Creative Commons and the TSA photos

FWD_YAL_Sites, originally uploaded by M.Prophet Photography.

an update on the TSA "enhanced pat-down" photos I shot last week.

I have allowed the use of the photos under a creative commons "CC-BY" license. What this means is that others are allowed to distribute the photos freely and I have stated that they can be used by designers and incorporated into websites and flyers that are being created.

This is essentially pro-bono work done because it's something I support.

So, in the past week, I've been getting all sorts of messages and finding the photos have made their way into a variety of places. I'm glad people feel that the photographs deliver the message and I thought I'd share a few places where they have ended up.

Fly With Dignity (http://www.flywithdignity.org)
This is the first site I was in contact with. They wanted to create a resources page for others to get high quality images to use on flyers and other uses. So aside from the photographs being used on the main page, they are in a section dedicated to resources for designers.
http://flywithdignity.org/about/ad-copies/

Young Americans for Liberty (http://www.yaliberty.org/tsa)
This site, endorsed by Ron Paul, is a student run organization working to "mobilize students on the ideals of Liberty and the Constitution".
They have created a TSA activism website that includes the use of one of my photos, as well flyers for distribution that include the other photo.

For photographers interested in how I lit these photos, I will state that they actually didn't end up exactly how I was hoping, but they still looked like I had intended (almost) so I went with it.

I had 3 lights set up, all Alien Bee B800's

Directly behind the subjects I had a medium softbox from above, with a grid on the front of the soft box, basically to give slight separation and enhance the texture in the hair a bit.

Halfway between my camera and the subject and above by around 2 feet I had a beauty dish mounted on a b800 to give a "light coming from above" look. This is fairly typical of my work as I really like the look. It also gives a look of isolation and sort of reminds me of some dark room they might take you.

Last I had one more softbox, with b800, directly above my camera facing straight toward the subject for the purpose of a bit of fill on the front of the subject.

as for settings on camera:

Canon 5dMII
24-70mm 2.8L lens shot around 50-60mm
ISO: 100
F. / 9
Shutter: 1/160