bigtwinky
No longer a newbie, moving up!
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Sorry, again, you misinterpreted. What I meant was that the agreement was entirely arbitrary. You can do what you want. There is no guidance to be had. It is a unique situation. Ad hoc. Do you know what ad hoc means?
Unique situation? bs.
Wedding photographer doing weddings, selling wedding images. Does their first commercial shoot, had initial arrangements with 1 client, and then the 1 client wants more and a second client steps in. You think that is unique?
If you have never been through the situation, fine. That does not mean that others have not. I agree that each situation is different, but getting answers as to what others have done often helps in guiding one's decisions and using their experience and knowledge to help guide your own.
I use the term ad hoc as impromptu, random. I have scheduled appointments and I can have adhoc appointments, walkins type of thing. One of type of things.
I agree that the OPs situation is ad hoc for them, it is random, something they didn't plan for. But I dont believe this is an ad hoc situation for everyone, hence the OP already getting a good reply from oldmacman.
We implemented a new system at work. Online recruiting. We have never done it. While our company is unique, we found other companies who went through the same thing and discussed what they did, how they did it, why they did it. While they had their own reasons that we may or may not agree with, getting their insight was instrumental in putting together our strategy.
And even if it was totally unique situation that will never happen to them or anyone ever again, what is the harm in asking a group of photographers for their input on how to handle the situation? When faced with the unknown, I guess we should all just learn to deal with it on our own instead of seeking input from others??
I just thought it odd he asked for advice after he had already made the agreement. If he had asked here beforehand it would have made more sense. That was my point. Fair enough? Wedding photographers don't take all their photos on speculation, of course, and then hope to sell them. So, that's what struck me as odd.
I guess you read his thread quickly.
He discussed, agreed to terms (10-16 images on the wall, split the money if they sell minus the printing fees). Granted, he should of known the price to charge then.
But then the client wants more...for use on his website. This was not part of the original deal that the OP made, this was requested after. So he wonders whats the best way to handle this. There are varying opinions (charge him for them, dont charge and get traffic to your site, charge somewhat...), but this is what the OP wants.
Then, on top of that first deviation to the original agreement, the company that makes these things ALSO wants images... so again, how best to approach that situation.
So yeah, he should of settled the pricing of the prints with the original client first and had that in the contract. But there are still two other deviations to be delt with.