Customer Finally Sees The Light

It's been a long term problem for me and my customers, they buy a photo, actually it's usually a series of photos, I get paid, then they decide the photo is so great, so beautiful and so wonderful will use it for their marketing piece and sell millions of dollars.

I come back to them to ask for more money and now they are not so happy with the photo. The photo is not worth 2 cents, it's a piece of shit. How could I do such a bad photo, and con them in buying and using it? Now that I want to be paid more?

I usually try to explain usage, rights... all the usual blah blah but it doesn't register.

In a stroke of genius, I'm sure other photographers must have said something very similar, I compared my photos to magazines.

You go and buy a magazine, you read it and you can leave it on the table for somebody else to read it. You can't go back to the store and pickup all the copies of that magazine without paying because you bought one copy. It's the same for my photos.

Elaine, kept quiet for a few seconds, I saw that she suddenly realized what I was trying to explain.