From: Xosni (xosni@gega.net)
Date: 09/03/02-12:18:50 PM Z
Jeff,
But how can you make money off reprints if it's his property that you are
photographing? Don't have to ask for permission to sell that?
Xosni
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Sumner" <jdos2@mindspring.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: working for a client?
> It depends on what your client wants. There's a heated discussion over in
rec.photo.equipment.medium-format about this exact
> thing.
>
> What it boils down to, for me, is that if I give away my negatives I lose
the right to make money off reprints. If the client wants the
> negatives, I have to guess (figure) the likelihood of them wanting
reprints and how much I'd make from them and add that into the
> price of the shoot.
>
> Since it isn't my profession, I usually just include the negatives with
the "photo credit" caveat, if the customer wants them. I
> increase the price a bit. I don't have an archival storage facility that
can handle all the negatives I would collect.
>
> JD
>
> On Tue, 03 Sep 2002 08:41:45 -0500, shannon stoney wrote:
>
> >Somebody asked me yesterday to make some large format photographs of
> >his landscaping work so that he can use them on his website and make
> >some large prints to hang in his office and garden store. I was
> >going to charge him a small hourly fee and let him pay for the film
> >and processing and give him the negatives to have prints made; and
> >maybe I would scan them for him also. My partner has hired
> >architectural photographers before, and he said that he thinks the
> >normal thing is for the photographer to keep the negatives and have
> >prints made for the client. Would it be better to do it that way, or
> >give the guy the negatives? I've never done anything "for hire"
> >before so I'm not sure how to proceed.
> >
> >--shannon
> >--
>
> JD
> 2001 Moto Guzzi V-11 Sport
> 1999 Triumph Trophy (Shop Bike) 1200
>
>
>
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