Marc Whitelaw, bottom turn at The Wedge (Plett)
Mike Dei-Cont photo

posted by dcmike on Wednesday, 1 August 2007

Muggy tucks into a late morning breakfast

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	Rashieq Smith 6th August 2007 11:14
	yeah there is a "disable right click option" and even the option like Spy sez of adding a watermark to the pixs u upload, there are plenty a booga that do it on this site.... but yeah ur opnion is respected.

	James Moolenschot 6th August 2007 09:53
	Besides Spy's soap boxing; isn't there a 'disable right click' option to prevent copying when posting photos?

	Pierre Marqua 4th August 2007 12:50
	I hear you Mike. But when you use the net to get exposure for yourself as a photographer, you kinda gotta expect it. Sad but true. End of the day you are shooting digital, the set up costs are huge, i agree, but the actual production costs are time and effort. End of the day, you shoot so many photos, leave the best ones for the print industry side of things. Rather place a watermark or logo over the image, that way you as a brand is exposed over and over again. You must notice that okes like Doug, Caleb, Alan etc never post their photos on 60/40 or wavescape, or magicseaweed, etc etc. The difference lies to me is when you differentiate between a site using your images for profit (like in advertising their surf tours, or back packers or adventure holidays) or a community based site based on profiles, stoke, joy, sharing, etc. But reality, digital gives you loads of left overs, brand them, put them up and give back from which you take. In saying that, i know it could be hypocticial of me, cos i dont shoot surfing that much anymore (time, finacial cost, no reward and other responsibilitys in life have steered me in a new direction, also i want to be in the water surfing, cos i dont get much time to do that anymore) But i will always love shooting bodyboarding, surfing, mtnbiking, wake boarding, snowboarding, hell anything that gets the blood flowing. And one day, when i have a nice digital rig, and i say goodbye to the velvia and the provia, and i have the shots i deem worth of sending to a print publication, then i use the overflow, i will return it to the source, and in this case the source is the online bottletop, teabag, eskilid, booger, speedbump community of south africa. Cos in reality and only up until recently, there wasnt much in the way of a magazine that used more than 1 or 2 photogs in this country. Heck there wasnt even a booger mag, the community survived in the dark days with 60/40, chappy pix and Spy Dude Productions. Those sites pulled the stoke through its darkest time (media wise) anyways nuff said purly my opinion. peace. and thats my 6 pence.

	Gareth White 3rd August 2007 18:11
	Well said Mike...nice shot by the way.

	Rashieq Smith 3rd August 2007 17:44
	orr , oke i catch ur drift :)

	Mike Dei-Cont 3rd August 2007 17:14
	Yeah, I know - lank people have asked about that. Well... first off, I got pretty frustrated with okes just shamelessly using my pics. I give them away sure, but you do see me going through the effort of identifying the riders, the spot, the date - basically I put in a whole lot of time and energy into it and then I see my shots on magicseaweed or myspace or facebook without so much as a thank you I feel disillusioned... make sense? The other is off course that you're looking at a piece of flyshit on the internet... In reality this image is a double page spread magazine quality so if you were at all tempted to call me up and buy it from me you have an idea of how big it is - pretty neat huh! Anyhow, no hard feelings. Peeps that grow up in the digital age automatically assume that anything on the net is free when in reality it still belongs to the guy who wrote it, sang it, drew it, photographed it, designed it, whatever. So there ya have it ;-)

	Rashieq Smith 3rd August 2007 11:36
	mike what's the centre fold in this pic? :?