Real wiring pictures ?

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ritelec

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Hello all.

After years of putting off make a web sight I decided to make one

Like everything else it's turning into s learning process.

I figured I would just get pics fin the internet of wiring but then rethought it and decide not to infringe on possible copy writes or what ever else might be out there.

In going through picture libraries. Most all wiring seems to be cord European blues and Browns. Male and female models High tension ??? Pictures that aren't quite what I'm looking for.
I'm looking for decent rx house wiring. Panel. Knob and tube. Fuse box.

Anyone have experience on where to get good shots in a real life application ??

Just throughing it out there. Thanks for the help
 
One thing to watch out for is the picture having an embedded link in it. Anyone clicking on it takes them to the parent site.

Someone used a picture from my site in an Ebay advert, I was inundated with hits due to the embedded link. Ebay took the advert down and banned the seller.
 
electrofelon said:
Don't want to use your work because it's too sloppy??? :lol:
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Funny !!!!!!!!!!!! :- )

Actually I don't take pictures of my work............ never did.

thinking about visiting older jobs and asking but.... doesn't sound appropriate ??

maybe I could ??
 
Tony S said:
One thing to watch out for is the picture having an embedded link in it. Anyone clicking on it takes them to the parent site.

Someone used a picture from my site in an Ebay advert, I was inundated with hits due to the embedded link. Ebay took the advert down and banned the seller.
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Yes... I don't think it would be a big deal, but why even go there Right ??

??? maybe go take some pictures here and there??? maybe look at some pictures on line and ask permission ??

lots to this................ looking into SEO and tags........... man oh man

maybe I'll put it off again for this year???


Nah............ I'm on a mission !
 
ritelec said:
Funny !!!!!!!!!!!! :- )

Actually I don't take pictures of my work............ never did.

thinking about visiting older jobs and asking but.... doesn't sound appropriate ??

maybe I could ??
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Like me, I have a grand total of 2 photographs of my work from 40+ years. Company rules were no site photographs on pain of dismissal.

While working for them I was moonlighting as a professional photographer sponsored by Kodak (a rival company).
 
I would go back to previous jobs and ask permission before I put a pic of someone else's work on your website.

You don't need many; I put like 6 on ours, and they're very basic. They are used as headers. One of a house at night with a lot of landscape lighting, one of a dude working in a panel, one of a bucket truck, an aerial worksite photo, one of two dudes working in some gear.....etc....

Simple photos and simple one-line descriptors of services offered.


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It would be a violation of our site policy for anyone to post ways to illegally use intellectual property from someone else, so let's all just steer clear of that, OK?

If you use pics from other websites, you COULD get in trouble if anyone recognizes them as theirs and you don't have the digital rights to them. If you get permission, make sure you have it in writing, and if it is via email, print out the email or store it as a document somewhere; email servers sometimes purge or crash. One way you can do this is to search on image hosting sites like Flickr or Google Photos using a term like "residential electrical", then you will see thumbnails of personal pics that people have posted. That then gives you an avenue to ask them for permission to use it. some people are really nice about it, some want money, you never know.

Another alternative is to buy images from image websites, often known as "stock photos". In those, the photographers have sold the rights to imaging companies and you pay for the use of either a block of images or individual images. But be careful with this too, because many of them advertise "free" images and get you to sign up for something that results in a mess, or they basically stole the images themselves and you can get caught using them when they do.

Some software packages, like PowerPoint, come with access to stock images that are licensed for you to use, assuming you bought your license to their software to begin with.
 
Tony S said:
Like me, I have a grand total of 2 photographs of my work from 40+ years. Company rules were no site photographs on pain of dismissal.

While working for them I was moonlighting as a professional photographer sponsored by Kodak (a rival company).
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Forty plus years alive and there is only two pictures of my face known to exist in the world, pain suffered by viewers caused all others to be destroyed.
 
Just a thought, take your camera and go to a friends house and get your pics. Yank the cover off the panel, yank an outlet out of the wall etc
 
jumper said:
Jraef, nice post. Great advice and warnings.:thumbsup:
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I learned the hard way...

I do a lot of training and modify the company provided PowerPoints (snooze...) because I like to use pictures of what I'm talking about. People like my presentations and I gave them out. Someone somewhere got hold of one and recognized one of their photos I had "borrowed" off of the net then contacted our legal dept. I got a very painful lesson about digital rights (that is still likely on my "permanent record") and then everyone in our company was forced to take training on it too, using ME as the bad example. I was very unpopular with my coworkers for a while...

By the way, if you were unaware of this, there are software programs and websites used by digital imaging rights "people" that you provide an image to and it breaks it down into the code that makes it up, then scours the internet like Google does, looking for specific code sequences of those images to see if anyone is using them. One such is an on-line service called TinEye if you want to see it in action, but that one is very "low power" for general public use, the image has to be almost exact (no cropping, color changes etc.) for it to find it. The "pros" use a much more powerful version that can find even PIECES of copyrighted images...
 
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ritelec said:
Hello all.

After years of putting off make a web sight I decided to make one

Like everything else it's turning into s learning process.

I figured I would just get pics fin the internet of wiring but then rethought it and decide not to infringe on possible copy writes or what ever else might be out there.

In going through picture libraries. Most all wiring seems to be cord European blues and Browns. Male and female models High tension ??? Pictures that aren't quite what I'm looking for.
I'm looking for decent rx house wiring. Panel. Knob and tube. Fuse box.

Anyone have experience on where to get good shots in a real life application ??

Just throughing it out there. Thanks for the help
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Good rethink. Under American copyright law, if I post on line a pic I took, I automatically own the copyright to it, no registration required, tho that does help with infringement cases. Under "Fair Use", you can use my pic for certain things like commentary, critique, parody, and so on. Using my pic, even with accreditation to me, on your site to advertise is now commercial use, and I would have a case. No biggie if all I do is get a cease and desist and you only have to take down an image from your site, but if your made a company logo or van decals out of that pic, that could get a lot messier.

Public domain is not 'everything not credited on the 'net'. Most of what is out there is not public domain. Next time you go to a restaurant, listen to the waitresses sing "Happy Happy Birthday". It's not the same version we grew up with, because yes, as old and lame as "Happy Birthday" is, it's still protected and performing it publicly is :happyno: (which is why we now have the even lamer version :D )

As for good shots of your work, put up a CL ad or contact a local small photographer. There are a lot of people out there who are shutterbugs that would be glad to have the work and some recognition as well.

eta: never "hotlink" a pic. I did that once for a pic from a site that didnt appreciate the extra traffic. The pic I saw was of like a kitten in a box. The pic everyone else saw, presumably because they didnt have the site cookie, was incredibly disgusting, think something like a cross between cheech and chong and trainspotting bathroom scenes.
 
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