I can understand that they would want their website to be clean and about them. A credit underneath the photo would be acceptable but no credit at all means they need to pay for the image. This is the big farce of wedding photography. So many photographers don't value their work and just give it away without putting any value on it....therefore the vast majority of people don't either.
cineski wrote:
A credit underneath the photo would be acceptable but no credit at all means they need to pay for the image.
I would think that being listed on their recommended vendor page would be of far more value than a simple picture credit. A picture credit just says you snapped the shot as compared to being recommended.
cineski wrote:
I can understand that they would want their website to be clean and about them. A credit underneath the photo would be acceptable but no credit at all means they need to pay for the image. This is the big farce of wedding photography. So many photographers don't value their work and just give it away without putting any value on it....therefore the vast majority of people don't either.
I was just thinking this right here, remove the watermark and they can pay you for use of it or take it as it is.
D. Diggler wrote:
I would think that being listed on their recommended vendor page would be of far more value than a simple picture credit. A picture credit just says you snapped the shot as compared to being recommended.
I would take it off the image and go for the link, as others have said, honestly the SEO would probably be the most important. You also want to keep a really good relationship with the vendor because if they tell physically someone about your business that's 100x more powerful than just seeing your watermark on an image.
ZachOly wrote:
It depends if that list holds any credibility
+1 on credibility. SEO with no value isn't all that valuable.
skiboarder72 wrote:
I would take it off the image and go for the link, as others have said, honestly the SEO would probably be the most important. You also want to keep a really good relationship with the vendor because if they tell physically someone about your business that's 100x more powerful than just seeing your watermark on an image.
Yeah, but with others on the same page who knows if there will be any recommendation. My hope would be that someone would like the image enough to look-up the URL on their own.
