On the other hand, there is the photo on my web site titled Dancing Dog Act. The musician came back to me and wanted 10 reprints. Fine I said and quoted him a price twice my cost. I took the negs to the pro lab I had been using, who by the way had done the original D&P 8x10s, When I picked up the prints the toy dog had been cut half off.
I calmly explained that this was part of the guys act that he used to entertain children in the hospital and the toy had to be in the picture. They told me it was my fault because I used an old camera, that nobody else used that big negative (6x9), that I didn't tell them it was an important part of the picture needed to be in the print, and that I would have to pay for the remakes because they weren't going to take the hit on 10 prints (they charge about 3 times as much for a reprint as a D&P). I paid. I made nothing on the reprints in fact lost the price of the folders. They never have gotten another job from me. Anytime someone has mentioned them to me, I have said that they were unreliable and unprofessional. They probably lost the business of quite a few customers because of that. But, by god, they didn't have to take the hit for their not exactly subtle mistake. Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ---------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: David Chang-Sang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 5:09 PM Subject: RE: O T Venting anger with chain store > That's the sad part about all of this; the terms used to describe what we, > as customers, want or expect out of the operators/store owners/staff is very > subjective at best. "A bit" to me may be "a whole lot" to someone else; > especially if I admit to having an untrained eye at some things. > > It's too bad we can't give exact measurments for such things. Being off an > entire color as per Brendan's lady bug is one thing, but not bringing out > detail in a non-descript sweater is something else. > > I guess we're stuck dealing with using subjective judgement; much like, oh, > say; a figure skating judge. > > Cheers, > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aaron Reynolds > Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 3:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: O T Venting anger with chain store > > <snip> > Had he said from the outset that he didn't care > how unrealistic it looked and that he wanted the black sweater to be > lighter than the pale skin of the subject and to vanish into the > background, well, I would have been able to nail it pretty easily. But > instead, he simply told me to lighten it "a bit". > </snip> > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
