One of my white shark images from Guadalupe showed up much to my surprise on the nationally televised CBS Early Show. The image was not one of my better ones, and I think it's actually a screen-cap from some video I shot at Guadalupe years ago. I had used the image on my blog sometime last year, and TinEye doesn't reveal any other instances of the image elsewhere on the web, so I'm guessing somebody just pulled it from my blog. The image is the white shark image shown over the anchor's shoulder in the right-corner when the story initially starts.
I'm not a pro-shooter, so it's not like I'm losing out on anything by CBS using my image, but I was a bit surprised to see it there, considering the resources that a major tv network should have. I would have been happy to provide CBS with some much better white shark images for free (with a photo credit), if only somebody had asked.
There may be another use of your photo.
Did you enter it in a contest on Photobucket? If not, someone has entered it as their photo (judging from their photostream, it is not theirs). It can be found in this contest;
Scroll around and you will find it. I hope you didn't enter it as I called it out. Ooops?
If your sure it's your image I would contact CBS and send them a bill. You need to be paid for your work even if you don't conceder yourself a pro.
The problem is a lot of these images look the same and if the guy in the cage next to you submits his image it's sometimes even harder to see a difference.
I don't doubt that it's yours I would just double check.
If your sure it's your image I would contact CBS and send them a bill. You need to be paid for your work even if you don't conceder yourself a pro.
The problem is a lot of these images look the same and if the guy in the cage next to you submits his image it's sometimes even harder to see a difference.
I don't doubt that it's yours I would just double check.
I did several comparisons with the photo and and screen-caps from the CBS vid. As you can see in the above comparison, there is a mackerel scad tail in the exact same spot on the left side of the photo, the shark is in the same position, lighting is identical. It seems the image might have been additionally processed, but I'm fairly certain it's the same image. I've even done overlay in PS with the original image on a layer and the screencap below and modified the opacity for comparison's sake. There is even a particle of "scatter" above the tail of the mackerel scad that shows up in the exact same spot in both images when viewed at full-size.
Did you enter it in a contest on Photobucket? If not, someone has entered it as their photo (judging from their photostream, it is not theirs). It can be found in this contest;
Scroll around and you will find it. I hope you didn't enter it as I called it out. Ooops?
I've never entered any Photobucket contests, but I didn't see my photo in there (although, I didn't look at every single picture). The white shark photo that appears in the top-15 of that contest is the same one that was added to the Creative Commons by somebody who didn't actually take it. However, that photo is not mine.
EDIT: Sorry for the double-post.
Looks like the same photo to me. For pricing I usually check the Getty and Alamy sites.
oh great ....
enter to photobucket contest
What were the rules of the photobucket contest? Did you forfeit your copyright to enter?
