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
The delay is totally unacceptable, I never take longer than a week to wrap a job. I recently shot 5k images for a beauty campaign and had to provide an edit of 250 (RAW) to client in 96 hours and I did it! Granted I was being paid a hell of lot more than $100 however he took the job at that rate and he needs to honor the terms. There’s no reason on earth for it to take so long: even the highest end of retouching for all 80 wouldn’t take more than a few weeks and I am sure that’s not the case anyway. Thankfully you are out a very small of money and you are learning an important lesson: you get what you pay for and (written) communication is key!