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msfoxymax

snappybadger wrote: »

As with any crime ignorance of the law is no excuse!

As I said before most photography businesses are run by sole traders trying to make a living for themselves and their family. £50 for a couple of prints might sound a lot but the work involved is more than "just 5 minutes" as you said above. Not to mention all the overheads associated with running a high street studio.

I'm sure you knew the prices before you bought the prints and no-one forced you to buy them anyway. By all means don't use a professional in the future...good luck with that...mind you if you don't notice the difference between a photo of a photo and the real thing I'm sure you'll be happy with your own results! :rotfl:

Depends on how good a photographer is. Some 'professional' photographers pics are awful. I think the unposed pics are better than the expensive 'staged' ones any day. Good luck with your business BTW you sound like a lovely person who people would feel relaxed around and want to spend lots of money with :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

snappybadger

msfoxymax wrote: »

Depends on how good a photographer is. Some 'professional' photographers pics are awful. I think the unposed pics are better than the expensive 'staged' ones any day. Good luck with your business BTW you sound like a lovely person who people would feel relaxed around and want to spend lots of money with :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Not sure what photographers you've been looking at who do expensive "staged" picture and cheap "unposed one"...never heard of that way of working before.

Thank you for your concerns about my business msfoxymax but it's doing very well thanks. But then again I don't do portraits. Mainly because of people like yourself and others on this thread who quite clearly don't value photography! And you've summed me up perfectly...which is amazing considering you don't even know me!

7roland8

Well I do a bit on the web so have looked into copyright issues a little but I would say a lot of people just assume once they have bought a photograph that it is theirs and would not think of copyright at all. Likewise with images on postcards etc. Its not something the general public would give a second thought to.

Gleek

A little unrelated, but my local Asda are selling off their Christmas photo gifts - all reduced to a pound. There were photoframe snowflakes, snow globes, post cards, christmas cards etc. Hopefully others are too.

Tamster150

another alternative is to find a photographer who will sell you a CD of the images including permission to reproduce.

This is what we do - a photo shoot at home and around 100 images on a CD for £50

I am also registered with the all the main photo sites, truprint, photobox etc & make sure that I get their regular emails with discount codes. Just got some half price calendars and photo mugs for gifts. I tend to not print photos anymore, but have them made up into photobooks. I leave my books saved online until they go on special offer.

MaggieBaking

I'm not a photographer but I wouldn't be happy to buy very expensive prints.

When we had our wedding photos done we paid the photographer a sum and for that got all the prints on a CD for us to use, print and distribute as we wish.

£50 for time, venue, equipment, skill and aftercare work (editing, selecting etc etc) is not expensive- they will make their wages from prints, not masses of profit to go and buy a porche.

Also involved in that would be an amount needed to cover their living wage - time spent waiting for appointments etc. They aren't going to be on an hourly rate and if they had 4 sessions each day, at £50 a session, 5 days a week - excluding time off holidays, sickness etc their wage would only be £13k per year, not including overheads.

As someone else has said, a copy of a print is not going to be good quality, so I wouldn't feel too guilty for distributing it a couple of times. But I wouldn't brag about it, and neither would I say it's a rip-off in the first place.

I would do as Tamster says above and agree upfront with what you want from a photographer and what you need and arrange a price to suit.

msfoxymax

snappybadger wrote: »

Not sure what photographers you've been looking at who do expensive "staged" picture and cheap "unposed one"...never heard of that way of working before.

Thank you for your concerns about my business msfoxymax but it's doing very well thanks. But then again I don't do portraits. Mainly because of people like yourself and others on this thread who quite clearly don't value photography! And you've summed me up perfectly...which is amazing considering you don't even know me!

I do value photography (my dad is a wildlife and landscape photographer) just not the sometimes extortionate prices that some people charge. I'm glad i summed you up perfectly, well done me :T

my3girls

I definitely agree with snappy on this one.

I don't think people realise the hard work that goes into photography. It really isn't as simple as point, shoot, print.

There's a lot of behind the scenes work for photos getting them just right, and the correct formatting, cropping, pixels, quality of print etc etc

And that's after spending an age setting up the mucho expensive equipment, backgrounds, lighting, props and getting the little 'darlings' to behave to get the right shot. It can be stressful, as well as enjoyable.

When you look at the amount of work and talent put in then I don't think £50 is excessive,Although perhaps a nationwide chain are more for profit than an independent. I do agree however that photographing the image, as well as encouraging others to do it, is wrong. You wouldn't photocopy a Picasso!

Even school photographs clearly state you can't copy or distribute without consent.