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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

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

Story time. We didn’t have a big to-do when my younger son was born for reasons, then at six months we held a big celebration for him. I was fishing around for photographers (I have many pro photpgrapher friends and many more who are extremely talented; you know where this is going), and a friend offered to take the photos. He’s really good, especially at portraits. I paid him upfront, because of course I knew he’d come through and I didn’t want to deal with money. And it wasn’t that much in the grand scheme.

Half the photos he takes with his iPhone indoors, circa 2018 models. They are ok, but I keep thinking I’m missing out on something. The iPhone photos are good. Well, then I waited for the DSLR images. He was working on them. Needed another weekend. Eventually I flat out said just send me anything, these are his baby photos.

They finally arrived, completely unprocessed, a few months before he turned two. I’m still pissed off.