Ok folks, Here's the scenario.
I shot a number of baby pics about 3-4 months ago for a young mother and her husband. I know them via her (the young mother's) mother-in-law. I fired off about 24 color 6x6's and 36 B&W and 24 Color 35mm shots. I did a lot because the kids were super fidgety - one, the young girl, is just past two years old and the son is just over 3 months old. Needless to say it was hard for them to sit reasonably still for any length of time. Anyway, I handed over the proofs and waited till they were ready to order prints. I figured I got about 6-8 decent photos out of all the shots I took - mainly due to trying to maintain the kids attention :-) The kicker was, that the mother-in-law has been dealing with me and she said that her daughter-in-law (i.e. the mother of the kids) didn't like ANY of the photos. That was fine, I could deal with that but she added a comment that struck me as interesting. She said that in the future, if I'm going to give proofs back to clients, I should only hand them the "good" photos and toss out all the bad ones. My question to all of you: How do YOU handle your proofs when handing them back to clients? Do you sort and only hand the good ones back or do you give them the whole 9 yards so they know you're not holding anything back? I'm curious as this is sort of "new" per se to me. Gracias, Dave
