> Dear Jason > > Some of us work in a wonderful world where clients don't exist. > > There seems to be a general trend on the Prodig group to be rude and > disparaging about any view that differs from the evangelical wing of > the "Photographers are always right" Party.
on 30/7/03 14:36, francis newman wrote: > But on the other hand there has been endless discussion on this list on > the rights and wrongs of clients setting this or that requirement for > the files submitted to them. So is it not preferable that when a > "client" appears on this list, that we help point them in the right > direction as to what they should be requiring from their photographers? Dear Bob, Francis I was not being rude or otherwise.There have been a couple of threads recently which have shown clients stating some oddly based rules & regs for digital images re:'6 mega pixels not enough?' and 'strange advice'. You're right I suppose that they are asking, but I find it a bit odd that they are asking about cost of gear when I thought would it not be better to ask their current photographers to supply images suitable for the output required, and how they would go about doing that. I'm sure we all know our own type of work better than others. What sense is there in throwing a cost based on a system that they probably have no idea what it is or what else it might be capable of. Many others listees have replied to this with varying estimates of cost from �1000 - �25000. I think they are all right as I think we would all go about a job differently to each other, and by no means is that limited to the type of gear we would each use. I didn't reply to Jackie's original post as I thought the information supplied was a bit thin on the ground. Too many assumptions to make, as has been shown in the diversity of the replies to date. Is Jackie any further forward now that she knows a price range? on 30/7/03 15:01, Bob Croxford wrote: I can see Jackie loving the > idea of fifty different freelance photographers submitting fifty > variations of file type, colour space, file size, interpolation method > and delivery media. How many different submissions of types of gear have come from this list? In any case so what if each photographer submitted image files differently. I don't think anyone that's handling the printing of this 'level' of clients work would have a problem with changing a Tiff to an EPS, or Adobe to Colormatch, or file size to fit the output size (as long as it matches or exceeds size & quality as set by client), or CD, DVD, email or ISDN or whatever - it's what we (photographers & repro etc) do all the time. Interpolation method..? - it would be up to the photographer to choose best gear for job to reach the quality required by the client. Perhaps that's why we all choose different companies to handle work for us, as we all get to know the differences in quality that they produce. I think we're getting away from the point. All I tried to add in reply to Mike Russell's and ultimately Steve Climpson's post, is I believe the photographer should be making these professional choices - not the client. We sell photography, they sell - well in this case houses. Jason =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
