Photographers have the same right as anyone else to be paid fairly for their work, this should go without saying. It also should go without saying that it's kind of a dick thing to do to not credit the photographer who wants credit if you're going to use their image. Common sense and decency and all that.
BUT I am really sick of seeing watermarks. They're ugly and utterly ruin the image. And there's really no point now, is there? Think of it this way: A photographer uploads watermarked image as samples of their work in hopes that a customer will pay them so they can have their unaltered image. And someone does pay them and gets to use the image. But then, it's just as likely that people will steal the image from the customer who paid as it is that they'd steal from the photographer directly. So with that in mind, I have to ask. Why would you ruin a photograph with a watermark when it's not at all effective to do so?
