Reference photos of birds

Trine, interesting idea. It turns out that I might have a photo of a bird or two :) . I'll try to dig some up and post them to the group. BTW: do we photographers get to see the creations that our creations inspired?

The polite thing to do is 1. put a comment on the work that it is inspired by a photo taken by ....

In addition it would be lovely if people posted the WIP or the finished sketch, drawing, study or painting here for people to see both the reference and the results after use.

Trine

editing all the bird photos i have would take forever you should also post this to your group so that people can give their ok for others to paint, sketch their older photos.

you should also send this to Feathers the only restrictions i have on my photos are no digital artists. Just taking someone photo and editing it in photo shopor other computer aided program is not a good thing unless someone sends me an email and i give the ok.

oh and i agree with Tony i want to see what it created :) its a ego thing LOL. Just the idea that someone would want to paint or sketch something i photographed would be inspiring to anyone

I totally agree - All my photos are freee for others to use for "manual art" but the digital or photo version is mine.

Of course, in this digital world none of us can totally control what happens with anything we post online. So it is basically up to people's decency. Finding good bird photos to study which isn't in a book (copyright naturally) or on a copyrighted site is sometimes hard. Of course a cardinal is a cardinal but even so I for one do prefer to use several photos when I can and have an approved use.

Being allowed to use somebody's photos is a favour whihc should be returned by a comment and7or a link to that persons site or photos. And as you say postedso that that person sees the result. of course sometimes one uses 20 cardinal images to study anatomy from different posiitons. Then on can not credit every one of the 20 individuals separately. I do hope people will find the reference group and that a beutiful relationship between nature lovers in photo and in painting/drawing can florish. Trine

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Thx,... for sharing.

Good idea, I'll see what I kind find to contribute.

With spring comming, I think I can dig up a few photos.

Love birds!!! Thanks so much for sharing this article....

Great idea, Trine!