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Photo purchasing help/information
I have to quote on an illuminated menu sign for a customer who wants specific types of fish pictures ie Cod, Haddock, Place etc. I have not got anything suitable in my collection to use. Can anyone tell me about buying in the pictures, something I haven’t had the need to do before. Do you buy the picture to size and print yourself or do they send you the print or transparency ready to use at the required size?
And to save me some homework can anyone tell me roughly how much each image is so I can quote without wasting my time looking at half a dozen sites doing price comparisons just for the bloke to say its to expensive 🙄
Thanks in advance. 😀
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6 Replies
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Hi Mike,
These advertise on this site and seem to have a good selection.
http://www.jancoimages.com/
Prices are on a scale the higher the res the dearer the cost. Looking at that site they are between £5.50-£21.40.Steve
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Hi Mike
I hate this situation.
We get people asking a cup of coffee photo, then when we show them they ask us to make the cup fuller, not half drunk….
They see photos of meals and they say my meal doesn`t have 3 sausages on it, can we remove 1…
I suggest that they prepare the meals they want photos of and I will take the photos, they ask me if I will be paying for the prepared meals…
Sorry, its my pet hate with fast food customers.. LOL
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I agree with Denise.
At the end of the day, it should be their food being pictured. No good you adding a picture of salmon drizzled in parsley sauce with new potatoes if they only sell fish portions and mash.
Suggest that the customer, who will ultimately be the one judging the menu and it’s relevance, should really be seeing pictures of what they will actually be receiving, and enjoy the free lunch :lol1:
For them to be pleased with the finished menu board, and it to ‘sell’ a better range of their items, accurate quality pictures of their own goods should become obvious to them. You would think.
Nothing annoys me more than going into a fast food place with no idea of what I want, to then be teased by pictures of food that they don’t actually serve.
It’s food for thought.
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Thanks for your replies guys n gal.
Daniel & Denise, I think your right there, will tell the customer to take his own pics, saves a lot of grief and can give him a simple sq meter price.Cheers
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I point the customer in the direction of the online libraries.
I explain that they have a collection of 10,000’s of images and that I will charge £xx per hour to do so… with no assurances they will like the image.
I let them do the leg work, explain that we have accounts with the sites we have given them, and if they wish, they can send us the image reference and we will purchase it for them.
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It’s a needle in a haystack. For the first time I’m trying to help a regular customer find a photo. I wish I had never offered. I’ve wasted too much time and still haven’t found what he wants all my suggestions "are not quite right"……………………never again
The BAPLA website list many suppliers of images try this link, but it’ll give you more problems than answers ie too many websites offering image services!!
http://www.bapla.org.uk/index.php?optio … &Itemid=45
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