Hi Rod:
Here's one recommendation (Michael Pearlman also touched on it). You can thank the person for their nice comments and have a sheet of paper that describes your consulting services. You might have rates for consulting during shows, in person at someone's home/office/studio and via phone or internet. You can ask them if they'd like to spend 15 minutes starting right then and you can take a credit card up front, then bill for the balance if the person exceeds the time allotted. It's a way to take a negative and turn it into a positive (or at least, you'll be explaining that you value the time its taken for you to learn what you know, and that person will hopefully understand the value as well).
All the best,
Andrew
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On May 30, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Rod Melotte wrote:
> Yea - that is one thing I'm struggling with. Some sweaty dude with a camera
> around his neck comes into the booth and LOVES my work and then proceeds to ask
> how I did it.
>
> Since I'm anti-natural photography and tend to "extend" the boundaries of
> reality there is a lot more then "did you use photoshop" in my work. How do you
> tell someone to bugger off or buy something.
>
> I'm not into giving away my routine so they can copy it even though I know 100%
> that they won't come close. Heck - if another Art Fair guy came into my booth
> and asked I would have no problem talking about my process professional to
> professional as we can learn from each other but some random person . . . . .
>
> Is there some key sentence I can use? A phrase?
>
> www.melottephotoimagery.com
>
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