Another design expert

Received another graphic design request for quote:
"Need someone to make changes to two designs. One is a cd label and the other is a certificate.
Basically it just involves replacing a logo with a logo we have already and removing a watermark. Easy work for someone who knows what he is doing and shouldn’t take longer than 30 minutes."

Amazing, he doesn't know how to do it, but he knows how long it will take.

People's Expectations

I received this request for a quote recently:

Product Photography Sterling Silver Jewellery with Semi precious Stones. Approx 500 units @ 4 mins a unit PLUS photoshopping Necklaces, rings, earrings, pendants. Required for internet catologue Needs to be cost effective.

Four minutes per photo! Not going to be top quality at that speed and she wants PhotoShop work done in that time frame as well.  In those four minutes you also have to pick-up the items, unpack them, check and list them, set up the studio. Then because 500 items x 4 mins is 33 hours (4 days) you have to clean -up each day and set-up again each morning.

You have to wonder if this woman know so much about photography that she can nominate how long each shot should take, why isn't she doing the job herself?

I wonder if 'Cost Effective' is applied to the price of her jewellery.

Try to remember

Why do we allow politicians to get away with this stuff.
After WW2 income tax was raised for the purpose of providing an old age pension. Then a few years later,  under PM Robert Menzies this extra tax was put into general revenue, now after paying that extra tax for decades we are treated like thieves for wanting to collect the pension we paid for.
Twenty years ago we had a youth unemployment problem, our politicians solved this by raising the school leaving age and retiring lots of people of 55 years and older. And promised by the end of the century everybody would be retiring at age 60.  As a result we now have a shortage of tradesmen because kids are staying on at school. Plus the cost of funding pensions is too hard because they never put the funds aside so, instead of retiring at 60 years the retirement age is now 67 years.
But of course if you are a politician retiring from parliament, regardless of your age you will collect $100,000 pa pension immediately for the rest of your life even if you take-up another job.