Around 18 months ago, one of our nieces asked us over, so that I could take some pictures of her young son. I did so, and they and the rest of her family were very happy with the results, and with the prints which I gave them (free of course), along with a disc containing about thirty images, all edited.
A month later they asked me to shoot the Christening, which I did, providing prints and a disc.
When I first started all this, I asked the niece if she minded me using them to build up a portfolio and use for practice editing, and she and her husband said that was OK, and they would also have a word with friends (at her toddler group), to see if anyone else was interested.
At around the time of the Christening, I also posted one image on Facebook (which I had joined simply to share images with half a dozen of our relations abroad, who are also direct relations of the niece). She was also happy about this.
Last year she had another child, and all of this was repeated again.
Then, around two weeks ago, my wife was speaking to her brother (the father of the niece in question), and he went into one about the images being all over Facebook, and if he knew that, then he would not have let me take any pictures (not even his child!).
It transpires that the pictures, were a result of his son getting the disc, and copying images onto Facebook so that his many hundreds of friends can see them (they are only ordinary portrait shots).
The brother in law is not backing down over this, and the niece is not putting him straight either, and to be perfectly honest, I don't want to be involved with them if that is their attitude.
They also have a large canvas print of one of my images hanging in their living room.
Am I right to be a bit "hacked off" about all of this?
Andy
A month later they asked me to shoot the Christening, which I did, providing prints and a disc.
When I first started all this, I asked the niece if she minded me using them to build up a portfolio and use for practice editing, and she and her husband said that was OK, and they would also have a word with friends (at her toddler group), to see if anyone else was interested.
At around the time of the Christening, I also posted one image on Facebook (which I had joined simply to share images with half a dozen of our relations abroad, who are also direct relations of the niece). She was also happy about this.
Last year she had another child, and all of this was repeated again.
Then, around two weeks ago, my wife was speaking to her brother (the father of the niece in question), and he went into one about the images being all over Facebook, and if he knew that, then he would not have let me take any pictures (not even his child!).
It transpires that the pictures, were a result of his son getting the disc, and copying images onto Facebook so that his many hundreds of friends can see them (they are only ordinary portrait shots).
The brother in law is not backing down over this, and the niece is not putting him straight either, and to be perfectly honest, I don't want to be involved with them if that is their attitude.
They also have a large canvas print of one of my images hanging in their living room.
Am I right to be a bit "hacked off" about all of this?
Andy
