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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i know im getting cooked for not getting a contract or a specific deadline written down. its definitely dumb on my part. I usually do for most of my jobs, specially since i hire a lot of freelancers for my work, but in this case we’re a bit more friendly than ur stranger freelancer just from being in the same spaces a lot and him working with a lot of my close friends, so i just sent him the idea and photo references i had for the shoot, he told me he was into it and gave me his price ($100/h w edits included) we agreed on a date and i paid him in full. didn’t think much of it cause its not a crazy amount of money and i liked his work + he’s a chill dude.
we didnt agree on a deadline, however we were part of the same event about 2 weeks after the shoot, where he came up to me and told me that everything is looking good and to give him about another week since his schedule is super busy. i told him i understood and to just send them when they’re ready. this was over a month ago