On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 01:56 PM, Jason Butcher wrote:
I can see where Jackie's coming from, but surely it's
down to the photographer to instigate digital issues on this list not the
client. If the client wants digital files let them have digital files -
whether it's shot digitally or conventionally. Leave it up to the
photographer to decide whats best for their work & workflow.
Jason
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?
In fact do we not already have listers working in photo libraries contributing happily to this list? Hopefully any such sensible "client" will go away with a better understanding of real quality and how much more important that is than mere price. And if we exclude them - won't they just get their info and knowledge from less enlightened sources than this list and where would that leave the poor photographer?
It might be a different case if Jackie was only on this list to discover what camera to buy for their house-agents to take "happy" snaps of their properties, but that does not appear to be the case. It seems to me that this is a case of a "client" taking a responsible and constructive approach to going digital.
Whether this or any other client already has the right or wrong appreciation of quality photography is to my mind irrelevant to them deciding to accept/or specify digital images - provided they at least demand a similar quality to that which they currently get on film from their photographers. Of course anything we or anyone else can do to make them appreciate better quality is a plus - but that is a much older battle not exclusive to digital.
My tuppence.
Francis Newman Webshot Ltd
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