Author Topic: Make sure you have an out of focus child front centre of your photo (Read 3509 times)

ShadySue · « **on:** September 05, 2012, 19:50 »

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/08/21/this-photograph-earned-one-wedding-photographer-a-18000-payday/#more-70350

EmberMike · « **Reply #1 on:** September 05, 2012, 19:58 »

Rejected.

Focus. Your image is not in focus or focus is not located where we feel it works best.

ruxpriencdiam · « **Reply #2 on:** September 05, 2012, 20:54 »

ShadySue · « **Reply #3 on:** September 06, 2012, 06:20 »

I've been trying to find how the pic was used in the advert. The bit with the dad (?) kissing the bride is lovely and they may have cropped tightly into that.

I'd love to know how the pharma company found the photo. I'd never have kept that image in that form (and would have wanted to strangle the kid for wandering into the pic!). I might have used the crop on my (hypothetical) website.

Maybe it's just an underlining of the truism are that ms 'standards' are not relevant to all end users.

BaldricksTrousers · « **Reply #4 on:** September 06, 2012, 06:27 »

Some people seem to doubt the veracity of the story....

ShadySue · « **Reply #5 on:** September 06, 2012, 12:31 »

The originator of the story is still saying it's true, but that the child's head was retouched out.
http://photographersbusinesscoach.com/2012/08/23/the-18000-correction-the-27000-wedding-photo-followup

Still begs the question as to why the tog apparently chose to show the complete image somewhere.

(Astonished that allegedly most brides would apparently accept "$50-$100" to allow their wedding photo to be used commercially. I guess the US is a totally different planet.)

tab62 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 06, 2012, 12:37 »

just shows us that you never know what will go on to be a great seller! Maybe the young child is in the future of the bride thus a story.

ShadySue · « **Reply #7 on:** September 06, 2012, 12:48 »

Quote from: tab62 on September 06, 2012, 12:37

Maybe the young child is in the future of the bride thus a story.

Like a sort-of prescience of a ghost?

tab62 · « **Reply #8 on:** September 06, 2012, 12:51 »

exactly!

tab62 · « **Reply #9 on:** September 06, 2012, 13:36 »

or the kid from 'Six Sense' working on part II Movie

vonkara · « **Reply #10 on:** September 06, 2012, 15:53 »

After learning that the image would be used in a series of medical industry ads, both in print and online, and that the agency was asking for exclusive use, Mireles advised Ayres to ask for $15,000.

Not only did the agency find that price reasonable, but they even asked to increase it for better terms. The two sides ended up agreeing on an $18,000 contract for two years of exclusive and unlimited national use in the medical industry.

And it's offered free with a bad watermark on a public blog

Microbius · « **Reply #11 on:** September 07, 2012, 02:00 »

Don't have a problem with this at all. It seems it was the perfect image for their campaign. I can see why, looks real, good concept for medical insurance or similar. The bride is hugging her dad, he's there to see his daughter get married because he has taken care of his health or gotten that expensive medical treatment. Doesn't look posed or too "stocky". The blog entry post that was linked to actually pins it down pretty well: http://photographersbusinesscoach.com/2012/08/23/the-18000-correction-the-27000-wedding-photo-followup/

The photo is easily worth the money to the medical company, it's a drop in the ocean for them. The bride was compensated, the photographer may even have given her a percentage cut, we don't know. The $50-$100 suggested figure isn't from the actual photographer in this instance.

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