Honestly, I was beginning to wonder why the shots from Dir en grey opening for the Deftones were getting so many views on Flickr (ten-fold over other sets).
This morning a Flickr user commented that she’d seen people making graphics from my images on LiveJournal. As it turns out, a user made some icons from a few of the concert images, which you can see above, and posted them. Icons one through seven were made from my images.
The poster credited me and linked to my Flicker gallery, which accounts for the increased traffic. Dir en grey fans are dedicated!
The Flickr Adventure continues.
8 Comments Add your own
1. Aya | June 29th, 2007 at 7:26 am
The pictures are great and those icons are really cool.
I’m actually suprised about the crediting though, it’s really rare that people in that fanbase bother to credit for any pictures they use.
2. Todd | June 29th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Thanks, Aya. I think the icons actually turned out well and I’m happy to have been credited. A few other Dir en grey fans contacted me about using the images for making similar icons, so there are certainly considerate fans out there.
3. akuii | July 6th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
My blog is run with w2 too,and I want to konw how to display image and video on home page.please tell me.Thanks.
4. Todd | July 7th, 2007 at 11:02 am
Akuii, I’m linking images from my Flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/toddowyoung
Flickr provides the code for blogging images and I paste that into the code while writing posts. As for video, most sites like YouTube and Google video also supply the code for embedding clips.
Hope that helps.
5. akuii | July 7th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Yes,I konw that.I mean w2 used the Excerpt Reloaded Plugin doesn’t dispaly images or videos in posts on home page (like http://ishootshows.com/),not the Flikr in sidebar.
Can you get my words?
Thanks.you can E-mail me.
6. blame8008 | August 5th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Haha, Dir en grey fans have often come up against copyright laws and such. So when we come across photos, we always try to credit people (crediting is actually a pretty big thing in the japanese rock community). Depending on the person (creator), the people taking icons or graphics are asked to credit them or not.
Besides that, I love your pictures. The contrasting is so sharp, I love it. I hope you go to another photograph Dir en grey again when they come back on their next tour. I, as well as many other I’m sure, would love to see more of your stuff!
7. Todd | August 6th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Hi blame8008,
Thanks for your comment. It seems as though some fans are very concerned with copyright, as you mentioned, and photographers certainly appreciate this courtesy.
I’m glad you enjoy the images, it’s been a lot of fun to hear back from the enthuseastic Dir en grey fanbase. That band has generated by far the most interest out of all the concerts I’ve photographed (literally 10x over any other image set). I’d love the opportunity to photograph them and hope to see them again soon.
8. Diru United | September 21st, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Requesting permission to create banners from your Dir En Grey imagery. Not sure if this is the correct location to make such a request. Feel free to delete this post if that is the case.
Kind Regards,
Myspace Diru United Admin.
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