What should someone do about photography pictures already given to client?

Question

I did a photo shoot for my brother and wife and child this weekend. The pictures turned out great. I decided I'd put my logo stamp on it in the corner of the pictures. I did so. I as the photographer and designer don't think the logo looks too big, but my brother did. He wants me to make it smaller. Bad thing I didn't save the original files, because I never do. So i've got the option of cropping out my logo, which will make the pictures smaller or photoshoping my logo out of the picture (which will be harder and take longer). I know next time to save the originals, but honestly that takes up too much of my hardrive space. Also I have my own website where I do other stuff, other than photography, but I'm on dotphoto.com right now for selling my photos, but no one seems to know about the company or buy any of my decent photos. Is there a better company out there that I don't know about? I want people to be able to go to my site and purchase photos or anything else like that with ease. Thanks

Answer 1

Get an external USB drive like a Western Digital Elements 2.5TB for about 100$Can.

In jpeg Fine, that's approx.: 416666 pictures at 6MB / picture or about 119047 pictures in RAW format at 14MP (roughly 20MB / RAW).



At about 700 RAW files per wedding (using weddings as an example since that's what I do), it would take 170 weddings to fill out the hard drive.



Even if you did 30 weddings a year it would take you about 5.5 years to fill that hard drive (saving in RAW).



Also, your situation is another good reason to shoot RAW. :p

Answer 2

Zenfolio is a pretty popular site for showing photos to clients and for print orders. But it is very unlikely that someone is just going to order a print of some random photo. You could try a stock photo site.



You can get an external hard drive for practically nothing. Get one in a price range you can afford and back up original files there. But you really should have at least two copies of your original files, on two different devices just in case. What if the hard drive in your computer crashes? You could lose all your photos, not just your clients', but your personal photos too.



As far as the logo, I wouldn't put one on prints, except maybe on the back, if your printing lab offers this service. Only put your logo, or watermark, on the images uploaded online. And never alter the original files.

Answer 3

A person can file a lawsuit for anything against anyone as long as a judge allows it. You should talk to your lawyer. It's obvious (to me anyway) that she wants the pictures for free and all this other stuff she is doing is being done just to wear you down. She probably has done this sort of thing before and has gotten a lot of free things from people who just want to get rid of the *****. If I were you I'd see if I could find any of the other merchants who have been taken advantage of by this thief. If you can get together, she can file all the lawsuits she wants and she'll never win. You might even be able to get her thrown in jail for fraud and theft.

Answer 4

Wow. Such unprofessional behavior and you want to put your logo on things? Shame shame.





First, you should keep your originals. Always.



Second, the logo is fine for proofs, but you should never have your logo printed on the final product that you give to clients. That is tacky and unprofessional.





If you are trying to sell portraits directly to clients, use Pictage.com. It is the best hands down.



If you want to sell stock and fine art prints, try photoshelter.com.



I use them both with great success.

Answer 5

"Bad thing I didn't save the original files, because I never do."



WHAT?? are you mad?



secondly, you do NOT put your logo on clients pictures. You embed your information in the exif of digital files or stamp your details on the back of prints.