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I worked for a professional photographer. Customers don't pay professional photographers to take photos, they pay them to take good photos. The end photos which

by psyklic 13y ago

I worked for a professional photographer. Customers don't pay professional photographers to take photos, they pay them to take good photos. The end photos which go to customers are edited to look as good as possible, which is why the customer is charged per shot. Even a professional does not take perfect pictures every shot. Giving a customer a CD with all the outtakes simply doesn't reflect well on the photographer's talent, since he is not paid enough to ensure they are all high quality.

gknoy 13y ago
For those of us paying for photos of babies, kids, or annual family pictures, we frequently are less interested in getting One Awesome Photo, (or three), but rather in documenting a shared time together. Yes, I'd like to have the good copies: spend your time on those. But I'd also like the outtakes where my son is picking his nose, or my daughter is trying to peel my eyelids off. I don't want to have them hanging on my wall, but which do you think I and my grandkids will want to see in sixty years? I care about the talent of the photographer, because I'd like one or two good photos, but we recommend her to our friends due to her behavior, accomodation of two unruly and not-always-cooperative kids, as well as her ability to find the good shots. We don't expect perfect pictures. Our facebook friends will not know who the photographer is, and live across the country anyway, so there's no risk of them ever being a customer of hers even if they did know. We don't plan to sell them, etc. The answer, of course, is to find a photographer who is willing to negotiate a good price on the service of taking excellent pictures as well as on access to the data.
- lawnchair_larry 13y ago
  Those are not outtakes. Outtakes are bad exposure, hand obscuring the lens, ghosting, etc. Objectively bad work. It's more like why you wouldn't want to give up all the functions you ended up throwing out when doing a development gig. I do think that not giving the majority of the acceptable files is silly though. Most photographers often seem to greatly overvalue their work. Not that good ones don't exist, but craigslist is overwhelmed with talentless photogs who overspent on gear and put obnoxious watermarks on everything.

by psyklic 13y ago

gknoy 13y ago

For those of us paying for photos of babies, kids, or annual family pictures, we frequently are less interested in getting One Awesome Photo, (or three), but rather in documenting a shared time together. Yes, I'd like to have the good copies: spend your time on those. But I'd also like the outtakes where my son is picking his nose, or my daughter is trying to peel my eyelids off. I don't want to have them hanging on my wall, but which do you think I and my grandkids will want to see in sixty years? I care about the talent of the photographer, because I'd like one or two good photos, but we recommend her to our friends due to her behavior, accomodation of two unruly and not-always-cooperative kids, as well as her ability to find the good shots. We don't expect perfect pictures. Our facebook friends will not know who the photographer is, and live across the country anyway, so there's no risk of them ever being a customer of hers even if they did know. We don't plan to sell them, etc. The answer, of course, is to find a photographer who is willing to negotiate a good price on the service of taking excellent pictures as well as on access to the data.

lawnchair_larry 13y ago
Those are not outtakes. Outtakes are bad exposure, hand obscuring the lens, ghosting, etc. Objectively bad work. It's more like why you wouldn't want to give up all the functions you ended up throwing out when doing a development gig. I do think that not giving the majority of the acceptable files is silly though. Most photographers often seem to greatly overvalue their work. Not that good ones don't exist, but craigslist is overwhelmed with talentless photogs who overspent on gear and put obnoxious watermarks on everything.