In Photos dot OrgNational Geographic » In Photos dot Org http://inphotos.org no photoshopped images here Wed, 22 May 2013 22:12:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Stupid Photo Thief http://inphotos.org/2011/05/20/stupid-photo-thief/ http://inphotos.org/2011/05/20/stupid-photo-thief/#comments Fri, 20 May 2011 10:02:00 +0000 Donncha http://inphotos.org/?p=5554 It’s inevitable that photos put online will be stolen. It’s a fact of life unfortunately. People think that just because something is on a website they can use it and claim the photo is there own. Sometimes it just gets silly however. Check out this guy’s photos on photo competition site pictures2win.com. If you’ve been [...]

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]]> It’s inevitable that photos put online will be stolen. It’s a fact of life unfortunately. People think that just because something is on a website they can use it and claim the photo is there own.

Sometimes it just gets silly however.

Check out this guy’s photos on photo competition site pictures2win.com. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you may recognise this photo. It looks very familiar doesn’t it?

With the help of Google Goggles on my Android phone I checked a few more photos. This photo of Venice (despite the author saying it’s in Pakistan) looks suspiciously like this one from the National Geographic. I’m sure they won’t be too happy to see that.

The Pictures2Win T&C of course include the condition that photos “must be the work of the individual submitting them” but there’s no link to report stolen images. I contacted Martin at that site. Hopefully he’ll take a look at that user’s account and take appropriate measures.

Thanks to _jmphotography for telling me about this photo theft.

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]]> http://inphotos.org/2011/05/20/stupid-photo-thief/feed/ 4 Jetman Yves Rossy lands, who is the photographer? http://inphotos.org/2008/09/30/jetman-yves-rossy-lands-who-is-the-photographer/ http://inphotos.org/2008/09/30/jetman-yves-rossy-lands-who-is-the-photographer/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:24:00 +0000 Donncha http://inphotos.org/?p=2989 Matt reminded my wife that the National Geographic Channel were showing the Jetman documentary last weekend. Yves Rossy flew across the English Channel from France to the UK last week while strapped to a rocket powered wing. I finally got to watch it last night and enjoyed it immensely. It’s a great achievement. Slightly mad [...]

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]]> Matt reminded my wife that the National Geographic Channel were showing the Jetman documentary last weekend. Yves Rossy flew across the English Channel from France to the UK last week while strapped to a rocket powered wing. I finally got to watch it last night and enjoyed it immensely. It’s a great achievement. Slightly mad perhaps, and very risky, but I have one question though.

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Who is this photographer who managed to get snapshots of Yves seconds after he landed? I’d say it’s a compact camera he has in his hand so he’s not a pro, and the commentator was heard to say something like, “close friends are running up to..”

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Seconds later, a security guard rushed up and pushed the photographer away and that was the last we saw of him. Was he arrested?

The next scene was a crowd of press photographers, with DSLRs and video cameras pushing around Yves. I bet they’d have given anything to get a close up shot of the Jetman landing..

More details and a video can be found in this Times article.
Aperture ƒ/2.8
Camera N73
Focal length 5.6mm
ISO 125
Shutter speed 1/53s

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