Comments on: Are You Offering Your Brides This Service?

By: Stephanie Uptmor

Stephanie Uptmor — Sun, 06 May 2012 13:32:26 +0000

Have the bride & groom select the images…just hope all the images have different jpg numbers!

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 04 May 2012 16:22:31 +0000

John, I think copyright is a non-issue. You can take care of that with a sentence on the upload page or a table card that read “by uploading images, you are giving permission to XYZ Studio to make prints or products for the bridal couple. You will not receive any royalties or payment for your images.”

You could manage the quality issue by making it clear that the album uses guest images, not yours. Or you can make the second album a coffee table book to differentiate it from the “real” album. You’re offering a new service, not photography.

It seems to me that if it were successfully implemented, sifting through a thousand extra images is the real problem. Without trying it once, my guess is it would cost you at least as much to produce in the studio as the “real” album.

By: John Wiley

John Wiley — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:31:03 +0000

This sounds good on paper but could easily turn into a “cluster” when one considers the copyright implications. And wading thru tons of crap images to find a few “album worthy” ones is more of a time investment than most shooters I know might want to make. Like it or not, your name will be associated with the final product. And when people see what they peceive to be your “minimum quality standard for what can go into an album”, then the logical question will be, “Why should we hire you if all these other people’s work is ‘acceptable’ in your eyes”?

The likely overall ROI and potential for “backfire” just doesn’t make this seem very appealing. YMMV.

By: tammy

tammy — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:09:56 +0000

I like it.