The decisive moment with the Leica M3

Interesting that one would take candid photos of people who may react negatively. Then watermark his photos to hell in fear of theft. Irony?
 
No picture is better than a picture with a watermark :)

anyway the others are right...the watermark is in the middle, it also happens to be in the place where the photo is the most interesting and I cannot see anything.
 
I think it is a bit pompous to come to a photography forum and impose its own rules on watermarking, especially when the watermark just ruins the pictures and nobody else does it.
 
FWIW I think the cat jumping photo is quite good. And I get the "feel" of the Alberta photo.

Re: the watermark, I used to use watermarks on my photos, but abandoned the practice long ago thanks to solid advice and some thought. The watermark you're using is rather offensive though. Even major stock photo sites don't use watermarks that take so much away from an image. I dare say you'll find it hard to have a discussion of your images with this community or any other, before approaching your copyright protection differently.
 
The watermark is so distracting to me I have trouble appreciating the images in any meaningful way - my eye is constantly drawn to the text and ruins the process by which I normally view an image. Watermark by all means if that's what you want, but not so large and not slap bang in the middle of the image!!! Just my opinion........ for what it is worth.
 
watermark hurts the eye. I can't be bothered to be watermark too. The moment is when the shutter fires.
 
The watermarks are just to distracting. Nice photos but no need to flatter yourself that they are so good that they are worth stealing.
 
... Sharing my work without watermarks leaves me open or vulnerable and I refuse to accept the risk. ...

Paranoid ?
 
A friendly suggestion: if you are selling/planning to sell the images and are concerned about theft, why not just reserve them for your agency or stock house instead of posting them in an open forum? Also, while your pictures seem to be good, they don't immediately strike me as targets for theft, at least not any more than the hundreds if not thousands of images already available here in the galleries (many of which are by pros, some very established). Finally, as someone who occasionally works with stock images and original photography for broadcast/publication, I can confirm that Pickett Wilson is correct when he says that the low res images accepted by the RFF galleries of are no use to anyone. They're simply too small to work on TV or in print. The worst that can happen is they end up on somebody's (non-paying) blog or website. But that's the risk we take when we decide to share our work with a multitude of strangers on the Internet.

With that out of the way, welcome to RFF!
 
Thanks for all the comments. I really appreciate "everyone's" take on the water mark. Pro and con. Im going to change it to something less "hard on the eye's'. Unfourtunatly my water girl is sleeping:angel: and so that process will have to wait untill a little later in the day. Untill than perhaps we could get the discusion back to the decisive moment, and the photo's in the thread posted so far.
Yes, the woman being helped up in her chair was an incrediblly vunerable and compassionate moment I was honered to witness and photograph.
I had my D3 with a 28 1.4 D AF with me at the same time and made a conscience decision to raise the M3 to my eye and take a single image.

 
Watermark aside, I find the photograph of the physically challenged person an unwarranted intrusion. The photo of the cat jumping is not working as a whole. Looks like you just got a Leica and are pouncing on things. Easy does it.
 
Those copyright notices in the MIDDLE of the photo??? What's up w/ that? And I, or most anyone, could clone them out in Photoshop in about one minute, so I don't understand what's going on here.

Many years ago I had signed a painting in my painting class at UNM rather prominently, and the teacher called me on it. Like most students, I thought I was right, she was wrong, and I had painted a great painting. Years later I understood her point all too well. The painting was just a throwaway. Now I never sign anything except on the back or in tiny initials.

Maybe you should just show a blank area w/ your name and copyright on it?
 
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