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Journal Entry: Sun Apr 6, 2008, 5:28 AM
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WE ARE DISGUSTED AT THE FACT PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY ATTEMPTING TO REPORT SOME OF OUR WORK! READ OUR JOURNAL BEFORE CONSIDERING TO REPORT! WE ARE A LARGE UK BASED COMPANY WHO WORK FOR LARGER COMPANIES IN REGARDS TO PHOTOGRAPHIC MARKETING. WE CREATED ALL THESE IMAGES WITHIN THIS ACCOUNT. IF REPORTS CONTINUE OR MORE SLANDERING COMMENTS - THIS ACCOUNT WILL BE CLOSED - FINAL WARNING! (Stop being so ungreatful!)
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I AM NO LONGER ALLOWING PEOPLE TO USE MY STOCK OUTSIDE OF DA AS OF 4TH APRIL 08.

This is due to abuse of my images, such as not informing me that images are being used out of DA. If this continues I will not hesitate to delete this account!!


N.B. I appreciate people contacting me when they see some of our photography. But let me announce to you all now, we do alot of work for David Lloyd Saks, who do hair and beauty so you will see some of our works in popular magazines so please stop telling us! We are aware! :D
As of late we have also been doing some major contract work with Nicky Clarke and Hugo Boss.
Also, I'm not the only photographer here. There is a full team here who have given this account permission to use the images.

Also we do not allow people to just 'change the lighting' or 'blur out blemishes' these images are for MANIPULATION. However, if you show the before and after shot in your deviation that is acceptable - If you do not show the before and after we will ask you politely to remove your deviation; failing that we will ask DeviantART to remove it.

- Thank you.

PLEASE SUPPORT MY MAIN ACCOUNT!
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FAQ

Q. What Camera do you use?
A. We use many different types of camera for different shots but we mainly use the following: Canon EOS-1DS Mark II, Kodak ProBack645 and NIKON D1X.

Q. Who have you worked for?
A. Toni&Guy, Nicky Clarke, Saks, Adobe, Sanpatrick, D'Zage, Je T'aime (more to be listed)

Q. Can I use your photographs
A. Yes, of course you can. This is a stock account, where I offer my pictures to the community. Aslong as they are being used respectively and not in offensive or pornographic situations, then that's fine.

Q. Are these all your own works?
A. Yes & No. Some were taken by myself and the rest have had their ownership rights passed to myself by my work colleagues. Some peices of my work are maybe a year old or even older, but I will try and get some newer stuff in asap.

Q. Do you take requests?
A. Sometimes but I can't promise they will be done, but I take all requests as suggestions for future work.

Q. Why isn't there any themed stock like you find on DA such as fancydress costumes?
A. We do not take that type of photography but it can be arranged if people really want them, remember be creative! Perhaps find a dress and photoshop it onto one of our models..!

Q. Can I use one of your images and make it into new stock?
A. No. My images are for manipulation use only and you are not allowed to reproduce my stock.

Q. Can I use your stock outside of DA?
A. No. My stock is for the DA community ONLY. If I find anyone using my stocks outside of DA from April 4th 08, I will not hesitate to close this account.

Q. Can I use your stock in my prints?
A. Yes.

Q. I found your stock images on another site / in someone elses DA account and they say the images belong to them! What do I do?
A. Contact me by note giving the URL or account name and I will deal with the problem directly.

Q. What if I fail to abide by your stock rules and wishes?
A. If enough people go against my rules I will not hesitate in closing this account. So please follow my rules.


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~HyperMuseumBurn:iconHyperMuseumBurn: 34 minutes 39 seconds ago
Thank you even though it was your beautiful piece of photography to start with. :P :hug:

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~Geloooo:iconGeloooo: 15 hours 2 minutes ago
Hello, I was looking for stocks for my new project and yours keep popping up. Very consistent stocks! Thank you for providing us with such beautiful stocks :D

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~dserret:icondserret: 1 day 23 hours ago
I totally support your work! keep the possitive vibe coming :D

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*Katanaz-Stock:iconKatanaz-Stock: 2 days 3 hours ago
The name Katanaz is an alias of one of our team members who is a member here on DeviantART, hence the user profile Katanaz (which includes alot of manipulated artwork). They have used DeviantART before and have had another account. But after deleting their original account, they used the name Katanaz, and pointed us in the direction of DeviantART, we were impressed at how strongly built the community was, and felt we would like to be a part of that. We work this account between 6 team members in our own time and have really enjoyed helping artists out. Obviously some of our images are stricly copyrighted to our company and/or the client and we are unable to upload them here. However, we obtain all the rights to many of our photographs and have selected a fair few which we feel are good enough for the community here.

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~M-IV:iconM-IV: 2 days 6 hours ago
Haha, no worries, it's been a pleasure and I appreciate your kind replies as well.

Well, I can only promise I'd watch this dA and your other dA. I'm sure you guys got each others backs in your company when trouble strikes.

I am curious as to what these idiots actually have been saying about this dA's stock and what-not. On another note- is 'Katanaz' the name of the company or the name of your supposed alias on dA?

Looking forward to see what new comes out from here :)

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*Katanaz-Stock:iconKatanaz-Stock: 2 days 7 hours ago
Again, another strong and bold comment. - Thank you :heart:
Can you just hover around here and make us feel better in times of need? Haha..
We're determined to continue and ignore these idiots who enjoy making our time here a living hell. Though recently we haven't had many comments, I think they've finally taken the hint that we are a company and not just a one man band..

We appreciate everyones comments, and we promise to continue - On that note, we have a big batch of images coming very soon! :D

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~M-IV:iconM-IV: 2 days 9 hours ago
Hey that's how I see it.

And they always say that the nice guy/girl always comes last, I don't agree; coz lets say if the nice guy/girl knows how to handle him/herself, then we have nice guys/girls who win. I like to give myself, not that I have too much to give haha, yet it takes a little finesse and wisdom to deal with undesirables, better yet - knowing which battles to fight and which ones that aren't even worth your time.

Goodness knows, the crap that you deal with are almost always from a bunch of stupid 12 year olds who think they're really cool and great by trying to piss on the peace and ruining other peoples day, even if they're older than that, you're then dealing with adults who should be mature but have the mental age of a bunch of dimwitted 12 year olds. Closing down due to the stupid immaturity of a bunch of 12 year olds or worse, seems a pretty
indignant end to such a professional outlet of the quality photography you're providing.

Plus, if you guys stick around, I might start picking up on the professionalism and learn to use my damn camera ;D

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*Katanaz-Stock:iconKatanaz-Stock: 2 days 10 hours ago
Such a strong statement :D
We do want to battle against these ungreatful handful of people as we love giving back to the community.
We love seeing students or budding arists work on our stock for school/college projects or even personal projects. There's a right self sense of satisfaction in what we do. We just hate seeing people ruin it for us and for others.

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~M-IV:iconM-IV: 2 days 11 hours ago
Gee, you know out of every 1,000 people, there will be one spiteful slob of a hick who has nothing better to do with his/her time.

So I'd say there's a 1 in 1,000 chance you'll receive a hostile/vulgar/indecent/racist/- discriminative/inappropriate/sexist/ageist/slightly arrogant/severely sarcastic/irredeemably critical comment as it would come about.

Plus, this is the internet, which at times- is worse than the real world or vice-versa. I think closing down would be a cop-out.

Show your solidarity fellow human :), you have amazing work here, don't let the stupid side of reality bring you down.

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*Katanaz-Stock:iconKatanaz-Stock: 3 days 2 hours ago
We look forward to a busy and constructive future but we fear with enough hostile comments we will just decide to close down.

We offer high quality stock for free to budding and experienced artists and use our own time to do so. We don't have to take the spiteful and ungreatful comments..

But hopefully, with enough posititve support, we will continue to bring you more stock!

:heart:

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~bluemoon-175:iconbluemoon-175: 3 days 4 hours ago Mood: Wow!
You shouldn't shut something down because some one else is jealous or stupid. The work here is fantastic, and is a wonderful job done.
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