Lifestyle Images: February 2008

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

A Great New Product Line for Seniors!

Lifestyle Images is now offering a great new line of cards for high school seniors, designed by Leah at LCH Design. These collections include 24 two-sided 5x7 cards on heavy textured art paper and 50 coordinating two-sided contact cards. The contact cards can contain your all your contact info, including your MySpace page or Blog. The 5x7 cards can be used as invitations to a graduation Open House or party, or just as an announcement. Each design includes images from your senior portrait session. These gorgeous designs are sure to make an impression!

Monday, February 04, 2008

Announcing a Special Offer...

Break out of those winter doldrums!
There's no need to wait for the trees and flowers
to bloom for outdoor portraits.

Join me downtown before the end of May 2008
for something fresh and fun--Urban Sessions!

$600 Session includes:
Creative Fee ($125 value)
Styling Consultation
1-16x20 Gallery Wrap canvas
2-8x10 Desk Portraits
4-5x7 Gift Portraits
16 Wallet Prints
That's a savings of $240 off regular prices!
Plus, receive 15% off any additional prints.
Price does not include sales tax.

Call or email now for your appointment!

Saturday, February 02, 2008

Little Henry...

I just had to share some more from Henry's session...he was so enjoyable to work with! Thanks for sharing your little guy with me for a couple of hours, Stacey!

Friday, February 01, 2008

Got my baby fix today...

I had the pleasure of photographing the sweetest little guy this morning! His name is Henry, and he is five months old. Isn't he a cutie-pie?

A Note To All Blog Viewers

Please remember that all content and images on this blog belong to me, and are protected by U.S. Copyright Laws. It is illegal to copy, save, print, or reproduce in anyway without my express written permission. To do so is theft. Please, don't.

Why Are Professional Photographs Watermarked?
by Cristy Nielsen & Yolanda Rowe

As parents, we do everything we can to protect our children. We teach them to look both ways before crossing the street and many other ways to be safe. Photographers have the same responsibility to their work. Each photograph is important--not just because they are our livelihood but because they are portraits of special people: our clients. To protect our work and our clients, we watermark every image that appears online. We hope to discourage unethical people who steal from photographers by copying and using images for their purposes without authorization or compensating the copyright owner and subjects.

For example, let's say your photographer posts preview images on a social networking site such as Facebook or Myspace. These photos are intended to show the client a preview of what their session images will look like. If they are not watermarked they cannot be identified back to the photographer who created the image and they could be stolen by a third party and used without permission. This has happened on numerous occasions by companies who will use photographs for their marketing campaigns and then photographers or their clients have found their images and photos on the sides of buses, on billboards, etc. Imagine finding a photo of you or your child on a flyer or website for some random company when you didn't give permission for it to be used in that way and you will begin to understand why photographers watermark to protect their work.

Federal law is very clear on the copyright of images. The creator of the image (the photographer) is the owner of those rights. A client pays the photographer to take those images, but it does not give them ownership (rights) to what is created. Even if the client purchases a file or print it does not give the client copyright to the image. They are given a license to do certain things. This is called a Usage License and it is illegal to scan or copy it and use it in any way other than which it was intended: displaying the print itself. Even purchasing prints does not give the client copyright to the image and it is illegal to alter, scan, or copy it and use it in a way other than its intent. Copyright is held by the image creator for 70 years by law and infringement is punishable by up to $150,000 in fines PER image.

While it may seem like no big deal to make additional copies of an image, or crop out watermarks in web versions of photos, truly it is a big deal. A photographer works very hard on their images, and this is their livelihood, source of income and how they feed their family. When you copy and scan images you are taking part of the income that they depend on to stay in business and serve their clients in the first place. Watermarking is a necessary evil to protect photographers, to protect their work and their job security. As Yolanda says "Copyright is like your vehicle. You can give someone the keys to drive it (granting permission to a client) but it doesn't make them the owner of the vehicle."
For more information on copyright please visit

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

A Great New Product Line for Seniors!

Monday, February 04, 2008

Announcing a Special Offer...

Saturday, February 02, 2008

Little Henry...

Friday, February 01, 2008

Got my baby fix today...

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