Ok , you want to watermark you photos, first you have to ask why you want to do it and the pro’s and con’s of watermarking an image. check out the list below. Personally i don’t care for watermarking, people will use an image and don’t even know that it is wrong, just do a google search for images and it so easy to find the one your looking for. i have better things to do, than to play cyber police, and try to prevent my images from being stolen or used against my will. Most of the images on the web are low resolutions anyway, so you can’t do anything with it except put it back on the web.

If i have to use any type of water marking i will make a frame around the image so it doesn’t distract or cover the image. look to example below.

Pros:

1. it’s copyright for your image.
2. you get credit for you photo.
3. Marketing your brand.

Cons:

1. It takes times.
2. Easily can be removed by photoshop
3. Distraction to the image.

after going through all the options of watermarking, and you still want to do it, here are some software to watermark your images.

1. Photoshop
2. Lightroom
3. Aperture
4. iWatermark

Adobe Photoshop CS5 [Mac]

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

Aperture 3

iWatermark

 

“This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.” 1 John 1:5 don’t want to start preaching, but just like God we want you to understand how important both natural and artificial light is in photography. To create an image both on film or digital, there needs to be a light sorce. Without any light there is no way to create an image, therefore in photography terms, Light = God.

The 3 main factors that effect the the outcome of a image and how the camera reacts to light, is aperture, shutter speed and ISO. The three photography terms can be defined by the following:

Aperture is a hole or an opening through which light is admitted. More specifically, the aperture of an optical system is the opening that determines the cone angle of a bundle of rays that come to a focus in the image plane.

Shutter Speed is a common term used to discuss exposure time, the effective amount of time a shutter is open to allow expose an image.

ISO is the sensitivity of the camera sensor to light, the higher the ISO the more light that the camera sensor can read.

The three are in perfect balance, if you change one it effects the others and vice versa. so, you can’t just focus on one principle, like the “aperture” is what makes a good image. It’s a combination of all three that make a good exposure.

We will not go over in detail how each setting will effect another setting in reference
to another. For now we want to convey the importance of how each setting effects the exposure of how an image will turn out.

Mahalo for reading, happy shooting!