I am looking into getting a collection of cars in great condition that are at least 10 years old.
I want to use these pictures in the future on my Facebook page to show what a car can look like when taken care of properly.
Any contributions would be appreciated :idea:
At least you're asking. Others will just go to a detailers web-sites, download the pics and post them as their own.
Personally, I understand what you're trying to demonstrate, but I'm in disagreement of how you're trying to accomplish it. You shouldn't post others work and claim that a customers car can look like a car I worked on, when in fact your claim is nothing but false advertising, misleading and fraudulent. If you really want to educate potential customers, send them to the multitude of posts and videos by Mike Phillips and Autogeek.
One reason is, you can go grab a pic on my site, but you have no knowledge of what went into that job, time, labor, expertise, equipment, product, testing, etc. You don't know that I took paint measurements, did test spots with various combinations of product, pads and technique. You don't know that maybe I spent 25 hours on a particular car. You also have no idea what my customer paid. Then you post that pic on your site, get a customer who is nothing but let down. Whats even worse is what happens if my customer sees their car on your site?
If you pass my customers cars off as ones that your customers could look like, and you fall short, your not only hurting yourself, but me and the detailing industry as a whole.
My suggestion is to do as many others have done on this site. Generate your own customers and take your own before/after shots. If you have friends and family with older cars, take them and detail them for them. Many of us when starting off needed a portfolio and grabbed friends and family.
Now this post makes me think I actually have to waste hours today doing water marks all my photos... Something I've been to lazy to do up until now. Honestly don't take other peoples work.
Here is a short story. I have a customer where I detailed his 2015 Caddy XTS. I notice in his garage he had a BMW M3 convertible. I asked if I could detail that and he said, yes, except he just had it done by someone else before he found me. But he offered for me to take pictures of it and post it to my website. There are NO BMW M3 photo's on my website. Why? I didn't take his offering. When he calls me in April to do the Caddy again, most certainly I will do his M3. Next week I'll be doing his wife's Jeep Liberty.
