Hi Glen & interesting topic.
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Originally Posted by glend
I would like to know how the imagers, and other members of IIS, feel about 'for hire' operations, or 'data buy services' appearing and being used in what is supposed to be an amateur forum.
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It's either your image or it isn't. If you want it to genuinely be, "your image" you need to have imaged it, be it with your own, borrowed or hired equipment or facilities.
To me, buying data (images) would be the equivalent of copying an Ansel Adams photograph and editing it, cropping it, whatever, and calling it your own and then having the front to enter it in to a Landscape photography competition. Imagine if someone did that with an astrophotograph taken by someone else. Well that's what buying data, i.e: images, really is. Even
IF there is attribution of the source, it's just standing on the shoulders of others.
In any event, you will miss, where it's possible, a valuable connection with nature and time with friends outdoors.
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Originally Posted by glend
Personally if i paid for data and just processed it i would feel like i was mis-representing my work.
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I'd have to agree.
Best
JA
