[pure-silver] Re: Portfolio suggestions
- From: "Stein" <rstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:10:41 +0800
Dear Justin,
Whenever I present any treatment idea to a patient - and this is
analogous to the presentation of the image work that you are thinking
bout - I find that there are 3 situations:
1. The patient really wants the idea and wants it now. This is most
noticeable with acute abscesses - you can make a friend for life with a
No.22 Swann Morton and a deft touch. If your client wants and needs your
pictures NOW you can leave nearly anything that will give the basic visual
idea and they will accept it.
2. The patient doesn't know what he wants. Here you have to patiently
explain the problem and all the possible alternatives and make the best
possible case for the proposed treatment. For you, your visual client needs
tickling - and here I think you are going to have to do what Ralph Lambrecht
says and give a first-class presentation. The very fact that you have
obviously put a great deal of effort into the form as well as the content is
a compliment to the client and might turn the decision in your favour.
3. The patient doesn't want it and isn't going to want it and is going
to take a perverse pleasure in making this fact known to you. Here I have
the luxury of politely declining further treatment or the equally delightful
ploy of referring the patient to a specialist. In some cases I have been
able to match a miserable patient with a horrid specialist and watch them
disappear over the professional horizon clawing at each other. Joy.
If you really do have a horror client don't leave your best work to be
torn to pieces or copied and diluted. Give 'em a series of inkjets in a
paper folder and a hearty handshake and go onto better pastures.
Uncle Dick
PS: I never present my picture work for approval. They get what I give 'em
and are grateful that it is no worse.
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