They tell me they are very happy with the images and the files and I do not use Apple monitors.

You are very presumptuous, you say you know nothing of my work or me but presume to correct.

Don't you find something wrong with that?

I'm an architectural photographer the images are reproduced in very high quality publications in the U.S. Europe, Japan and on occasion in Africa. OK so you had an international client, so what where were they parties you work for located over seas or around the corner.

Do you really think that 30 or 40 entities in all these places are correcting my images and getting consistent results because the files are so dark that they are unusable.

You are telling me my business without as you say actually even knowing what I do.

You can't really expect that your perception about something you have no knowledge of could be correct based on your own experience which may or may not relate to what I do?

How could yopuy possibly correct someone without knowing what they do or have done.

Just because you had a bad experience doesn't mean it is my problem, it is or was your problem. I'm happy for you if you found a solution, bless you.

BTW my work appears in books magazines brochures posters website exhibits etc. They are handled by many people and I have no control over what they do with them but they are consistent reproduced.

In the case of Ann she is the only one that deals with the images she does not distribute her work to third parties so her consistency is dependent on her consistency and not necessarily the consistency and accuracy of her method. She is basically the only one that has to be happy. And her clients rely on her judgement.

I contribute to an online publication regularly and though in this case I am basically helping them build their reputation and credential I have found that about 2/3 of the time the professionals who work I have photographed, in this case architects will purchase the images or other publications will contact me to do work for them. I think if they thought the images were too dark they would not react this way.

Ann for instance is concerned about marketing and advertising requirements not necessarily about accuracy. She once adjusted an image I posted of Grand Central Station that made the space look very bright, California sunshine bright. When I pointed out that Grand Central Station is not bright everyone claimed that was not important, to them if it were not a certain level sparkling sunny then it was not properly exposed.

Ann agreed that Grand Central Station was not real bright but that it was a question again of marketing requirements even though I had no marketing requirements to address. I was concern in capturing the ambience and nature of the place.

Everyone else who read the tread insisted that this was wrong you have to make the subject something it is not in order to be successful at photography.

My clients are very happy and really love the work and look forward to working with me all the time and the publications i contribute to love it as well so I guess that is the bottom line.

And I am glad you have overcome your problems, so more success to you. And I hope one day Ann will not have to concern herself about Modern Marketing requirements and leave the color be. That is a very interesting color on the golden gate bridge I did not know that it had ever been painted vermillion.

Gareth_Walker

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