On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:51:54PM -0500, Christine Aguila wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > I'd very much like to know everyone's views about something that has just > happened to me; here's the story: > > I gave a nice print--as a gift--to a friend. My friend's father-in-law > took the print to get it framed, and come to find out, he also made some > scans of the print and gave them to family members. I'm just going to come > out and say it--I'm really irked by this. I often sign my prints in the > lower right hand edge, but I didn't on this print. > > How irked would you guys be? What, if anything, would you guys do or say?
I'm not trying to make any sort of money off my photos, and pretty much the only pay I get is people telling me when they like them. So, on one hand, I'd feel complimented that someone liked my photo well enough to go to that effort. On the other hand, part of that would depend on the quality of job that they did. It would also depend a bit on what the photo was of. My guess is that it was a picture of your friend and their spouse, or family. I also suspect that the Fa-I-L is of the "snapshot" mindset. That he doesn't see a lot of value in photos, above and beyond snapshots. As such he probably didn't feel that he was ripping you off, but if anything he felt that he was doing family members a favor by giving them a copy of a nice photo, and was doing you a favor by not asking you to go to the bother of making duplicate prints. -- The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to post the wrong answer. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
