Paul Drajem is a plagiarist and a biased moderator.
He's posting other people's work as his own, I know full well he was never in the air with a flight of American P-51 Mustangs just to name one. He discriminates against members in the contests he moderates by disqualifying photographs submitted without cause. He is a disgrace to this community and to the profession of photography.
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Hello Charles, that is very serious accusation. Please provide proof about your accusations for copyright infringement.
Pixoto employees will not interfere with moderation of community contests (unless contest violates community contest rules), but please provide example where Paul has disqualified images without cause.
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One that stands out is a black-and-white shot of a squad of Army P-51 Mustangs in flight formation. I hope that's not the only picture he took of such a magnificent flight as that. I've only flown one on a simulator but they're bad to the bone. I'd love to see the proof sheets from that flight is all I'm saying.
I simply won't bother with any contests he runs. I've been a published photographer for many decades and a pro for almost as long as that. I started out in school developing my own film in Jr. High. I made them put me in it and I fell in love. Nuff said. I shot hundreds of frames to capture a shot called Lightning Bug that won an award on here on Pixoto with a Nokia Lumia 1020 camera set to shoot like 8 frames in tens of thousandths of a second each and I had to delete a ton of black sky pictures every time I shot thunderstorms but I caught that shot in the middle of a series and only that one frame caught it.
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Hi Charles, I asked for proof, links to same images online that show somebody else as photographer of image. You didn't provide that. I will leave this topic for 24 more hours and if you don't provide proof this topic will be removed.
Regarding photographing lightnings, it is much easier to use long exposure (30 sec) with low ISO and you won't have so much useless frames and you'll have bigger chance to capture lightning.
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Hi Johan, on the link you provided is visible only that Edgar Aldana posted that image on Pintarest, nowhere does it say that he took the image himself. You can see people putting other photographers images on Pinterest, that doesn't mean they photographed them.
I did use Google search and couldn't find explicitly that somebody else claims copyright for that image, that is why I asked for proof.Regards, Jasenka
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Hi Johan, already did that, waiting for reply. Regards, Jasenka
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Further more: According to the image information the shutter speed was 1/13 of a second. Who captures flying aircraft with such a slow shutter speed… iso 400 and 1/13 of a second in daylight.
Well, I rest my case…
I don’t think you should remove this topic without further investigations.
If I would be onboard an airoplane with the posibility to photograph historic fighter planes I would take hundreds of pictures. Maybe you should ask Paul Drajem to show us some more pictures of this unique event.
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