US but just
in case it does pass at some time I would prefer that all info remain
with my pictures.

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Thomas Hallstein

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Jan 3, 2007, 9:41:29 PM1/3/07
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David,

What I meant by screen-grab is a screen shot also known as Print Screen.

Using drag and drop as you did is the same as "save picture as" on the right-click context menu.

Tom

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>
>Just a small clarification here: Metadata is not copied when you do a
>screen-grab. You're only snatching pixels. If a person saves an image via
>"Save Picture as" in their browser, they are copying the complete
>file and will
>get any embedded metadata.
>
>Best to All,
>Tom
>^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^
>Thomas Hallstein

Hi Tom

I just visited my own home page at http://www.photobar.com and pulled
of the happy new year picture by dragging it onto my desktop and it
came with all the embedded data?

Is this different because I'm using a MAC?



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David Riecks

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Jan 3, 2007, 9:44:07 PM1/3/07
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At 09:42 AM 1/3/2007, Dietmar Scholtz wrote:
>i use photoshop to run all the
>images into .jpg.


>Doing this deletes all the exif-information and the keywording is done
>seperately after this.

Dietmar:

Just saving an image as a Jpeg with photoshop
doesn't delete the EXIF data, unless you are
using the "Save For Web" (SFW) option.

Unfortunately, using the SFW option will also
remove ALL of your image metadata, not just EXIF.
PLUS you have to remember to check the ICC
profile box if you want that saved as well. Using
SFW is IMO, the fastest way to create Orphan images.

That's why, in the Metadata Manifesto
(http://metadatamanifesto.blogspot.com/) that we
made the suggestion that actions that remove
metadata should NOT be the default in how imaging
applications work, and that if metadata is to be
removed the user should be explicitly warned of
this in advance of their action.

There is an option buried in the Output Settings
dialog of the SFW feature (hidden beneath the
black triangle and using the "Edit Output
Settings" to reveal the dialog) that you might want to check out.

If you go in and make sure that the "Settings"
pull down is at "Default Settings" then change
the second pull down to "Saving Files" and make
sure that the "Include Copyright" box is checked
at the bottom of that dialog box before clicking
the OK button, then you might think that you are
saving your copyright information. However you'd
be wrong. That information no longer appears
within the IPTC, IPTC Core or EXIF sections of
your image. Instead, it's hidden somewhere
outside of those in a portion of the header that
is not used by any system of which I'm aware.

Here's what it looks like for a studio portrait that I tested this on.....

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u n d e l l , s t u d i o p o r t r a i t
R ' © 2 0 0 6 D a v i d R i e c k s , a l
l r i g h t s r e s e r v e d ÿâXICC_PROFILE HLino mntrRGB XYZ Î

Nice, huh?

David

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Thomas Hallstein

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From: David Barr

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>I had a look at your site and if a client pulls a picture off of your
>screen to try in a comp and then can't remember where they grabbed
>the picture from how would they find you with all your info fields
>empty? You don't even include a copyright notice.

Just a small clarification here: Metadata is not copied when you do a
screen-grab. You're only snatching pixels. If a person saves an image via
"Save Picture as" in their browser, they are copying the complete file and will
get any embedded metadata.

Best to All,
Tom
^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^
Thomas Hallstein

Outsight Photography
Santa Rosa, CA USA
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Peter Bennett

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Jan 3, 2007, 10:00:16 PM1/3/07
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Hi David,

I know Tom uses a Windows machine so he may not know how to do a screen grab
on a Mac. What you described is not a screen grab but rather a download,
albeit you dragged it to your desktop. You can do a screen grab by pressing
Command Shift 3. What will appear on your desktop is a screen grab literally
of your whole desktop, which you can open in PS or Preview. It will be named
Picture 1. It's a handy little tool.

Thanks

Peter Bennett
Ambient Images Inc.
P: 310-312-6640

Specializing in New York and California images
http://www.californiastockphoto.com
http://www.newyorkstockphoto.com



>
> From: David Barr <photobar@PHOTOBAR.COM>
>>
>> Just a small clarification here: Metadata is not copied when you do a
>> screen-grab. You're only snatching pixels. If a person saves an image via
>> "Save Picture as" in their browser, they are copying the complete
>> file and will
>> get any embedded metadata.
>>
>> Best to All,
>> Tom
>> ^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^
>> Thomas Hallstein
>

> Hi Tom
>
> I just visited my own home page at http://www.photobar.com and pulled
> of the happy new year picture by dragging it onto my desktop and it
> came with all the embedded data?
>
> Is this different because I'm using a MAC?
>
> David Barr
> --
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> Simplify your Search <http://www.photobar.com>Photobar
>
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Rich Green

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When submitting images for stock from a digital camera, is it acceptable or not to eliminate
the EXIF Data (by copying the image to new document). I'm not particularly excited about
anyone knowing how I took a photo, but if it's required, then I will comply. I've only
submitted a few images (so far), and they've been from scanned film where the EXIF info is
obviously not a problem.

Thank you for any response.

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David Barr

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>
>Just a small clarification here: Metadata is not copied when you do a
>screen-grab. You're only snatching pixels. If a person saves an image via
>"Save Picture as" in their browser, they are copying the complete
>file and will
>get any embedded metadata.
>
>Best to All,
>Tom
>^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^
>Thomas Hallstein

Hi Tom

I just visited my own home page at http://www.photobar.com and pulled
of the happy new year picture by dragging it onto my desktop and it
came with all the embedded data?

Is this different because I'm using a MAC?

David Barr
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Simplify your Search <http://www.photobar.com>Photobar

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Dietmar Scholtz

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Jan 3, 2007, 10:34:51 PM1/3/07
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Hi all,

never had problems with that so far. In my workflow i develop the RAW DATA
into 16bit tif and make if neccessary some changes in Photoshop. After all
is done in the complete series of pictures, i use photoshop to run all the


images into .jpg.
Doing this deletes all the exif-information and the keywording is done
seperately after this.

Also i must say that i have some pictures running with several agencies that
are made with a compact digital camera and there where no complains about
those pictures :o)

Greetings
Dietmar


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Rich Green wrote:

> When submitting images for stock from a digital camera, is it
acceptable or not to eliminate
> the EXIF Data (by copying the image to new document). I'm not
particularly excited about

> anyone knowing how I took a photo...

Rich:

Obviously if no EXIF is present (as in a scan from film) there is
nothing worth saving. However, it's interesting you should ask this
right now. There was something I just read that was a plea from a
large standards body (one that has three letters for their
abbreviation) asking all involved with metadata to preserve not only
IPTC but EXIF and other forms of meta information as well. They were
particularly interested in preserving color profile information, so
that might give you a hint.

I do understand the need for photographers not wishing to
share "proprietary" information, like focal length, shutter and
aperture settings, as well as how the flash may have been employed,
etc. However, many photographers have exploited this system by
removing the EXIF information regarding their camera make/model to
hide the fact that they may be using a digital camera that's deemed
inadequate by their distributor (what we used to call agencies).

IMHO, this is a fault of both distributor and photographer.
Distributors need to actually look at and evaluate the image, rather
than sorting and evaluating images solely based on metadata. It's
deceptively easy to give a quality control inspector instructions to
only allow images shot with Canon 1DS mark II's and Nikon D2X's and
reject all the rest.

However that simply means that some photographers will react by hiding
that information from the distributor forcing them to evaluate the
image on it's own merits.

Personally, at this point in time, I leave that information in all my
archive master files. However, it's your decision on what to do with
images that you send on to your distributor.

Hope that helps.



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At 05:07 PM 1/3/2007, David Barr wrote:
>I just visited my own home page at http://www.photobar.com and pulled
>of the happy new year picture by dragging it onto my desktop and it
>came with all the embedded data?
>
>Is this different because I'm using a MAC?

David:

Yes, it's different. Dragging an image from a webpage with a mac is
the same as using the "right click" and save image as with a windows
computer. In that sense it's a "real image" rather than a screen
grab, and thus, can include metadata.



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Hi David

Just tried it with a PC and IE. The metadata came across.

Shaughn

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On 3 Jan 2007, at 15:00, David Riecks wrote:

> Personally, at this point in time, I leave that information in all my
> archive master files. However, it's your decision on what to do with
> images that you send on to your distributor.

Camera EXIF info isn't that difficult to remove. You can use a script
by Brian Price from the Adobe site and use it to batch files. It
basically creates a duplicate file that doesn't have any EXIF info
and then dumps the contents of the original file into it.

I was probably one of the first few to discover the above route,
which isn't that difficult to sus if you know Photoshop, and then
Brian Price came along and wrote the script after a discussion on
another list.

Interestingly, the info that we all want to preserve, such as
copyright and contact info, can be removed without any problem by
anyone with "newbie" knowledge of Photoshop but the info that most
photographers would rather not reveal cannot be removed as easily. Go
figure.

If replying to this email, please do NOT quote my address.

Shangara Singh.

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" It's deceptively easy to give a quality control inspector instructions to
only allow images shot with Canon 1DS mark II's and Nikon D2X's and
reject all the rest. However that simply means that some photographers will react by hiding
that information from the distributor forcing them to evaluate the
image on it's own merits."

Are there really agents (distributors) that arrogant and close minded that they wouldn't review submissions based on the type of camera used ???

I know the answer is, unfortunately and amazingly, yes. However, anyone with common sense knows it's not the tools used to make the image, but the marketability of the image that is paramount. Obviously, any camera, no matter how expensive, and how many megapixels, is useless if its output is not marketable.

Would agents (distributors) really want to forgo marketable imagery based solely on the tools used to create it? A scary, illogical, short sighted policy indeed !

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Len Holsborg
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Hi all, I dont know if this is my distraction, but I cant preserve
IPTC and EXIF data in the Save for Web Photoshop option.
There is a way to do this?

Thanks for help, Leo

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On 03/01/2007, at 23:50, David Riecks wrote:

> At 05:07 PM 1/3/2007, David Barr wrote:
> >I just visited my own home page at http://www.photobar.com and pulled
> >of the happy new year picture by dragging it onto my desktop and it
> >came with all the embedded data?
> >
> >Is this different because I'm using a MAC?
>
> David:
>
> Yes, it's different. Dragging an image from a webpage with a mac is
> the same as using the "right click" and save image as with a windows
> computer. In that sense it's a "real image" rather than a screen
> grab, and thus, can include metadata.
>
> David
>
> --
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> See the new Universal Photo Digi-Image Guidelines at http://
> www.updig.org/
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> Visit http://ControlledVocabulary.com if you are creating an image
> database
>
>
>

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> I cant preserve
>IPTC and EXIF data in the Save for Web Photoshop option.
>There is a way to do this?
>

Leo
Save as sRGB rather than "for web" which presumably is also same sRGB
but cleaned of all info.
We are currently processing images for a new website and found that
saving as sRGB to preserve metadata meant much bigger jpgs than we
wanted for the very small thumbs so we save these small 110 pixels for
web but the larger ( most useful to steal ;-) previews in sRGB with all
info intact. Even with a lot of compression small jpgs are relatively
large in file size in sRGB with preserved metadata. Its not an issue for
the larger previews which typically display one at a time and therefore
sensible to include data.

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