patooyee
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I want to see if I am way off base here.
My wife has professional pics done of my daughter a few times/yr. I love them, they turn out great, she uses 2 different photographers. But the way the pics are sold I feel like is borderline illegal. Here's the way it works:
- You pay hundreds of dollars for a photo session.
- Photographer takes 100+ pics.
- A few weeks after the session the photographer gives you a pw to a website where all the pics are posted with watermarks over them for preview.
- You get to pick 5 - 20 that they will give you un-watermarked digital copies of. If you want more than that you have to pay like $20/pic. You don't get them all. The ones you don't take just sit on the photographer's hard drive until they feel like formatting it someday.
- You are not allowed to post the pics your purchase on social media. If you do the photographer asks you to kindly remove them or face a lawsuit.
- If you DO want to post anything on social media you can ask for versions with the photographer's logo on them. But you don't get unlimited requests for these, just as many as the photographer feels like giving or not giving to you.
- Photographer plasters photos of my daughter across ALL of her social media sites to promote her company.
Reasons I feel like this is BS:
- I pay hundreds of dollars for a photo session and get a measly 5-20 pics out of it.
- OK, so the point above sucks, but you would think those pics are mine to do with as I please. IE, share via G+ with my family. How does the photographer maintain any rights to items that I purchase? That's like McDonalds maintaining the right to ask for my burger back at any time!
- By the photographer plastering all the pics all over her social media I am basically paying for her advertisement.
- Not to mention, don't I retain the rights to my daughter's likeness? Especially since she is a minor? I mean, you can't just go on the net, download some pics of Michael Jordan and use them to promote your business. MJ would sue the pants off of you if you did.
This whole situation is ****ing backwards to me. To me it is the photographer that should have to ask me for permission to post, not the other way around. Maybe Ricky B can make me understand this ...
I told my wife we're never using these two photographers again, find one that hands over all pics to us when we're done. She says none of them do that, they're all like these two.
My wife has professional pics done of my daughter a few times/yr. I love them, they turn out great, she uses 2 different photographers. But the way the pics are sold I feel like is borderline illegal. Here's the way it works:
- You pay hundreds of dollars for a photo session.
- Photographer takes 100+ pics.
- A few weeks after the session the photographer gives you a pw to a website where all the pics are posted with watermarks over them for preview.
- You get to pick 5 - 20 that they will give you un-watermarked digital copies of. If you want more than that you have to pay like $20/pic. You don't get them all. The ones you don't take just sit on the photographer's hard drive until they feel like formatting it someday.
- You are not allowed to post the pics your purchase on social media. If you do the photographer asks you to kindly remove them or face a lawsuit.
- If you DO want to post anything on social media you can ask for versions with the photographer's logo on them. But you don't get unlimited requests for these, just as many as the photographer feels like giving or not giving to you.
- Photographer plasters photos of my daughter across ALL of her social media sites to promote her company.
Reasons I feel like this is BS:
- I pay hundreds of dollars for a photo session and get a measly 5-20 pics out of it.
- OK, so the point above sucks, but you would think those pics are mine to do with as I please. IE, share via G+ with my family. How does the photographer maintain any rights to items that I purchase? That's like McDonalds maintaining the right to ask for my burger back at any time!
- By the photographer plastering all the pics all over her social media I am basically paying for her advertisement.
- Not to mention, don't I retain the rights to my daughter's likeness? Especially since she is a minor? I mean, you can't just go on the net, download some pics of Michael Jordan and use them to promote your business. MJ would sue the pants off of you if you did.
This whole situation is ****ing backwards to me. To me it is the photographer that should have to ask me for permission to post, not the other way around. Maybe Ricky B can make me understand this ...
I told my wife we're never using these two photographers again, find one that hands over all pics to us when we're done. She says none of them do that, they're all like these two.