John Miller placed an ad looking for a female model for TFP (time for print) on a local casting website. His work was only commercial products at the time, so I thought this might be a great opportunity to work with an up and coming photographer. Time for print means you receive images after your photoshoot usually edited, instead of payment. Most cases both the photographer and model use the images solely for self promotion, ie their own websites, blogs, etc.
After the photoshoot - for which I showed up to his chosen location on time, with me providing my full wardrobe, hair and makeup on my own and shot for over 2 hours, john said I could only have four edited images. I was confused and disappointed that he wasn't going to give me a whole CD of all images (as most photograhers do) and I expressed this to him.
He got very angry and rude and unprofessional in response and said he was no longer going to give me any images at all!!!
He proceeded to put a few images up on his own blog. At this point, it is months after I shot and I wanted my headshots so contacted some of my photographer friends who were very upset this happened to me and one was nice enough to somehow get the images from John's blog in the very low res that could only be used for web.
I continued to try to email John with no response until I put those images on my myspace page. Which he got deleted by saying I had no right to use them! This was the final email conversation with John - I have not edited/altered it in any way.
Megan Elizabeth wrote:
Hi John,
I just got the message from myspace of deletion and I just thought I'd drop a hello. I really like those headshots you took, and I'd like to be able to use them especially since that was our agreement and the whole point to shooting. I don't want to argue or make you upset by using them, but it would be great to have them as you promised.
I know there was that huge misunderstanding regarding the other images, but I am curious as to why we can't come to a compromise now? I would love to just have the four edited ones and part with no hard feelings. I'm sorry for any stress this may have caused you.
-Megan
Response:
From: [email protected]
To:
Subject: Re: Headshots and such
Megan,
I have done more than my fair share of attempts to come to terms with you, but clearly your defiant use of the images gives me no reason to believe that we can come to any good faith agreement. To that end, I am no longer offering the photos under those terms. If you wish to use them for your book, I would be willing to provide all the full-res images if compensated my standard headshot rates. There is nothing further to discuss beyond that.
-John
It is clear this person cannot be trusted by their word or written/spoken contract. I have never received any images for my time and effort from a photoshoot.in my biggest opinion, I feel that this person is a scam artist who is trying to get people to pay him for projects. If you hire him for anything - weddings, engagments, etc I would be very careful as I can see him telling you one thing at your consultation and then another after he has shot your wedding and demanding more money for your photos!
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