I'm with Paul on this. Quite some time back, I came to feel that the world in general no longer assigns any value to the physical print. Probably for a variety of reasons including, ease of duplication, display techniques (web, digital frames, etc.) and the already mentioned mindset of the snapshot/memory maker.
Because of that, anytime I am dealing with a paying client, I put all the money to be made into the service of producing the photo, rather than loading the cost into the prints themselves. This way, no matter what they might do about prints (none-digital file,few,lots) I have made my money. So in this case, as has already been stated, be flattered that he thought it was good enough to copy and distribute. You might want to contact him and let him know that you could provide the original digital file from which much better prints could be made. Chances are that no one who received a print will care about the quality - including the Father-In-Law. -- Best regards, Bruce Thursday, May 14, 2009, 3:22:18 AM, you wrote: ps> I might be slightly annoyed, but I would pretend not to care. It's not ps> worthing losing a friend over a print. ps> Most people don't understand that to a serious photographer, that ps> print is more than just a picture. We consider it personal art. But to ps> most non-photographers, it's just a picture, same as you take ps> yourself, only nicer and larger. Don't say anything. Be pleased that ps> the father-in-law liked it enough to want to make copies. ps> Actually, the more I think about it, I might be flattered if that ps> happened to me. ps> Paul ps> On May 14, 2009, at 12:51 AM, 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? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> Cheers, Christine >> >> >> -- >> 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. ps> -- ps> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List ps> [email protected] ps> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net ps> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- 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.
