Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I hate showing contacts to clients!!. It reduces me, the photographer to the status of hovering 3 D copier. "Shoot the thing from every single angle and we'll figure out which shot inadvertently came out with some class." is the quote in effect. Some of the very high end people are able to circumvent this and just show the client some selected proofs. I've been able to pull this off on occasion myself. Especially with slides. I never have them numbered for partially that reason. They see 8; the see 10 they wanna know what happened to 9. I bring in a page or even a half page of slides and they can often be happy. It's not what you shoot but what gets printed that counts!!!!!. They inevitability pick out some inane shot and then they make sure my name appears on it. It's not my fault I didn't do it! They made me do it! They never believe me. I wasn't there when I shot that! I don't recall shooting that! Where they got that from I'll never know!!! All excuses for loosing control of your work. Showing contacts are like hanging up your dirty underwear outside before you put them through the wash. Mark Rabiner