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John Power wrote:
I shot a local dance competition and many parents are interested in buying prints. I have about 600 shots and need a web service that will let me upload them so the parents can review them and contact me with orders. I will want a PW protected site. I do not want to sell prints from the site. They can contact me directly about purchases.
Also, I know you don't want to hear this...but if there was a photographer contracted with the event to do this, then my guess is that you do not have the right to do this. My contracts with venues, clubs, events, are exclusive...and in writing. Some will correctly argue that you should only do any selling like this with approval from the venue, and contract with them. For people that contract for photographing events for the purpose of selling images, like me, it is a big deal when someone trys to go around the process and go around the arranged photographer.
I've had people do this to me over the years and I always have the event organizer to after them to stop, and they do. Nothing is more annoying then working out a deal with a school, or a venue, or a club, being insured, having a contract, bringing the gear, spending the time, than to have someone try to skirt the whole thing. It is bad business and loses money for both the venue and the photographer.
I had a women going around shooting one sport at a local HS I was contracted with, shooting the lacross games, passing out business cards, and selling CDs with all of her images for $50 each. I did not approach her directly, not my style, but did tell the school's Athletic Director who immediately put an end to that and gave a sermon to the Booster Club for the whole school about being on the lookout for this kind of thing and telling him whenever it happens so he can stop it. And it did not happen again. And needless to say, the way the woman was going about it, she knew she was wrong...but then again, she really did not care in the least, she was happy to make a few hundred bucks, at my and the school's expense, and move on to the next school (this last part is my speculation).
Some will also say that unless you are pricing to market for what photographers are charging, you are under-cutting the business in general.
So anyway, not saying you are doing this, but if you are and it were my gig, I'd have the club stop this in a heartbeat...and they would do so gladly. Not to mention the ethics of it.
That's my soapbox but it is also reality...hope it is helpful info.
Edited on Sep 05, 2008 at 07:47 PM
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