Reply To: Charging Customers!!!

[fstopper89]

this is slightly off-topic, but Walgreens does ask for a print release and so does Walmart apparently. A few years ago I had a bunch of prints made for the fair I enter in (where color quality isn’t super important; I was going more for convenience at the time) and I had a few portraits. When I picked up the photos i had to speak to the manager because “Release Needed” was scribbled on the envelope. It took some convincing that I shot them. And last year a girl I knlw who now does freelance modeling had some self-portraits she took on her own point-and-shoot with the self-timer printed at Walmart just to give to her husband for fun. She said they weren’t even professional quality by any means but she did some kind of piknik editing to them. Walmart would not give her prints to her and even after she spoke to the manager he apparently discarded the prints in front of her! The employees in that photo lab obviously can’t tell the difference in a pro-quality photo and a selfie from a point-and-shoot, probably due to all the stupid fauxtogs using them to print client photos!