Client wants image cropped.

[mark]

Tell them you will sell them the whole print uncropped and throw in a cheap ass pair of scissors for free. Let them crop it, F^ck it ups and offer to sell them another.

[Moose38]

When i am HIRED to do an image for the customer. I give them what they want. But if it's some of my artful images found in my potfolio. They come as is. In this kind of Photography i shoot what i see.

[Nicholas Lindan]

1) The customer is always right;
2) The customer is right even when he's wrong;
3) As soon as the customer is wrong he's no longer your customer;
4) There are some customers you are just better off without.

[Mike1234]

1. Collect client's money.
2. Deliver the cropped print.
3. Smile and politely say, "Thank you, kind sir".
4. Go to nearsest pub and get into a drunken brawl.
5. Wake up late the next morning in too much pain to even care about the crop.
6. This is your life as a photo ho'... but at least ya' ain't a slut 'coz ya' got paid. :D

[DanielStone]

sell the print as you would have printed it, then offer to help them get a mat to "crop" it down to what THEY want to see(that 4x8 ratio).

then, in the end, you BOTH get what YOU wanted.

-Dan

[Shan Ren]

If it is an art print I would refuse. If they want to buy a print cropped to their specifications then they can go make a photo to their own specs. Would they buy a painting and then cut it?

Well, actually, there are lots of cases where people have done this to fit frames, or, in the cases of very large works, to fit into smaller rooms.... Some have even had holes cut in them for windows or doors! Wasn't the Mona Lisa trimmed slightly to fit a frame at one stage?

To the original poster, I have had people ask me to change colours in images, print larger, smaller, crop, you name it. I have no hard and fast rules. If the image is one you took yourself as a personal work. but holds it's integrity with the change then consider it. If it is a commissioned or commercial work, then the patron/commissioner/client should, potentially, have a say in the final image.

Or maybe think of it as a collaborative work and get the purchaser to sign the print as well. They might just enjoy that and work with you more.

[AmandaTom]

My initial response when I saw this post was, "What?! No way."

It still is.