Remove my photo from website....

[Cajungaltx]

Originally Posted by Mindy H

Me? I would take the photo down just so there aren't problems later down the road. As a parent, I would go to great lengths to find justification if I had a photographer that wouldn't take down a photo of my child.

But...what I would do is find another girl....go to that same exact spot and recreate that photo, as exactly as I could and as quickly as I could, then pop that new photo up on my homepage in 2 seconds flat.

This dad obviously thinks that you *need* this photo. If they orginally purchased a print of the photo, I don't think that they are asking you to remove it because of it being too sexy....I think he's doing it because he thinks that you still might owe him something. It would be my silent vindication of showing him that what he thinks can be held over your head can easily be replaced.

(eek...I sound mean, don't I!?!)

You are a genius! HA HA HA HA... that's great! I took it down - didn't figure it was worth the hassle - but wanted to confirm what my options were. If I use it in a flyer at a school... or on a business card... would I get in trouble for it. And apparently not.

The reason it was important to know was because I had a few hundred cards printed out for seniors, and she's on it. I didn't want to reprint them!!!!

[ziffle]

interesting thread....
agree with taking it down for customer service.
You will have the shot and know you can produce the shot.
No need to give any perspective client reason to walk away from you......

Coming from California and having travel the world quite a bit ..... some parents in Texas feel they can control just about everything - including a teenager.

This picture is pretty mild. And yes i'm a proud papi to my daughter.

(note to self: review contract w/ model release section)

Later,
_Mark

[z-monster]

Originally Posted by Mindy H

But...what I would do is find another girl....go to that same exact spot and recreate that photo, as exactly as I could and as quickly as I could, then pop that new photo up on my homepage in 2 seconds flat.

That is EXACTLY what I would do.

[Jeff Lane]

Donna enters the Confessional Booth, and contritely murmurs:

This was one of my first 'paying' clients - and I didn't have her sign a contract unfortunately. Everything was done via email - explaining how it worked - etc.

Tsk, tsk, tsk. Say three "Hail Joe McNally's" and go review your new contract as pennence.

Michaelle offers unhappy but wise advise:

But I echo to move on. Resist the urge "to help her" from her wack-o parents. Eventhough she is 18 right now, I wouldn't contact her for any more shoots until she is fully out of her parents web and independent. Why bring out unnecessary drama and bad WOM if they live within your client base area?

The obstinate hiney-hole part of my personality wants to tell you to sneak around the jackass parents and tell this sweet angel one more time that she's a hottie, and that you'd be proud to display her picture, and that if she'll sign a model release you'll give her a print of the "offending" pic so she can prove hottie-status to her own children later. That would be bad advice on my part, however. AFTER she's out on her own, not in her parents' sphere of evil and darkness, if you happen to run across her, you might say how much you liked working with her and offer to do so again, but beyond that, I'd say this is one of those opportunities to remember a good lesson learned in a bad way.

And be a little bit careful about using the business card. It's amazing how stuff circulates around, and if the parents think they've won by getting you to take down the Web photo, then a year later they get hold of one of your cards from a friend of a friend of a friend, they may think they've beaten you once and will beat you really good this time in a lawsuit. You'd probably win the case if you're willing to spend enough to get it to and through trial and appeal, but I'm willing to bet you've got better use for your hard-earned money than to give it to your lawyer (unless you hire me, in which case it would be money well spent).

[Cajungaltx]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lane

Donna enters the Confessional Booth, and contritely murmurs:
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Say three "Hail Joe McNally's" and go review your new contract as pennence.

Michaelle offers unhappy but wise advise:
The obstinate hiney-hole part of my personality wants to tell you to sneak around the jackass parents and tell this sweet angel one more time that she's a hottie, and that you'd be proud to display her picture, and that if she'll sign a model release you'll give her a print of the "offending" pic so she can prove hottie-status to her own children later. That would be bad advice on my part, however. AFTER she's out on her own, not in her parents' sphere of evil and darkness, if you happen to run across her, you might say how much you liked working with her and offer to do so again, but beyond that, I'd say this is one of those opportunities to remember a good lesson learned in a bad way.

Your such a hilarious guy! ;-)

[toverman]

Jeff, as a lawyer you should know it's "Veni, Vidi, Velcro®." Learned the hard way while back on my college newspaper that you don't want to mess with Velcro®'s Legal Department™. They threatened to Sue Us Into the Stone Age© if we did not cease and desist using that offending Word®.