I shot some B & G portraits a little while ago at cost as a favor to a photographer friend. I was very pleased with the pictures as were the B & G. I was going to give the B & G the professional lab enlargements at cost too. I hoped to get a few more portrait jobs out of the assignment through word of mouth. I shot the pictures with medium format (non Pentax) and they were tack sharp. The enlargements would have been beautiful. The numbskull (deleted much stronger verbiage) bride took the 5x5 proofs to some jiffy print outfit and scanned them then got enlargements made from the scans to save a few dollars.
The more I think about this the angrier I get. The B & G got greatly inferior prints that don't in any way reflect the quality of my work. They passed up a great bargain and I feel like my reputation will be damaged every time someone looks at those lousy prints. I guess it's true that no good deed goes unpunished. Tom Reese
