Wedding Vendors - best practices for sharing photos
By Florent Vidal Photography
WEDDING VENDORS
BUILDING MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU
WE LOVE SHARING OUR WORK WITH YOU!
Thank you for getting in touch with us! It was great working with you at a recent wedding. We love sharing our images with you to showcase your work.
We’re sure that we all value our couple’s requests. We have to respect their privacy and if they wish for the images to stay private sadly, we can’t share their wedding gallery with you.
We agree to share the photos with you free of charge, the copyright rights licence to use images for your personal marketing, which includes your social media, personal blogs, and/or printed materials such as brochures and leaflets. It does not cover the sale of photographs for profit in any way, shape or form (eg a wedding magazine offering to pay for an image - well that would be wishful thinking in this day and age! ).
THE IMAGES ARE ONLY FOR YOUR PERSONAL MARKETING
This is non-transferable, meaning that third parties wishing to use the photographs will have to be directed to us via emailing angelica@fvidalphotography.com.au
So please don’t go sharing the love so freely with wedding directories/magazines, vendors, etc who haven’t personally filled in the form below. If in doubt, please email us.
ALL WE ASK OF YOU
When a picture is not just a picture.
To some, it’s ‘just a picture’. What’s the big deal? To us, this is our entire livelihood so we are naturally protective and particular about how they are used.
We’re not trying to be difficult or demanding. Just protecting our work. Sadly, it’s often misunderstood in the digital age. The photo already exists and the client has paid for them, so what difference does it make how other vendors use them? Well, there’s a whole world out there of copyright law and intellectual property and crediting someone for their work (just like we credit ALL vendors that the clients make us aware of).
We simply ask that in exchange for images you’ve received at no cost to yourself, you respect the guidelines we’ve outlined below. This is in order to make this a fair trade, which benefits both our business and yours.
HOW TO CREDIT PROPERLY WHEN ON SOCIAL MEDIA?
Please add a @fvidalphotography in the caption below the image that makes it clear who the author of the photo is.
Example of properly crediting vendors on social media
When creating a STORY for your social media, all participants must be included in the credit eg @fvidalphotography
WHEN USING THE PHOTOS ON YOUR WEBSITE
You already know that we love sharing photos with vendors like you. However, when we require a backlink we usually don’t get the LOVE back. We don’t know why because it’s one of the best things that we can all benefit from!
When using the photos from the shoot on your website, a photo credit with a URL LINK must be added from your website to: fvidalphotography.com.au
WHY WE’RE A PAIN IN THE BACK WHEN IT COMES TO REQUIRING A BACKLINK?
Your link ultimately helps us increase our visibility in the search results by demonstrating to Google that our site is worth linking to.
But it’s not all about us!
It also helps YOUR website to be visible to potential clients. If we link each other we create a web! It’s not as sexy as social media, but when you dominate Google for a keyword then you will have plenty of clients trapped in your web.
FAQs regarding backlinks?
I will put your name on the photo or credit your business name. Is this enough?
While the logo on the photo is much appreciated, a backlink is what really helps us in return! Some businesses use social media to promote their business, our bread and butter comes from Google. So if you’re using any of our photos on your website, we ask that you do the right thing and link us back.I don’t know how to put a backlink or there’s no place to put it what do I do?
If you can upload a photo then you can figure out how to put a backlink :) Please ask your web designer, your mates or even your kids will know how to do this. For example, create a Real Wedding section or create a hyperlink from the photo itself. Here is the perfect opportunity to link everyone involved! Let’s help EACH OTHER dominate GOOGLE.
Brochures and other personal printed materials
When using the photos for your own marketing printed materials, simply credit Photo: Florent Vidal Photography
OUR DETAILS
If you need to get in contact with us for any questions here are our details:
Florent and Angel
0405 666 260
angelica@fvidalphotography.com.au
Website https://fvidalphotography.com.au/
Instagram handle @fvidalphotography
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/fvidalphotography
Don’t forget to fill out the form below!
Fill in your details below to receive the photos
By filling in this form and submitting your details, you agree to the outlined above regarding the usage of photos. Thank you very much!
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