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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Jaliwanwallabag and...
Jaliwanwallabag and...
I feel really sad to see that there is not a single politician who is eager to solve the present problem in Singur, Baruipur or Nandigram. We are losing lives and people are talking about land?
Lord Buddha is adamant to the core, Airborne protective, Priyo ignorant, Patriarch repentant, Goodbrata lathi weilding, Italy anxious, Hindus pretensious, So men unseen & unheard, Bloc(k) calls this as unfortunate...and didi is on oxygen. The Guv is unhappy. The 'buddhi jibi's are ashamed, angry. Everyone has a point to prove. Everyone has a viewpoint. Everybody says they are with the people. We are being presented with a bright future by all and sundry - we are being shown the dream of either a green revolution or an industrial revolution. That, when people are losing their near ones as in an epidemic. We are doing it all at the expense of lives.
Nobody thinks about what we, the common masses, feel about this. If not allowing the administration to enter into my territory is my birthright, what wrong did those goons do who gunned down Vinod Mehta, the SP? If police killing people just because they wanted to save their lives is good enough an excuse, why do we regret Tienanmen? Who is at fault? Or, is it the right time to do fault finding? Haven't we lost enough already? And then, we continue these protests. If nothing, then a Bandh call.
I remember a story I heard about a person who went mad. His only madness was to break window glasses. He was treated at a sanitorium for a certain period of time and the doctors were sure he has recovered fully. When he was asked what he would do on his return, he said he would first look for a beautiful wife, take her on a honemoon trip, have a romantic evening sipping coffee together, have a nice dinner, go to bed, undress himself, undress his wife and...
.
use the elastic of the bra straps to create a nice stone thrower (a 'gulti' in Bangla) so that he can more easily and accurately shatter the glasses of the neighbouring buildings' windows.
A Bandh call is like that glass breaking passion of the mad man. Anything and everything that comes our way, the top priority will be to call a bandh.
If staying at home and enjoying a nice time with the family is what we call as protest, give me a chance and I know there are so many things in this world to protest about. I burn a few buses, and tomorrow my nephew gets into a more crowded bus to college. I stop people from going anywhere. I ensure patients die in ambulances, I ensure bereaved family members do not get a chance to even have a last view of the dead. I do it because I want to protest. At the end of it, I am so happy because I think I have been able to provide enough solace to the family members of the dead, who will vote for me to bring me to power in the next elections.
When the police force their way into the Golden Temple or a Masjid in Kashmir, we call it the win of the good forces in their fight against terrorism. How would one justify that a large area was not allowing police forces to come in? Do you think it is mass movement? It is not. It is at the instigation of certain power hungry politicians that 14 innocent lives were lost. To garner support, kids were slapped and brought out of classrooms to join the agitation. Whatever may be the cause, I can and shall never support such act.
Both the parties call this a battle for survival. I do not own a plot in Singur. My cousing owns a shop in downtown Kolkata. If he is faced with the same problem, what would he look forward to? What happens when his 3 children will have their own families? Will they be able to earn their livelihood from the same shop? What would be his best solution? Isn't it that he should ensure that he gets the maximum benefit out of this change of hands, if someone is trying to take over his shop? Earning compensation to the n? How can he get that? If he throws stones at the grabber, is there a guarantee the person on the other side is not going to retaliate?
No major problem in this world have been solved by power. Any good solution one can think about any problem has been arrived through negotiations. Tell me of a problem solved through force - I am sure you can't name any. If that was the case, the British would have been ruling India even now.
The only way to a solution, even in these cases, is to negotiate a deal where nobody is left aside - ensure that everyone is getting enough compensation and that compensation can be used in the long term to provide excellent support to the people who are losing their properties. This can be achieved only through negotiation and yes, through real politics. Our leaders will need to become real politicians now. If you have the will to support people, people's support will come to you automatically.
The biggest shame is, in this state which prides itself with being the motherland of so many eminent people, today I cannot see a single person who has the will.
I feel really sad to see that there is not a single politician who is eager to solve the present problem in Singur, Baruipur or Nandigram. We are losing lives and people are talking about land?
Lord Buddha is adamant to the core, Airborne protective, Priyo ignorant, Patriarch repentant, Goodbrata lathi weilding, Italy anxious, Hindus pretensious, So men unseen & unheard, Bloc(k) calls this as unfortunate...and didi is on oxygen. The Guv is unhappy. The 'buddhi jibi's are ashamed, angry. Everyone has a point to prove. Everyone has a viewpoint. Everybody says they are with the people. We are being presented with a bright future by all and sundry - we are being shown the dream of either a green revolution or an industrial revolution. That, when people are losing their near ones as in an epidemic. We are doing it all at the expense of lives.
Nobody thinks about what we, the common masses, feel about this. If not allowing the administration to enter into my territory is my birthright, what wrong did those goons do who gunned down Vinod Mehta, the SP? If police killing people just because they wanted to save their lives is good enough an excuse, why do we regret Tienanmen? Who is at fault? Or, is it the right time to do fault finding? Haven't we lost enough already? And then, we continue these protests. If nothing, then a Bandh call.
I remember a story I heard about a person who went mad. His only madness was to break window glasses. He was treated at a sanitorium for a certain period of time and the doctors were sure he has recovered fully. When he was asked what he would do on his return, he said he would first look for a beautiful wife, take her on a honemoon trip, have a romantic evening sipping coffee together, have a nice dinner, go to bed, undress himself, undress his wife and...
.
use the elastic of the bra straps to create a nice stone thrower (a 'gulti' in Bangla) so that he can more easily and accurately shatter the glasses of the neighbouring buildings' windows.
A Bandh call is like that glass breaking passion of the mad man. Anything and everything that comes our way, the top priority will be to call a bandh.
If staying at home and enjoying a nice time with the family is what we call as protest, give me a chance and I know there are so many things in this world to protest about. I burn a few buses, and tomorrow my nephew gets into a more crowded bus to college. I stop people from going anywhere. I ensure patients die in ambulances, I ensure bereaved family members do not get a chance to even have a last view of the dead. I do it because I want to protest. At the end of it, I am so happy because I think I have been able to provide enough solace to the family members of the dead, who will vote for me to bring me to power in the next elections.
When the police force their way into the Golden Temple or a Masjid in Kashmir, we call it the win of the good forces in their fight against terrorism. How would one justify that a large area was not allowing police forces to come in? Do you think it is mass movement? It is not. It is at the instigation of certain power hungry politicians that 14 innocent lives were lost. To garner support, kids were slapped and brought out of classrooms to join the agitation. Whatever may be the cause, I can and shall never support such act.
Both the parties call this a battle for survival. I do not own a plot in Singur. My cousing owns a shop in downtown Kolkata. If he is faced with the same problem, what would he look forward to? What happens when his 3 children will have their own families? Will they be able to earn their livelihood from the same shop? What would be his best solution? Isn't it that he should ensure that he gets the maximum benefit out of this change of hands, if someone is trying to take over his shop? Earning compensation to the n? How can he get that? If he throws stones at the grabber, is there a guarantee the person on the other side is not going to retaliate?
No major problem in this world have been solved by power. Any good solution one can think about any problem has been arrived through negotiations. Tell me of a problem solved through force - I am sure you can't name any. If that was the case, the British would have been ruling India even now.
The only way to a solution, even in these cases, is to negotiate a deal where nobody is left aside - ensure that everyone is getting enough compensation and that compensation can be used in the long term to provide excellent support to the people who are losing their properties. This can be achieved only through negotiation and yes, through real politics. Our leaders will need to become real politicians now. If you have the will to support people, people's support will come to you automatically.
The biggest shame is, in this state which prides itself with being the motherland of so many eminent people, today I cannot see a single person who has the will.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
To post process or not to...
To post process or not to...
'The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind'
I Started a debate on the KPC forum with the subject line – to post process or not to – where, overwhelmingly, more than 30 people responded on a single day. Most of the people were for PP, while some were against. However, many people who were for PP, still felt there was a degree of uncertainty on the level of PP they should do. For people who were against PP, they were vigorously against it. They have expressed that those who do PP are not really photographers – they are more of studio graphic artistes.
Though my main question was to PP or not to, I have, time and again, asked questions like - do you think PP is integral to photography? If not, why? If you think PP is manipulation, why in camera manipulations are allowed? Why do you think changing color hues in camera is treated as 'understanding of the camera' while doing so in Photoshop or in the lab using chemicals is 'manipulation'?
I think this stiff resistance comes due to many reasons:
1. Insufficient knowledge about the technologies that photography as a art form has passed through.
2. PP in PS is quick and gives dramatic improvements at times with exposure, color balance etc, which forces many of us to believe that so much of improvement with so little effort is not worth it and we call it manipulation.
3. Insufficient knowledge about the photo processing lab and other printing processes.
4. Coming straight into the digital medium and not used to prints except for automatic QSS lab prints in post card sizes – we often tend to look at photos in computer monitors and judge them.
5. Trying to criticize photos being oblivious of the primary elements of a photo, none of which has any relation to or can be introduced using PP - these are form, lines, enigma, characteristics, color contrast and light... and trying to evaluate photos by exposure, shutter speed, saturation level, sharpness, DOF (or the lack of it - I have seen many comments where a shallow depth of field has been commented as 'good DOF'
) etc.
Here are some facts:
History – Post-processing exists from the very day cameras were invented - the very reason being, conversion from negative to positive needed corrections.
PS is quick - yes PS is, it is indeed a good tool to have. But mess with it and see the results. One may be very happy with the color saturation and the contrast, but when it comes to critical review, none of these will be considered.
Prints and monitors - we are these days more used to see photos on computer screens. However, a monitor never was, and never will be, an authentic medium for viewing a photo. Prints are, because they present the same level of contrast, brightness, hue to all the viewers.
A printing process is what we call as post processing. You can do it in the lab, and you can also use PS as a tool there, to reduce the time that you would have spent on a single photo. Otherwise, trust me, anything that is done in PS is possible, and done too, in the lab, using chemicals and lights (yes, you can do cloning too!). On a monitor, all we see is a ‘preview’ what the print will more or less look like. In the future, monitors will rule, but then for them to be treated as authentic mediums, some settings will definitely come into the fore for photograph viewing.
Elements - Last and most important point - the quality of a photo is not determined by the contrast levels or the color saturation it has. If your photo has skies bluer and roses redder than your friends' photos, your photo will not be treated at a higher level that theirs by an knowledgeable and informed viewer. The original elements of a photo are form, light (not exposure), lines, enigma (energy of the moment), characteristics and perspective.
Can you alter these in PS?
Yes, you can. And you can do so in the lab as well, without using PS. You should call it Photo-art in that case.You CANNOT create a good final print out of an original take which was poor in the elementary items mentioned in the previous paragraph. If you are altering those, you are into photoart big time.
Many were asking a question about what then is the difference between a painting and a photograph (non-photo-art)?
To me, the core difference between a painting and a photo are - while the painter has a white canvas to start with and creates the basic elements (which are common to a photograph as well as a painting), a photographer needs to find/arrange the basic elements in the surroundings around him (pre-process), capture them on frame (shoot), and then post process (to rectify technical problems with the medium, not the basic elements). That is the final product, which is called as a 'Photo' 'graph'.
PS: Many may not like to follow what respected Mr Ansel Adams followed and may not believe what he did was correct and sacrosanct (not my view though), but for those who indeed believe him to be a great photographer of all times, let us indulge into a bit of history and check whether he did PP with his photos and what he had to say about PP. Or, if we can get some comments from our all time great Mr Raghu Rai. Unless, you yourself are as known a name as them.
'The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind'
I Started a debate on the KPC forum with the subject line – to post process or not to – where, overwhelmingly, more than 30 people responded on a single day. Most of the people were for PP, while some were against. However, many people who were for PP, still felt there was a degree of uncertainty on the level of PP they should do. For people who were against PP, they were vigorously against it. They have expressed that those who do PP are not really photographers – they are more of studio graphic artistes.
Though my main question was to PP or not to, I have, time and again, asked questions like - do you think PP is integral to photography? If not, why? If you think PP is manipulation, why in camera manipulations are allowed? Why do you think changing color hues in camera is treated as 'understanding of the camera' while doing so in Photoshop or in the lab using chemicals is 'manipulation'?
I think this stiff resistance comes due to many reasons:
1. Insufficient knowledge about the technologies that photography as a art form has passed through.
2. PP in PS is quick and gives dramatic improvements at times with exposure, color balance etc, which forces many of us to believe that so much of improvement with so little effort is not worth it and we call it manipulation.
3. Insufficient knowledge about the photo processing lab and other printing processes.
4. Coming straight into the digital medium and not used to prints except for automatic QSS lab prints in post card sizes – we often tend to look at photos in computer monitors and judge them.
5. Trying to criticize photos being oblivious of the primary elements of a photo, none of which has any relation to or can be introduced using PP - these are form, lines, enigma, characteristics, color contrast and light... and trying to evaluate photos by exposure, shutter speed, saturation level, sharpness, DOF (or the lack of it - I have seen many comments where a shallow depth of field has been commented as 'good DOF'
) etc.Here are some facts:
History – Post-processing exists from the very day cameras were invented - the very reason being, conversion from negative to positive needed corrections.
PS is quick - yes PS is, it is indeed a good tool to have. But mess with it and see the results. One may be very happy with the color saturation and the contrast, but when it comes to critical review, none of these will be considered.
Prints and monitors - we are these days more used to see photos on computer screens. However, a monitor never was, and never will be, an authentic medium for viewing a photo. Prints are, because they present the same level of contrast, brightness, hue to all the viewers.
A printing process is what we call as post processing. You can do it in the lab, and you can also use PS as a tool there, to reduce the time that you would have spent on a single photo. Otherwise, trust me, anything that is done in PS is possible, and done too, in the lab, using chemicals and lights (yes, you can do cloning too!). On a monitor, all we see is a ‘preview’ what the print will more or less look like. In the future, monitors will rule, but then for them to be treated as authentic mediums, some settings will definitely come into the fore for photograph viewing.
Elements - Last and most important point - the quality of a photo is not determined by the contrast levels or the color saturation it has. If your photo has skies bluer and roses redder than your friends' photos, your photo will not be treated at a higher level that theirs by an knowledgeable and informed viewer. The original elements of a photo are form, light (not exposure), lines, enigma (energy of the moment), characteristics and perspective.
Can you alter these in PS?
Yes, you can. And you can do so in the lab as well, without using PS. You should call it Photo-art in that case.You CANNOT create a good final print out of an original take which was poor in the elementary items mentioned in the previous paragraph. If you are altering those, you are into photoart big time.
Many were asking a question about what then is the difference between a painting and a photograph (non-photo-art)?
To me, the core difference between a painting and a photo are - while the painter has a white canvas to start with and creates the basic elements (which are common to a photograph as well as a painting), a photographer needs to find/arrange the basic elements in the surroundings around him (pre-process), capture them on frame (shoot), and then post process (to rectify technical problems with the medium, not the basic elements). That is the final product, which is called as a 'Photo' 'graph'.
PS: Many may not like to follow what respected Mr Ansel Adams followed and may not believe what he did was correct and sacrosanct (not my view though), but for those who indeed believe him to be a great photographer of all times, let us indulge into a bit of history and check whether he did PP with his photos and what he had to say about PP. Or, if we can get some comments from our all time great Mr Raghu Rai. Unless, you yourself are as known a name as them.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Choice of color
Choice of color
Many of my fellow photographers (and seniors and juniors) are in to this debate of when we should chose BW and when we go for color. I was having a discussion on this with my friend Abhra on this subject and I thought of putting up my methodology of selecting Color over BW and vice versa in this blog.
The obvious choicesColor over BW:Below are two sample photos taken by me:
The choice is color, quite obviously. What I wanted to capture in these abstracts were the colors and the paintbrush effect the flowing water creates on the multi colored stones, which have stronger color than form. I actually probably do not need to give any explanations here - the BW snap tells it all.
BW over color
The below image is made-to-order for BW. Put any color here, and the message will be lost. The color is hidden in the twinkle of the eyes of the people here - despite their hardships, they also do have their enjoyment, on things which are apparently too silly for upstyle people.
Difficult choices
Those photos where choice is difficult:
(These photos are from Abhra Aich's Usefilm portfolio who is also a close friend of mine - I have taken the liberty of keeping his nphotos here for the time being with his permission)
First, the color version. What have we tried to photograph here? Is it a farmer, walking barefooted, with a cycle to accompany, and with a sack filled with grasses? or is it the green trees, with a road in front of them, which has a with a sack over a cycle, which a man (who is a farmer) is pushing? I guess it is definitely the first one.
Does the green background do any favor to the photo? I do not think so. Does the bright yellow sack sends a message to the viewer? Nothing special. So what are we looking at? Isnt it, despite all the hard work of the photographer, just a snapshot on the first look and the viewer has to take the pain to discover what the photographer wanted to emphasize on? I am sure when hundreds of photos are viewed together, this photo will be kind of ignored, depite having all the elements of an excellent photograph and despite Abhra's sincere efforts.
That gives us to think, how we can make it look much better. Abhra tried the following:
Step 1 - are the colors serving any purpose? We are pretty sure by now that they aren't. So let us get rid of it first.
Step 2 - The green BG, due to its intensity level on the rainbow, appears rather dark now. How about some dodging?
Step 3 - it still looks distracting, much more than it was in color. Ok, a blurred BG might help here. The camera had its limitations with aperture, so we do the separation in post processing.
Step 4 - The stark reality of the farmer toiling would come up more when the photos are contrasty and there is lesser scope for dreamy imagination. let us do a curve.
Step 5 -Aha, it looks better now. However, something is still missing. The mood. The hat is old fashioned, medieval style, was used quite a lot in china before the revolution, so that remote east look is associated with it. Also, these hats were more used in old times in India. Old times generally carry a good feeling in mind, a warmish feeling. How about sepia? Sepia is warm, sepia has the retro look and sepia catches attention instantly. Here is the final result:
Photos that could have gone either way: (these are my photos):
If you want to use my photos for non-commercial purposes, please feel free to use them. However, please write to me at bijitbose@gmail.com (it feels good to know someone is so impressed by my photos that he/she is using it) and please keep a note prominently at the place of use that these photos are credited to me. For Abhra's photos, please talk to him directly at abhra.aich@gmail.com. For commercial use, please ensure you get a specific written permission from me before you use them (I am not too bad at legal matters) for you to be able to save yourself from spending more than you saved by using this photo.
Write to bijitbose@gmail.com
Many of my fellow photographers (and seniors and juniors) are in to this debate of when we should chose BW and when we go for color. I was having a discussion on this with my friend Abhra on this subject and I thought of putting up my methodology of selecting Color over BW and vice versa in this blog.
The obvious choicesColor over BW:Below are two sample photos taken by me:
The choice is color, quite obviously. What I wanted to capture in these abstracts were the colors and the paintbrush effect the flowing water creates on the multi colored stones, which have stronger color than form. I actually probably do not need to give any explanations here - the BW snap tells it all.
BW over color
The below image is made-to-order for BW. Put any color here, and the message will be lost. The color is hidden in the twinkle of the eyes of the people here - despite their hardships, they also do have their enjoyment, on things which are apparently too silly for upstyle people.
Difficult choices
Those photos where choice is difficult:
(These photos are from Abhra Aich's Usefilm portfolio who is also a close friend of mine - I have taken the liberty of keeping his nphotos here for the time being with his permission)
First, the color version. What have we tried to photograph here? Is it a farmer, walking barefooted, with a cycle to accompany, and with a sack filled with grasses? or is it the green trees, with a road in front of them, which has a with a sack over a cycle, which a man (who is a farmer) is pushing? I guess it is definitely the first one.
Does the green background do any favor to the photo? I do not think so. Does the bright yellow sack sends a message to the viewer? Nothing special. So what are we looking at? Isnt it, despite all the hard work of the photographer, just a snapshot on the first look and the viewer has to take the pain to discover what the photographer wanted to emphasize on? I am sure when hundreds of photos are viewed together, this photo will be kind of ignored, depite having all the elements of an excellent photograph and despite Abhra's sincere efforts.
That gives us to think, how we can make it look much better. Abhra tried the following:
Step 1 - are the colors serving any purpose? We are pretty sure by now that they aren't. So let us get rid of it first.
Step 2 - The green BG, due to its intensity level on the rainbow, appears rather dark now. How about some dodging?
Step 3 - it still looks distracting, much more than it was in color. Ok, a blurred BG might help here. The camera had its limitations with aperture, so we do the separation in post processing.
Step 4 - The stark reality of the farmer toiling would come up more when the photos are contrasty and there is lesser scope for dreamy imagination. let us do a curve.
Step 5 -Aha, it looks better now. However, something is still missing. The mood. The hat is old fashioned, medieval style, was used quite a lot in china before the revolution, so that remote east look is associated with it. Also, these hats were more used in old times in India. Old times generally carry a good feeling in mind, a warmish feeling. How about sepia? Sepia is warm, sepia has the retro look and sepia catches attention instantly. Here is the final result:
Photos that could have gone either way: (these are my photos):
If you want to use my photos for non-commercial purposes, please feel free to use them. However, please write to me at bijitbose@gmail.com (it feels good to know someone is so impressed by my photos that he/she is using it) and please keep a note prominently at the place of use that these photos are credited to me. For Abhra's photos, please talk to him directly at abhra.aich@gmail.com. For commercial use, please ensure you get a specific written permission from me before you use them (I am not too bad at legal matters) for you to be able to save yourself from spending more than you saved by using this photo.
Write to bijitbose@gmail.com
Piracy/Plagarism/Stealing...
Piracy/Plagarism/Stealing...
Photo courtesy www.worth1000.com
I came across a post by Debdut on the Kolkata Photographers Club community on orkut.com
..to Pirate or not to Pirate ?not so fotografic , yet an ethical question related to our hobby .do you believe in copy-righting your work ?if yes , do you respect copyright , ..to be specific did you 'buy' that piece of photoshop you use or downloaded ur 'mp3' from paid site?s'd copyright be equally applicable to software , books , songs and photos ?w'd be interesting to know peoples point of view .. if they agree to share personally : i support open-source ( b'coz i cant afford to pay ) , no copyrights ( b'coz no-one w'd care to steal mine )
On the examples that Devdut have put up there, I felt each of those services are different in their own right:
PS is a tool, helps me process a photo to make it more 'viewable'.
A song is just a pleasure thing for my ears.
A photo is a visual treat.
In all the cases, however, there are two types of uses - I use it to create something which is for private sharing, and I use it for public sharing and then mint money out of it.
Piracy, that way, to me, is too vague a word. When I play a song on my HT, my neighbour listens it for free. Nobody, including the singer himself/herself, would treat this as piracy. When the same song is played in a Kalipuja pandal, do we ever think of it as privacy? When a hotel plays it, the producer cries 'piracy'.
When Rabindranath Tagore used a Irish tune for his 'Aji Subhodine' - we called it 'adaptation'. When Nadeem-Shravan uses them, we call it 'sur churi'.
Why do we say so? Because Tagore recognised it to be based on an Irish tune, Nadeen didn't. Also because Rabindranath did it for his own pleasure and pleasure of his close ones, Nadeem did it to mint money. Many may agree, many may not for arguments sake - but those who do not agree ask your inner self - this is what you will get as an answer. If one is using something for private sharing, we do not tend to call it piracy. We do, however, call it piracy if the user suppresses the information of the original.
For 'borrowed' stuff, in certain cases, even though willing, we do not pay for use, because of the high price set for something which is not proportionate to the amount of effort given. To me as a consumer, a singer singing a nice song vis-a-vis a masseur giving me a nice massage requires equal effort (one physical, one vocal). However, the singer uses technology to record his/her songs and charges for every device on which it is played back. Can the masseur do it? A good singer is a gift to the society. But is it so that the singer actually 'deserves' so much money for one effort? Is the effort that high?
The perspective from the opposite side:
As a seller of services, what do I get if everyone feels like what I felt in the previous paragraph? Ok, many people will not pay, but some will. And I will not allow people to mint money from my creations. So if a person creates copies of my song and SELLS them, I will be after him as I believe I need to have my share of that money. If he sells a CD for Rs 20, I will be happy with Rs 10 for 200 songs of mine, but I will not let it go free. For an individual, however, who shares my music for pleasure, I will not really mind, as long as he likes my songs and recognises them publicly to be mine. The price I get here is publicity, which can be translated to money at a later date.Same for my photos. i will really be angry if someone takes credit or gets paid for my photos, without sharing anything with me. Otherwise, I am happy if he uses my photos on his desktop, and when a passer by asks him 'where did you get this from?' - he says this has been shot by Bijit Bose.
Finally, why I still do not upload large photos taken by me and do not intend to do so in the future? Because I do not have control over whether they are used by their admirers for pleasure, or by some website building company/ ad agency for commercial use. I call the second one as blatant piracy, and I'm dead against it.
To me, Bobby's action (Bobby is a KPC member on orkut who has taken fellow members' photos and put them in his own album) is not piracy. It is plagarism. Plagarism is not considered as plagarism when the basic recognition comes from the borrower. If my photos were taken, I would have expected Bobby to announce somewhere explicitly that these were my photos and he is keeping them in his album as a recognition to my work.
All this is just me, and me alone.........
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