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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 2 years 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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[–] G_SinD@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

You've given him more than the week he asked for, and he's been paid up front. Stop being so nice to him and demand your product or your money back so you can hire someone who can deliver. As a photographer whose shot a few destination weddings now, I take half the money up front and half when the product is delivered. In one intimate wedding, from the about 700 pictures I shot, 86 were edited. It took me two weeks. And that, I felt, was pushing it. I gave them 10 edits after just a few days so they could get a taste of what's coming and so they would have something to share right away. A month and a half is a little ridiculous in my personal opinion, but I don't do magazine editing...