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This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Paid a photographer up front and regret it (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by ciggybandit@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I recently needed some photos for my clothing brand. I hired this dude who I wouldnt say he's a friend but definitely an acquaintance who's close with a lot of my close friends. Whenever I brought up the idea for the shoot to him he seemed really excited about it and out of trust and all the good things i've heard about him, I booked the shoot with the entire payment up front. Fast forward month and a half now and I still haven't received those photos. We only shot for 40 mins to an hour and he probably took close to 50-80 photos. I've already hit him up asking for the photos and he tells me he's still working on them. I don't want to keep asking him like some crazy ex to deliver the photos that I already paid for but at this point idk what to do.

I'm not a photographer so i don't know, but am I being too impatient or is a month and a half too long for him to edit some photos? I'm considering whether I should keep bothering him or if I should just consider this a lost cause and hire a different photographer

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[–] BitchImaKawaiiPotato@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Next time you ask, ask him what the expected delivery date is? I’m a photographer who does a lot of sessions for friends of friends since I’m just starting out and I’m getting around by word of mouth. At most editing my own photos takes at most a week and a half. I usually end up with 300 and have to cull, crop, edit, cull some more, then put in gallery. I also work another job outside of that so it seems like this photographer you’re dealing with is either VERY busy or he’s just a procrastinator. Longest I took on a gallery was a few weeks because the original photos were bad quality and I didn’t ever feel like working on the photos bc I was discouraged.