Teh cats thread

Having some fun with Godox 685 flash head and Xpro remote trigger, Panasonic 8-18mm and Teh Cats. Patches, Bug, Fuzz, JJ and One Eye, 3 Leg Jake. Gang of five 11 years old and getting cranky as F.

Cats, posing, cats are people too.

I watermark my photos

therefore I am…

That sound you’re hearing now is the agony of 1000’s of other photographers that don’t like me doing what I want with my photos while normal people could care less about seeing a watermark on them.

There’s plenty of articles about why you should or shouldn’t watermark your photos. They all list the same points.

I watermark them to advertise my name and maybe 1 in a 1000 viewers one day will remember it and search out more of my photos. That’s it, well also to piss off another photographers.

  • I don’t watermark to keep someone from stealing them as that’s silly, its just data on the internet and can be taken and modified anytime. I have no control over it.
  • I don’t watermark to claim copyright ownership as again the photo can be cropped out and someone can add their own watermark.

  • I don’t really care if the watermark might keep someone from using the photo in an article and write about it or back link to my site. If they’re that sensitive I don’t want them looking about my photos lol

If you’re wondering what CC BY-NC-SA stands for, you can read it here https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Building the site

Its taken a few weeks to get the site 95% finished as my OCD would kick in every 30 min and something had to change. Finally have it live but still debating gallery style design but for now I’ll leave it as it.

The site runs on WordPress and Oshine theme which cost about $29 USD. Took some time to figure it out and kinda annoying to have to flip back and forth sometimes between settings for each page/post vs using a Tatsu editor.

At the beginning it was a bit annoying figuring out the header/navigation and footer design, as unless you choose the Tatsu Header and Footer builders the design of those is pretty ridgit and the documentation for the theme is pretty basic.