The reason for the copyright and signature is, many large corps that sell fly fishing gear are really good at taking someones hard work and sharing it on their page with or without permission.
Or, someone else grabs it off my facebook page, and shares it with one of these big facebook pages.
This is fine, if no financial gain results, however...
What happens here is, they generate tons of likes, shares and other commercial gains, which inevitably result in financial gain. The financial gain may not be directly from the photo, but heck, it's mine and I want credit for it, even if Orvis posts it on their site and it gets 1700 likes, 100 shares from around the world, which has happened with at least a half dozen of my photos.
The photo may be nothing more than just an AGD, but that's called marketing in my book, guess that's open for opinion.
There is also a spider copyright in the photo as well, unseen by the naked eye.
The reason for the crop above his head ( and yes, I agree ) was because the top of the bridge was there. I went back and forth a few times, cropping, then backing up, until I settled there.
I can't rotate the image to make the pillar level, as then the angler wouldn't be level.
Troutbert..
The original image is much like this one, I blurred some of the background behind the anglers head, as the f4.6 didn't quite do the job. Beyond that, cropping, dodging the lower corners a bit, and adjusting the levels. I did desaturate the image a touch.
