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
Paid jobs, I show the client the gallery of images 1-3 days after the shoot. I also send samples from the shoot same or next day.
Once they choose the photos they want from the gallery I offer a 3 day turnaround. Sometimes I do it quicker and have it done the next day.
50-80 photos is a tiny amount in 40mins.
Maybe 5-10 decent photos from that, if lucky To edit them they should only take a couple of hours at max.
If he’s that busy, he shouldn’t have accepted if it means 1 month wait for you. Also he’s spent the 100 and now there is not much incentive for him to complete the job.
I would suspect he’s just being a flakey, inexperienced photographer. Or something happened the photos.