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From: "Shel Belinkoff"
Subject: Re: Are your photos too good?
I'd be real pissed if I brought some work to my lab and Mo said "Gee,
Shel,
that's better than anything you've ever done. It must have been done
professionally, so we're not going to print it." OTOH, maybe one of the
advantages of using a small, local "pro" lab is that you don't have to put
up with the Walm-Mart (or other such labs) corporate mentality. No one
has
ever asked me if the work was mine.
I do work for a number of pro photographers, and several very good amateurs
as well.
These guys have self identified themselves, and we have learned what their
work looks like.
We print their stuff, no questions asked.
Would Mo print your work if it was an obvious copy job of a professional
portrait?
It's not corporate mentality at work, Shel, it's self preservation in
action.
Any lab operator that copies a professional copywritten image is attempting
to get the employment version of a Darwin Award.
William Robb
