{"id":104372,"date":"2018-07-14T22:44:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T05:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=104372"},"modified":"2018-07-14T22:49:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T05:49:09","slug":"please-steal-my-photos-opensource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/14\/please-steal-my-photos-opensource\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Steal my Photos! #opensource"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why do I keep all my photos open source, and free for you to download and “steal”?<\/p>\n

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Well, many different reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. I think an open information society benefits everyone.<\/li>\n
  2. Ethically, I pirated a lot of stuff when I was young and poor, and it empowered me. Now I don’t want to restrict access to others who might benefit from my information or knowledge. <\/li>\n
  3. A selfish benefit: the more open and free my photos, the more they will spread virally, which will ultimately benefit me as an entrepreneur. Open source in photography also makes cents from a business aspect<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  4. It’s easier for me to access my own photos: I upload all my photos full resolution to this blog (which I encourage you to download), and I often include ZIP download links to all the JPEG photos of mine (see my downloads<\/a> page). This allows me to easily access my own photos, assuming my hard drives crashed or I’m having syncing issues on the cloud, or if I’m using someone else’s devices and I want to look at my own photos. <\/li>\n
  5. I want to make a statement: To me, putting watermarks on your photos are lame. With smartphones it’s so easy to screenshot photos and even upres (increase the resolution of) them, and print them out. To me it makes no sense to fight against this technological trend; better to figure out ways as can benefit and profit from this shift!<\/li>\n
  6. In a selfish way, I get more joy knowing that more people have access to my photos and can look at them! Therefore the more open and free I keep my photos, the more people can enjoy them! <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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