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TPF Noob!
- Joined
- Apr 25, 2012
- Messages
- 21
- Reaction score
- 9
- Location
- Alberta Canada
- Can others edit my Photos
- Photos OK to edit
I am feeling extremely frustrated and just have to post (which I never do as I have been a member of the site for 3 years and only have one other post). My wife and I have had a photography business for almost 5 years. I am used to clients screenshoting images for use to repost and to try to reproduce. I understand that is just the way things are and you live with it and deal with it. Everyone signs a contract and gets a copy of it and our business practices that state that it is against copyright laws, as well as the fact that we are a print product based business and that we do not sell or release digital images (we have a full printing, mounting, laminating and framing setup so very little ever leaves our hands except press printed albums). This fall a fellow local professional (and I use that term very loosely as they are the $30 shoot and burn kind of bussiness whose work I feel is quite poor) hired us to do her family photos. From the moment we met them, my wife and I both had an uncomfortable feeling about them. Since the shoot day she was very impatient waiting for her proofs which we display in a web gallery. Then she was very aggressive during our in person sales meeting. Now she sent us a picture which consists of 2 of our screenshoted images composited together and telling us this is how she wants an enlargement done (which was never mentioned at the meeting). My wife and I are furious. How would you deal with this from someone who should know better than to edit someone elses work without permission? We just dont know what to say and how to react to this other photographer.
Anyway, this was a heck of a way to introduce myself after stalking the forum for 3 years. So Hello everyone. Lol.
Marcel
Anyway, this was a heck of a way to introduce myself after stalking the forum for 3 years. So Hello everyone. Lol.
Marcel