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What Would You Do?

hayefield
20 years ago

Consider this hypothetical situation, if you will...

You've been asked to write a year's worth of 1-page columns for a bimonthly gardening magazine. You are offered a modest rate for the text, with the option of submitting photos to accompany the articles for additional payment. When you receive the layout for your first column (with captions in place, but not photos) for review, you're pleased to find that the editor has given you two pages instead of one, and he has chosen five of your photographs; that means you'll be receiving more than twice the payment you expected. So far, so good.

But...when the publication arrives, you're dismayed to find that one caption-photo combo is completely wrong (they didn't use the photo they said they were going to). In another photo, they practically cropped out the plant that relates to the text, so the photo is basically irrelevant. And in that photo and another, the cropping has completely thrown off the caption you provided; the plant that used to be at the "top left," for instance, is now in the center, or else cropped out altogether.

Do you:

a. Not say anything, and just hope it doesn't happen again?

b. Bring it to the editor's attention and offer to review the layouts *with* the photos in place, knowing they probably won't go for that?

c. Refrain from providing detailed captions, so it won't matter if plant placements change due to cropping?

d. Ask that the magazine print a correction in the next issue, giving them permission to reprint the correct photos without additional payment?

e. Something else?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this completely hypothetical situation.

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