Hey all
Just done my first photo job for a client and looking for advice as to what should be printed on the slides. They are mounted (as requested), should I just stick labels with whats on each slide plus copyright? Any additional info would be appreciated?
One sticker with all your contact information, as well as the standard copyright format (symbol, date, your name, "all rights reserved") on top.
Second sticker with all caption info, - date, location, subject, release info, scientific name of subject if applicable, etc.
Pages of slides need to be accompanied by a Terms and Conditions, which should have been faxed to the customer before you commenced the job, and should have been signed by the customer before you began the shoot. All terms - esp. duration and extent of usage, fee, date of payment, reuse terms - need to be agreed upon before you begin the job.
Once you have the pages of slides, put them on your light table and get a roll of print film and shoot the pages of slides with the print film. Then go to the Library of Congress site and download the PDF for copyright registration. Fill in the form, attach one 4x6 print of each shot and a check for $30 and FedEx or UPS the registration package to the copyright office. Make sure you receive a confirmation of Copyright Office receipt. It will take about 5 months to receive your certificate of registration but the images are considered registered from date of receipt.
Go to http://www.editorialphotographer.com before you ship those originals out to the client. Check out all the forms and download the ones you need, figure out what you needed to have done before you began the shoot and try to do as much of that as possible.
If it was a commercial shoot, look into the forms on the APA site (Advertising Photographers of America).
Good luck. As a general rule you never want to shoot a gig before all terms are agreed. And you never want to shoot a gig which involves a transfer of copyright without being paid very large sums of money.
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