Photography

Is it normal for photographer to charge extra for re-editing?

Yes. It is normal for a photog to charge for additional work. However...

It is not normal to charge extra just to give the customer what they paid for in the first place, if that first deliverable does not include it.

Check your contract for specifics about what the photographer is responsible for delivering, but if there are no specifics, you're probably out of luck, if not a little wiser for who not to book next time you have a function.

It sounds to me by the non-standard aspect ratios of the final photos and the relatively cheap price ($10-ish/photo) that you've contracted an inexperienced photog, and maybe some gentle "You know... other photographers I've spoken to wouldn't do it that way" discussion might go far into a discount on that $75 "Artistic Rights Fee" or whatever they're calling it.

Best of luck!

If you don't like certain photos you can just hide or remove them from the gallery.

5x7 is a different crop from 4x6 so it's hardly possible to have both.

My advice don't print 4x6 its just too small for a good picture.

I was going to reply that another 1 sided story as it usually happens here but then i saw the pics that you posted on your profile and wow those are bad. Like bad BAD.

I’d say cut the losses and find another photographer

first red flag for me is that they didn't let you choose your final images. you're the paying customer you should be able to select the final pictures you will receive.

to answer your question it is normal but only if the client is asking for something completely different then from the original direction. but if they want something slightly warmer or cooler or change in tint i don't charge for that. i personally allow 1-2 minor adjustments for free before i do charge additional edit fees.

I deliver 3:2 ratio. Same as every cameras shoot at.

I got my kid's school portraits back today. I paid $12 for retouching. They botched it, it looks horrible, like there is something added to his mouth, with a big white splotchy thing in there. Clearly an error. They are telling me they not only can't undo because they don't have the original (less than a month after the shoot), but that they won't refund the retouching fee now or on retakes because "the work is already done." So yea I guess some photographers do charge for rework that is their fault.

30-40 edits for $320? You're lucky you got anything out of a price that low. And sounds like you expected $6-800 level of work.

Is it me or are those photos really... bad? Like you said, the blur, the cropping, the colors,... Looks like an amateur took them and slapped some bad filters on it.

So did you pay $320 for the shoot and the edited images? If so, it's likely you are working with an amateur...a bad one judging by the photos. She tried to do black and white to compensate for terrible light and exposure, probably bad focus, too. Black and white can hide a few things. She probably didn't shoot in raw, making it all the worse. She tried photo techniques (the spin) without practicing enough first... turned out crappy. It's fine to try, but if it doesn't work you don't show the client. If her work was better on her page, it may have been from a photo workshop where someone else set the scene, created lighting, etc. And then they took the pictures and included in their portfolio. Try again with a different photog. Don't recommend this one to your friends.

WHOA... I looked at the two examples!

It looks to me like a fairly inexperienced photographer tried to get really creative with your shots when they should not have.

I can see why you are not happy.

I clicked on your profile; what the actual fuck?!

How did you find her anyway? Did she show you any kind of portfolio?

If you're charged extra to send undercooked fish back but it turns out the fish was garbage anyway, would you just leave and go somewhere else to eat, even if you'd paid? Or because you'd paid you'd stick around and not send them right to jail?

If this was grossly different than what the photographer has shown publicly, it's worth doing a reverse image search to see if they're scamming others.

My god those are bad, she cut your heads off!

From the photographer's point of view, we've all had that client from hell that demands endless changes and revisions. But we've also had times where we've just had an off day, or we've mis-read what the client asked for, or the printers made an error. It happens.

I usually have a '3 edits' clause in a contract. If you're not happy with the images and want changes made, I'll do that for you, twice. After that, there is an additional cost for further edits.

I have that in my contract because the photographer I was assisting for when I started had the same clause in her contracts, and she was way better at the business side than I.

That spin effect would be impossible to do in-camera. The lady’s hand is in focus but the blurring encircles this so it’s not like she rotated the camera for creative effect otherwise the hand would be blurred too.

This is why I just give my clients all the pictures. Why don’t they deserve every shot you took of them? And whatever they want edited, you deliver the gallery first, get the list of edit requests, deliver edits in a separate folder, get paid, done.

Took me a minute to find your pics, but in my opinion, those are not very good photos.

I think the motion blur almost looks like what happens when I am playing with the lens and moving the zoom back and forth while I take shots -- just me trying to get interesting photos, but in no way would I do that in a paid photo shoot.

Also, the headless photos are odd.

And the 1 black and white is quite dark -- at least on my monitor.

$320 is bargain basement. I think if they have a camera then it’s a good deal. That being said the $75 is ridiculous.

Just because you bought an expensive camera and charge people money doesn’t mean you know what looks good lmao