Now… I am not averse to people putting subtle signatures or watermarks on their photographs – it is something I have started doing of late after increasing the resolution of my shared photographs to something potentially “useful”.
HOWEVER…
There are companies out there that “create” signatures for photographs for you – you send them your name and they create a signature for you… so it isn’t YOUR signature, it is just a logo! It seems to be popular with the very amateur end of the market and a few aspiring pros… and I can see that it is designed to make your images “look” more professional. But to me using a made up signature is just fake and kinda devalues the work!
Here is a copy of a front page of one such service:
Yes, they all look very authentic and very flash – but they aren’t real!
Perhaps it is just me that gets annoyed by this, but hey – we are supposed to be original, artistic and creative and this just reeks of everything opposite to that!
In contrast – this is my current watermark. It has my actual signature on it!
This is going to change again though I think as I start working towards a massive rebrand and redirection of my efforts, but that is another story!