p.2 #2 · What to do about clients using low res / less touched up images on facebook
D. Diggler wrote:
For a different perspective ...
There's a Big Name in the business (I don't want to drop the name here but this person is bigger than anyone on this thread and perhaps bigger than anyone on this whole forum) who says that the images should go straight out of camera to an online proofing gallery, after you've culled them. So, the images that go up online for client viewing have NO post work done to them. This Big Name says that the clients choose their album images from that online proofing gallery and their chosen images are the ones that get any post work, such as white balance, brightness, etc....Show more →
this is about the dumbest idea i heard in a long time. i am sure they then bother customers with 20 pages long NDA about not sending screenshots of the unfinished shots.
lol yea, big name my butt
p.2 #3 · What to do about clients using low res / less touched up images on facebook
ACRe wrote: That seems like a heckuva easy way to do it, as it would cut down on work that isn't necessary
I think that's the point of it: to cut down on unnecessary work. As I recall, the Big Name said [along the lines], "the client pays us to work our magic on the album pictures, not the proofs, and when the client sees the difference in appearance between the online gallery and the album pictures then they appreciate our talents all the more".
Jul 11, 2012 at 04:16 PM
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p.2 #4 · What to do about clients using low res / less touched up images on facebook
Or see the unedited ones and think "my friend with the nice camera did just as well as that"
