Hired by the organiser/venue or band to shoot, watermark or no watermark?

I've shot paid gigs a few times now, hired by the band or organiser and each time I've just given them as many photos as I could on a disc at a size good enough for myspace (800px long end usually). It's always been pretty informal and I never put my watermark on any of the photos. Should I have? Should I from now on in similar situations? Should I tell them to contact me again and pay another fee if they want some photos with no watermark for some reason? Seeing as they've been informal agreements, I'm thinking I should have watermarked them because it's not like they paid more or anything. I'm still getting into shooting paid gigs so anything related to this would be very helpful

What does your contract say?

If you have done it a few times it is time to start to "get it in writing" before they start to take advantage of you. "getting it togather" now will be a lot easier than later if this grows into something bigger.

If you are delivering proofs first, I definatley would watermark them. But not on the final images. -- how many CD liner note photos have you seen that are watermarked?--

I would start to limit you offerings as well. Send in just the good ones. Rather than everything you can fit on a CD. At times it can be hard as we like our own work. But be ruthless in editing, the quality you submit will be better, and with better work comes more work.

Mark1 wrote in post #8290438
What does your contract say?

If you have done it a few times it is time to start to "get it in writing" before they start to take advantage of you. "getting it togather" now will be a lot easier than later if this grows into something bigger.

If you are delivering proofs first, I definatley would watermark them. But not on the final images. -- how many CD liner note photos have you seen that are watermarked?--

I would start to limit you offerings as well. Send in just the good ones. Rather than everything you can fit on a CD. At times it can be hard as we like our own work. But be ruthless in editing, the quality you submit will be better, and with better work comes more work.

I don't have a contract, they've all been small gigs where I've just spoken to one person and they've dealt with me really. Getting it together is what I want to do and that's why I started this thread because I need some knowledge as I don't know any photographers experienced in this field that I can talk to face-to-face

Yeah that's what I meant by if they wanted to use them for a new CD or something that I'd get them to contact me and pay another fee.

I definitely only send in the good ones. I go through them a few times over, cull once, cull twice, cull three times and then finalise what I'm giving them. So there aren't any proofs to send really, I just give them however many good ones I ended up with. And that's where I don't watermark but I'm thinking I will from now on.

Mark1 wrote in post #8290438
What does your contract say?

If you have done it a few times it is time to start to "get it in writing" before they start to take advantage of you. "getting it togather" now will be a lot easier than later if this grows into something bigger.

If you are delivering proofs first, I definatley would watermark them. But not on the final images. -- how many CD liner note photos have you seen that are watermarked?--

I would start to limit you offerings as well. Send in just the good ones. Rather than everything you can fit on a CD. At times it can be hard as we like our own work. But be ruthless in editing, the quality you submit will be better, and with better work comes more work.

^^great points, and +1 for watermarking your stuff. I mean it's your photos =(