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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Don Kuykendall_RIP" data-source="post: 261558" data-attributes="member: 6277">Also we as photographers have to protect our reputations also. I recently shot some photos for a friend of my wife's. There were some great shots and I put them on my site for them to look at. The guy looked at them and asked my wife where the rest of them were. He said I know he shot a lot more photos than that. She explained to him that we always shoot a lot more photos than we use. We pick the best ones and do the post processing on those and that is what we show to the clients. He insisted that he would make that decision and I needed to show him all the photos. I had not charged him any fees up front and was only going to charge him for the actually prints he wanted since he was a friend of my wife. He got rather irate that I would not show him all the photos so I just removed them all. I considered this as protecting my reputation since the photos I did not think were good enough should not be displayed or sold. I had rather make no money than for someone to show photos that I took take I thought were bad. I see post here where people say they knew that photos were not good BUT the customer wanted them anyway. This is never a good idea for you. How many people are going to see those photos with your name attached and think to themselves "Those photos are terrible" You just lost a potential customer or maybe 10 potential customers. Is one customer worth 10? Do not compromise your standards for anyone.</blockquote>

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