I got published!

[Geoff]

Not as exciting as Brad's recent exposure but I took a photo of our local butcher yesterday to go along with a news story of his retirement/finishing at the business before it's taken over by new owners. I took my CF card down to the headquarters of the paper (The Manly Daily) and gave them all the images I'd taken. I also gave them my name but they took the photo and didn't credit who took it...bummer. Oh well.

[nito]

Congrats, Geoff. That is so unfair not being credited. Dont they have to give credit where it was due?

[Geoff]

Thanx Nito -I'm not sure that they do. I think from what I can see, they only pay credit to their staff/paid photographers. There are many photos in the paper with no credits, with the exception of their paid/regular photogs

[gstark]

Geoff,

You should complain to the editor, pointing out that this was an (implied) condition of their usage of your copyright.

[MattC]

Good one Geoff

The local papers are a pretty good way of getting your images out there, but is a bit suprising that you did not get a credit for them. Here in TC anyone is welcome to submit images of newsworthy items. Local events, house fires, road accidents (nothing grotesque) are a few common things. Usually it is a case of grabbing a few pics and the paper will do the leg work for the story. I have done a couple of events where all of the images submitted have been used resulting in two pages. Sometimes those events involve the local children - anything involving them is popular and fortunately TC is unaffected by all of the stupidity elsewhere. A spin off is prints for the parents.
There are a lot of newsworthy items that just go begging for the local papers simply because no one picked up a camera and they had no one from the paper there.

Cheers

Matt

[KerryPierce]

Any time you get published, it's a cool deal, Geoff. Congrats.

[stubbsy]

Well done Geoff. I'd suggest an email or a letter asking for clarification on their photo submissions policy. I'd also specifically ask whether their policy is to credit the photographer (hell they do it for their staff and they PAY them) and if so why you weren't credited. Point out they got this for nix and stroking your ego with a credit costs them about the same.

[Geoff]

Thanx people - I will follow it up with them on Monday and let you guys know how I get on. Cheers,

[embi]

Can we see the published image?

[Geoff]

The photo itself is nothing special at all. This is a scanned copy of the paper article so quality aint' too good. But here it is anyway

[Killakoala]

It's not a bad photo at all, very typical of a newspaper style pic. It is definately a pity you didn't get credited with it.

[Manta]

Thumbs up Geoff for a nice human interest photo.

Thumbs down Manly Daily for
a) not crediting you and
b) not putting you on retainer.

I'm cancelling my subscription immediately.