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Originally Posted by Leablahblah
I completely agree that if the photos are not taken by you then it should be credited…
That should avoid some weird situations where you think that these people are your family…
For stock photos I use when I can’t find what I’m looking for in mine (or if a designer I work with prefers non blurry photos) I always credit Unsplash and also the name of the photographer.
But for photos taken by a professional photographer for our family, I have the release forms and I don’t credit them here. At that point I own the photos. Am I doing this right? Should I be crediting the photographer? Some of them I don’t even remember the name of the person who took the photos…
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I have a few friends who are family photographers, I am 100% sure they would love to see their images credited, I have asked a few times some British scrapers who the photographer was and ended up hav9ng photo shoots with their photographer..
This is a business, and these days things work with word of mouth, when crediting your photographer, you may be helping the photographer to get more business, you never know
My daughter is an actress, (and a manager at a gastro pub day time) she works in musicals and screen acting, she has at least a photo shoot a year, photographers don't ask to be credited when it goes to an audition form, but they most definitely do when the photos go in a portfolio, a web site or social media.... it gets them work. A few years ago I got an email from Andrew Brown who had done her shoot, I posted pages in social media and credited him together with the designers, he wrote to me to tell us that he had got clients that came through seeing my pages in Instagram....... I reckon these days, in which is tricky because of the way the internet (and the human race!) works, I credit each and everything, down to the staple with scrapbook pages... even more so photos ....