[Rufus]

Cant make up his mind.................. Do this, do that, do it now, do it yesterday, dont do it, how much? How much! Ok I wont, oh yes I will, please do, please dont.... :x :x :x :x

All this because I posted a thread on fixing eyes. All this!! Gaaa!!! Is there no peace??
Curses!!!


Clunk.



Ok, I'm alright now.

Thanks for listening.

[Rufus]

By way of explanation, (now I've calmed down).

A few months back, I posted my "fixing the brides eyes" pictures.
As a result of this, I was contacted by a gentleman with "20 or so" shut-eye wedding images to fix.
Well, the 20 was 55, and all files were Sony 828 .SRF and VERY poor.
The customer was the groom, and not, as I had first thought, the photographer.
He wouldnt sue the idiot who screwed up the pictures, but was fobbed off with the RAW files. Not good.
Anyway, to cut a VERY long story short, he and I dont quite "hit it off."
He seems to keep aking for the impossible at the cheapest possible rates. I offered under £10 per print, and he baulked at it. The images, (in the worst cases), were taking hours each to do. I worked for 27 hours last weekend, and still it was unsuitable due to the festerin crop size!!!!! I mean, he said "a half inch border", so I made "a half inch border." Then he said "NO! A quarter each side!!!"
Finally I gave in, tonight...... I found a pro retoucher in the UK, asked him if he'd do it, Emailed my customer for the right to transfer his files elsewhere, and sat and wrote this post.
:o

[matthew]

all files were Sony 828 .SRF and VERY poor.

So THAT'S what that was about!

[slejhamer]

Finally I gave in, tonight...... I found a pro retoucher in the UK, asked him if he'd do it, Emailed my customer for the right to transfer his files elsewhere, and sat and wrote this post.
:o

Short of refusing the business in the first place (never give in on price when the customer is demanding - your services are worth a premium, not a discount!!!), you did the right thing by passing it on to someone else.

[Rufus]

Thanks Slej........ I have worried myself bald over it.

[shuttertalk]

Ah, the penny drops... (oops, bad pun)

Sometimes it's worth offering a discount for the potential of future business by way of word of mouth from happy clients... and sometimes it's not.

From the way things sound, I think this case falls into the latter category ... good call on your part, methinks.