okay, sooooo. i know my way around a camera, and that's a known fact at my school. last friday a girl i know from school wrote on my facebook wall something along the lines of " hey i need a favor from you ". shes more of a friend of a friend, and only talks to me when she needs me to do somehting for her. so i said fine, what is it. and she says she needs photos for her college interview. so i'm thinking to myself, okay, whatever i know shes only using me for this but if i have the time i guess its good experience. i agree to accommodate HER schedule, and skip second (the class was canceled but i would have done homework) on the MONDAY and go to the beach downtown. its sooo freezing so we didn't stay long. we then went to a different place in town to a brick wall and did some photos. go the way back to school she was hungry, so we stopped at subway, and then went back to school( i packed a lunch so it was a waste of 15 mins for me). i'm now late for third (which is my lunch but still). so anyways, at lunch she sits with my group of friends and asks to see my camera FIVE times. its a canon 40D with a battery grip and a sigma 17-70. basically a shit ton of money and she wasn't being very careful. shes walking all around the caf showing people and stuff. she then asks for the originals, for me to edit them all and put them on a CD.... oh and she wants me to do it in my next class cause its a computers class. i told her no cause i didn't have the cord (lie, but i needed to do my work for that class) so shes asks me to edit them all, and add the originals, and the edited photos on a CD and she wanted them for the next day. so me, being the pushover i am, did it for her, it took about 1 1/2 hrs from start to finish to edit. so i wrote on her FB wall "i just finished your photos, if you see me in the hall tomorrow don't forget to ask me for them" and she replies with "alright i think you should put one up on facebook so i can see it haha" and i just didn't reply. i was not prepared to put anymore time into it than i already did. so the next day shes standing outside of my first period class to ask me for them. then later i see one on facebook.... and she gave me ZERO credit. i'm so pissed. i went so far out of my way to do this for her the LEAST she could do is be like "photo by olivia" considering it currently has like 30 comments and people are all "this is so nice!!!"

i did not get paid to do this. i would be more than willing to do it for a friend, but i know shes just using me and that she will never help me out if i ever needed something. also, this is the second time this has happened.... last time she took all the photos i took and uploaded them to an album ... it make it look like she took them all.


discuss.

I've had similar situations happen to me quite often. It annoyed me, but I just ignored it. You could always be passive-aggressive and comment on her album saying how much fun it was taking all her pictures for her. And yes, you definitely have the right to be annoyed considering that you went out of your way for her and she doesn't seem to appreciate it much.

Sleep with her BF.

Posted by olive i did not get paid to do this.

I have (had) a friend like this. I would drop her. That kind of person really only uses people. It is also possible that she doesn't know the time and effort involved in such things (like editing). It might not hurt to post on her wall (so it's public ) something like, "Hey would you mind editing the description of your photo album so I get credit for my shots?" You can say it nicely, but that way she gets the hint. In my experience, that type of person is really not very good at picking up subtleties, and you really just have to say it.

Girls can be such bitches.

Posted by snap228 Girls can be such bitches.

+100 thumbs up.

not only does this statement apply to this topic, but in general girls are brats.

Posted by olive not only does this statement apply to this topic, but in general girls are brats.

Oh yes they are. There's a reason most of my friends are guys. And if they're not, they're either tom-boys or explorers.

She's a dumb cunt, yes, that behavior won't get her far in college where people will just tell her to do it herself, true, but you knew all along she was using you and you let her. I mean, did you really expect that kind of a person to give you credit? You are smarter than that, you should have known.

Smart girl, made a fool by some dumb cunt. You can do nothing, or you can approach her and politely tell her to give you credit for your work.

Since this is for college, if she is a cunt about that too, then teach her what the grown up world is like and inform her that theft of photographs is not legal and that she either gives you credit or takes them down and doesn't use them. If she claims that there is no way to prove you took the photos...well we all know photos carry data. I bet she doesn't.

I'm not saying take her to court or anything, I'm just saying it would be funny to scare her a little. : D

Alternative plan: http://www.youtube...dQ&feature=related


Personally, I like the alternative plan best!

Posted by snap228 Oh yes they are. There's a reason most of my friends are guys. And if they're not, they're either tom-boys or explorers.

QFT

okay, sooooo. i know my way around a camera, and that's a known fact at my school. last friday a girl i know from school wrote on my facebook wall something along the lines of " hey i need a favor from you ". shes more of a friend of a friend, and only talks to me when she needs me to do somehting for her

Reading this, red flags popped up in my head right away. Upon further reading:

*It seems you're being too nice; you need to put your foot down sometimes and not be afraid to say no. Especially to those who have a tendency to walk all over others. With time one gets to know who those people are and develops tactful ways of dealing with them.

*Equipment: this is going to sound harsh, but never let others you don't trust handle something valuable or expensive to you. Chances are, if they break it they won't know how much it meant to you or how much it costs. Sure, buddies Freddy or Jaye or Tammy can try it out because they're trusted, but bumbling Bill or bimbo Diana or slutty Suzan in cosmetics class that are probably used to dropping their 5 year old Nikon Coolpix out of their pockets, look and DON'T touch.

*Credit: I've dealt with others who want to use my photos commercially/professionally. (My) Rule number one, credit is always given. (My) Rule number 2, the originals are not to be redistributed or used other than what's agreed upon. The outside exception to this would be if I take a photo of a friend and send it to them, I don't really mind if they use it as their facebook profile photo or such. I guess it's a trust thing.


I agree with Dresden's view. If she wants to be a bitch about it, just say next time don't expect any favours (but I doubt most non-photography people in high school care much about photo copyrights).

Oh well, lesson learned; it seems you knew what you were getting into.

I see she has that whole *I'm a bitch* look to her. Dropkick her in the face and take a photo.

Posted by JBuss I see she has that whole *I'm a bitch* look to her. Dropkick her in the face and take a photo.

She has the same dick sucking moron look on her face in each photo. My alternate plan would fix that. Can attack right in her faaaaaace.

There's a scene in the Luc Besson movie Leon where the bruised Mathilda asks Leon "Is life always this hard, or is it just when you're a kid?" and Leon replies, "Always like this". Life IS hard and the sooner you get acquainted with this, the better. Never suffer fools.

Yes. At her for using you and at yourself for letting yourself get used.

Stick up for herself. Demand that she gives you credit or remove the photos. And if she doesn't remove the photos, if you can, find out who administers the site and tell them these photos were stolen.

If you can post comments on the photos, post on that "It was fun taking them with you. Thanks s-o-o much for not giving me credit where credit is due!"

After that, consider the bank closed. In other words, the next time she approaches you with that "I need a favour" line, tell her forget it.

You'll feel much better about yourself when you don't let yourself get used.

Just my two cents worth.

Her face is pretty funny, huh?

Posted by olive +100 thumbs up. not only does this statement apply to this topic, but in general girls are brats.

Actually, the issue is that girls can have problems saying no and then build up massive resentments for doing stuff they never wanted to do in the first place.

If she had that demeanor after I did her a favor I would have beat her face in with her guitar at the Subway. But then again, I would probably never have done a favor for someone wearing designer ripped jeans and ugg boots that carries around an acoustic guitar that she probably can't play for shit.

Posted by willskith If she had that demeanor after I did her a favor I would have beat her face in with her guitar at the Subway. But then again, I would probably never have done a favor for someone wearing designer ripped jeans and ugg boots that carries around an acoustic guitar that she probably can't play for shit.

... I guess our photoshoot is off now?

Posted by hydrotherapy ... I guess our photoshoot is off now?

Given your track record of self portraits you probably wouldn't be wearing any clothes for the shoot anyways.

Posted by willskith Given your track record of self portraits you probably wouldn't be wearing any clothes for the shoot anyways.

She'll only be wearing ugg boots. And maybe a few shreds of bleached denim here and there. And she won't give you credit on facebook after photoshopping in a velociraptor playing a guitar.