Re: photos for web

Hey Monica:
I thought the same thing when I first arrived. I used to run a small ad
agency and we had more resources...It was our lifeblood.

I've asked about the students too, seems that managing the model rights
was/is an issue.

Pepper

> I know there are plenty of resources out there, and some of your
> suggestion are excellent. I already bookmarked them.
>
> But like Susan, I'm also constantly on the lookout for good
> photography and I'm very frustrated that an institution as large as
> Cal doesn't seem to have a pool of photos for staff to use. I don't
> know if other universities do or if my expectations are off the
> charts and laughable. But I come from a smaller place but where we
> had far better resources to draw on. I was sure finding a photo would
> not be a problem here. Whoa!
>
> We're all in the same boat -- trying to promote Cal. Why do we have
> to keep reinventing the wheel? Or go out to buy boring stock photos
> of non-Cal students when there must be thousands and thousands of
> images of our own students/teachers/classrooms etc etc ... but we
> can't find them.
>
> If no such resource is available, I wonder if there's some way to
> start organizing one. I'm quite new here (to my job, I mean, not to
> Berkeley!) so I don't know the cast of characters very well. But I'm
> sure there must be photographers and communications people everywhere
> who could be persuaded to pool their resources in some way. Or am I
> really naive?
>
> Monica
>
> Monica Friedlander ~ Communications Manager ~ College of Letters and
> Science
> 201 Campbell Hall ~ UC Berkeley ~ Berkeley, CA 94720 ~ 510. 642. 1307
>
>
> On Jun 21, 2006, at 11:39 AM, Raymond Yee wrote:
>
>> Depending on how you plan to use the images, you might also explore
>> Creative Commons licensed photos (http://creativecommons.org/) that
>> you might be able to use free of charge. You can try the CC search
>> page: http://search.creativecommons.org
>>
>> I think that for searching Creative Commons licensed images on
>> flickr.com is a potentially good way to go http://flickr.com/
>> creativecommons/
>>
>> -Raymond Yee
>>
>> Susan L. Hedgpeth wrote:
>>> Hi Webnet,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for photos of doctors (medical, optometrist, vet,
>>> etc.) and other medical personnel to use on our health careers web
>>> pages. Some questions have come up:
>>>
>>> 1. What are the rules for using photos found on the web for
>>> example via a google search? i.e., do I need to get permission to
>>> use them?
>>>
>>> 2. Does the university have a library of photos that I can use?
>>>
>>> 3. Do you know of other sources for photos?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Susan Hedgpeth
>>> Career Center
>>> career.berkeley.edu
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Raymond Yee 2195 Hearst (250-22)
>> Technology Architect UC Berkeley
>> Interactive University Project Berkeley, CA 94720-3810
>> yee@uclink.berkeley.edu 510-642-0476 (work)
>> http://iu.berkeley.edu/rdhyee 413-541-5683 (fax)
>>
>>
>
>

Regards,

Pepper L. Moore
Senior Designer
UC Berkeley Extension
1995 University Ave.
3rd Floor
Berkeley, CA 94720

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