I note that you shot the wedding for free. See, she figured your price was right, and wanted to pay the same for reprints.
Been there, done that, and was cheated out of the t-shirt as well.
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Tanya Mayer Photography wrote:
Tom (Graywolf) wrote:
"> Yep those $5.00 frame and matt sets are nowhere as good the $100.00 ones you get
from the frame shop. Now, if I can just figure out why someone who tells
me my
prints are not worth $20 are willing to pay $100 to have that cheap print framed."
I TOTALLY agree Tom! In fact, I was completely appalled the other day. I had a brides mother come and ask me for prices for one 11x14 and one 8x10 enlargement from her daughters wedding. She was all smiles and said she would come back with an order the following day. She never did come back. So anyways, the following week, I go into my framer to drop some jobs off, and low and behold, there on his work bench were two framed photos, a 11x14 and an 8x10! Yep, the cow had taken them to a one hour lab, had them scanned and printed for probably like $2 and now had them at the professional framers paying around $100 per print to have them framed. Great to see that one hour labs are taking notice of copyright stamps on the back of photos these days.
When I see her next I am going to call her on it, as I actually shot the wedding for free in the first place. It was the first wedding I had done in a year, due to being pregnant and having my daughter etc, so I felt a bit rusty and told them that I would shoot for free providing that they paid for film etc, so that I could get some practice. And how dumb is she anyways, knowing that he is the only framer in town, obviously I would find out about it some way. Some people just don't appreciate anything, and I am fast learning to stop doing freebies cause I seem to be constantly being taken advantage of...
tan.
-- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com/graywolf.html
