Lola is now Alta Tollhaus Hazel, CGC!
She passed her test yesterday. She did awesome and was even the youngest in the class. I wish I had pictures or video of the test, but I don’t. Hopefully, this adorable picture of her I took the other day will do 🙂
I can’t wait to do more training with her. She’s so smart and seems to really enjoy it.
What a beautiful doll! And a wonderful example of a GSD! Congratulations!
Congratulations to you and Lola!
Oh look at that face-she knew she was going to rock it
Thanks everyone! She’s such an awesome dog. I was more nervous than she was!
Super job! Congratulations, you little beauty.
Congratulations, what a darling girl.
Congratulations! She is so adorable!
Way to go Stephanie! You are an inspiration to me.
She is gorgeous. Another awesome photographer on the blog. You all need to put up tips for the rest of us.
Now I’m sitting waiting in a drs office today and decided to look at Instagram – something I only do occasionally checking up on my kids. Looked at #germanshepherd and there was your picture of Lola – one Julie has posted on FB of her – close up with pink collar green tag showing! But pretty sure your name credit was gone.
From now on Stephanie will only be sharing her pix with her signature on them. 🙂
I have to remember that myself, always interesting and amusing to see my pictures of my puppies on another breeders web site and recently a head shot I took on a professional photographers Facebook page as one of their pictures. Explain to me, why is it when you call them out on their fraud, I mean mistake, instead of being apologetic or embarrassed, they get hostile and attack you?
I did have my watermark on it, but it was too easy to crop out. With client photos I make it a little difficult to crop because then they wouldn’t by the image. I don’t think to do that with my dog or kids photos.
I see a lot where photographers get pretty hostile after they have stolen an image. There’s always an excuse too. Hardly ever an apology unless it gets too much attention from other photographers. I’ve seen other images uses on photographers websites with another photographer logo on it. lol. People aren’t too smart these days. sad 🙁
I need someone to explain twitter and instagram to me.
I don’t have either. I was on instagram yesterday checking out Lola, and it looked cool. Twitter just confuses me.
The company I used to work for did the electrical at the new Ikea store in Orlando and we put a cool nighttime pic of it on our website. We had got the image from maybe the general contractor we worked for (?) don’t exactly remember. We always had pictures of our projects. Nobody thought anything about it – no branding on it or anything. We got a letter from an attorney with scary language about very high fines for copyright enfringement and an offer to settle for a pretty nice sum, but far less than potential amounts they were quoting as possible. We paid and pulled it. 🙁 I saw something recently – I guess you can get in trouble with this if somene wanted to pursue. Passing your dogs as theirs and copping an attitude when confronted would make me want to go after them.
wow
Twitter is like Facebook statuses on steroids. It’s great for voicing spur of the moment short thoughts (hence the 140 character limit).
Instagram is similar to Twitter except for pictures. Doesn’t have to be perfect or pretty, just some place to show off easy-to-share pictures.
Unfortunately, I see this happen all the time. Not just with my images but with photographer friends as well. It’s usually someone claiming it as their own. I knew I could have made my watermark more prominent. Next time will. Thanks for letting me know!
Because relentless harassment from Carole I have made an effort to put signatures on my photos but yep, they are so easy to remove, especially because I do not want them to interfere with the image.
If someone is going to steal one of our images, let them work for it. Sign your photos!
Have you ever watched Jimmy Fallon? He writes “Thank You” notes. It would go something like this:
Thank you, xxxxxx German Shepherds for using photos of Alta-Tollhaus dogs in place of your own. We agree with you—Alta-Tollhaus dogs are gorgeous.
Thank you, xxxxxx for going to the effort to remove my watermark and claiming my photo as your own. Contact me if you’d like some lessons in photography.
Post the original signed image back on Facebook or wherever and include your Thank You note.
I have a signature layer that I add to all my photos. While I tend to keep it in a place that can’t be cropped out, I make it transparent enough that it’s a little difficult to notice. If it’s not obvious, it’s less likely to be cropped or photoshopped out, but it’s something that I know is there if it’s necessary for me to prove proof that it’s my image. EXIF data helps too.
Here’s a good technique on how I’m managed photo stealing issues (short version: send a cease-and-desist/invoice for use)
http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-handle-image-theft-peacefully
Congrats to you and Lola! She is too cute!