Your right. You never know what a customer is going to like but you don't want anything but your best work out there. I am already running into this and I barely started my business. I did a shoot and without warning the client was using them on their blog. Luckily they were some of my best but what if they weren't. I found the rule of thumb is if it's not your best don't let the public see it with your watermark. If the client really likes a shot you don't let it go, who cares. If they wanted a snapshot they got it.
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Originally Posted by chalkie7
lol...just going through this dilemma myself too. I had a studio day a few weeks ago with 8 clients booked in. Rather than expecting them to choose on the day (which I had done before - not a good idea!), I decided to upload a selection of the shots to a client-only area of my web-site. I uploaded between 40 and 60 shots per client. Then 5 of them asked if they could see even more from the shoot, so I obliged by supplying them with re-sized / watermarked pictures on cd. This had several affects:-
1) i think i sold more from some of the sessions than I would have, as the clients did pick some shots that were not real winners in my eyes.
2) several of these shots appeared on social networking sites within hours without my consent!
3) it certainly slowed the whole process down....3 weeks on and I have 2 of the clients still to make their final selection.
I'm still looking for the right balance!
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