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01/29/2006 03:25:06 AM · #1 |
Okay.. so I was planning out my ideas for "Blue", and even sketched out one in particular. I planned out all of the details: location, time of day, lighting, the actual title, etc. I was quite proud of my idea and even bounced it off a couple friends (not DPC friends) :) ...
I did a google image search for the title I'd decided on and found nearly my EXACT idea, with only one tiny insignificant change, by someone well-known. Now I'm worried that if I go ahead with my plans, I'll be ripping off another artist....
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01/29/2006 03:33:37 AM · #2 |
Nothing wrong with that. If it's really well known it might be possible to get a couple low troll votes, but if your changes makes it original/different then you well probably get more then enough high votes to offset the low ones, if only.
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01/29/2006 03:34:27 AM · #3 |
If you like the idea (and you seem to) and feel it is worth the effort you have already put into it -- Go for it!
As the Tribute challenge has demonstrated, 'Imitation is the greatest form of flattery'.
Besides, there is no trademark or copywrite on ideas. Although you are not in this case, feel free to steal the ideas of others and make them your own.
One last note, it may be tempting, but resist the urge to betray your vision by altering the image to not have the resemblance of what another has done. Changing for creativities sake would be good, but changing for the sake of not 'seeing' like another would not be -- IMO, of course.
David
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01/29/2006 03:34:34 AM · #4 |
I wouldn't call it ripping off another artist. First of all you planned it all out before you saw the other take on it. Secondly, we all shoot places, things, subjects that others have shot before. Each is unique though as it has that personal touch to it. Look at the Tribute challenge - many chose to do a "copy" of what their well-known photog had shot previously. Yet they are still different.
I say go ahead with your idea, shoot it, process it, and enter it.
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01/29/2006 05:09:26 AM · #5 |
| There are no new ideas, and nothing new under the sun. Use your idea, if you throw it over for something else, that shot may have been done my someone else as well. Take your best shot and don't worry. |
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