Having seen four-five pages of your images, Brian (but before having seen
Chuck's message) I agree with Chuck.
The first few images are very strong - good idea to have them up front!
Beyond that, sheesh, sheep. And more sheep. Enough already (you get the
idea).
It would be helpful to have some idea of where one is in the collection -
page four of twenty, thirty, sixty??
Providing so many images is asking too much of the client - cut down on the
different treatments of the same image
Lose the weaker images - severely blown highlights on images of snow-capped
mountains are no help to him, or you.
I understand that you probably don't have a firm idea of what he wants. I
reckon that is because he doesn't either - that means the onus is on you to
do the sifting, and present him only with a few of your strongest images. I
only wish that you will be rewarded adequately for the effort involved. And
my fear is that the reward might not be pecuniary!
Piers
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From: olympus
[mailto:olympus-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Chuck Norcutt
Sent: 02 July 2014 14:44
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) Album for a potential business client
These are fine images, Brian, but viewing 102 of them may be a bit much.
I'd suggest you cut them down to 25 or even 10. Try to figure out what he
might really be interested in given his business and then be ruthless in
culling the numbers featuring those you consider best.
I think you use FastStone, right? One of FastStone's most valuable
functions is the ability to compare 2-4 images side-by-side. I see
basically 5 groups of images by subject: sheep, cows, broad landscapes,
landscapes featuring some sort of agricultural product and a smattering of
miscellaneous things. Determine the relevant groupings and then pick
perhaps 2-5 images from each group using side-by-side comparison.
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/2/2014 9:21 AM, bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> Last weekend I had a display of my prints at a local market.
>
> The
> result was, predictably, as usual, no sales.
>
> However I met a lot of
> nice people and my stuff was put in front of a lot of people.
>
> One guy
> from a large country-wide business which service the water side of
> farming here, asked if I had any images suitable for a couple of large
> photos for their showroom/office - I'm not sure which at this point in
> time.
>
> Apart from the ticklish matter of choosing a sale price, which I did
> as he asked me a couple of times, I offered to make a set of images
> available for him to browse; bearing in mind that I had not taken any
> images with HIS purpose in mind.
>
> So I have made a set of web pages for
> him to view.
>
> Here they are if you are interested; most you will not have seen
> before.
>
> With one minor exception they are all sized to 1200 px on the long
> side.
>
> There are 102 I think, and the total download is a bit over 42 MB,
> even though I reduced the file sizes considerably.
>
>
> http://www.brianswale.com/zuikoholics/PGG/
>
> Not a person to be seen
> except for one shot which has 3 in it as far as I remember, and with
> one exception, no urbanisation. This effort took me a few hours ...
>
> I'll
> be interested in what you think, even though I can predict some
> responses :-)
>
> Cheers, Brian
>
>
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