The Brads - Doesn’t Exist
January 4th, 2010
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Peter Gasston
January 4, 2010 at 1:00 pmHa ha! Very true!
I once worked with a client that was ridiculously specific about their website photography; for one job we had to look for a forest clearing with a clear stream rolling over round rocks, some green shoots pushing up through the ground between mature trees, and the sunlight breaking through the canopy! Even with extensive photoshopping we still couldn’t get it the way they wanted.
Beth
January 4, 2010 at 1:00 pmOmg, you need a comic about the inverse of this, TERRIBLE client provided photos.
Josh Walsh
January 4, 2010 at 1:00 pmSomeone’s been reading Clients from Hell again
Jillian
January 4, 2010 at 1:00 pmI agree with Beth, I had a client once email me a blurry picture of a tent that he got from Google Images, and asked me to put that on his corporate business website because their slogan was something like, they’ll get you home on time so that you can sleep well at night. In a blurry tent, apparently? No joke. Thing didn’t work out with that one.
Nan
January 4, 2010 at 1:00 pmI cant believe how true this is. Once I had a client who sells “light” products, every time they wanted a picture we had to struggle because normal people looked too fat!
Jill, I understand you….. I actually have a collection of extremely ugly pics clients ask us to use, its funny when you see them all together…
Brad C
January 5, 2010 at 1:00 pm@adam: I used to have a line like that: A young girl with tourrettes, eating a hotdog while standing in a snowdrift…
@Eric: THAT is the exact inspiration for this comic. Even if you found that pic you would end up Photoshopping out wine glasses.
@Jillian, Beth, Nan: I might have to o a reverse of this sometime.
Eric Browning
January 5, 2010 at 1:00 pmI’m sure you still have nightmares about finding things like “a family (mom, dad, at least 2 kids) eating dinner, in winter but not Christmas, using jelly prominently”
Adam Wagner
January 5, 2010 at 1:00 pmHaha, Yes.
At Go Media, Bill Beachy’s favorite description of wild client ideas goes something like: “...and there’s a whale steering a pirate ship that’s got the earth in it’s mouth - except it’s on the earth too - and…”
Daniel Groves
January 6, 2010 at 1:00 pmSo true! So many times I have been asked to do this!
Liviu
March 3, 2010 at 1:00 pmStarting from now, maybe somebody should create these stock photos based on ideas like that
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