Generally yeah, in your case no. If the logo is small and fairly easy to remove he might not charge you at all.

Most people use free filters that suck (my paid luts cost 400$) and ruin the vision of the photographer, then tag them. They don’t even have the decency to say they are the ones who ruin the photo when someone says it looks bad and that way the photographer looks bad. A photographer is an artist, who applies the art for you, it’s like you order a painting and then paint over it. Sounds mad isnt it? Well it’s exacrly like that.

A paid family photo session with coordinated outfits… that’s so cringe. Nothing against the photographer, money is money, but I will never understand why anyone would desire to do this.

The only issue is when people do a shit edit, then post them and tag the photographer, making them look bad… Minor stuff, go for it.

Thanks for your input and perspectives, everyone! My goal is to be respectful of our photographer’s craft, and not violate any copyright laws. I plan to take many of your suggestions to just ask him if he’d be willing to do it.

I think even better than asking the photographer to fix it, you could mention that you think it’s an easy fix well within your reach but you wanted to know if he’s ok with you doing it yourself. This way you’re a) showing you understand it’s not cool to just go around and mess up other people photos, and b) not asking for anything, technically… He might be the one proposing to help instead!

You could ask if they would do it for free but if that’s the only thing you do it’s fine

are they your photos?

if so, you can shit on them and it doesn’t matter what the photographer thinks or does.

Ask the photographer.

Yes.

Personally. As long as I dont get tagged after my clients butcher my photos. I don’t give a crap.

How would they even find out?

So family photo session, and you get digital files to print yourself? Why would they ever see the final prints?

As others say, ask the photographer. Unless it’s hundreds of photos they’d probably do it.

If there isn’t my name on it and I’m not going to use them myself, i don’t really care -

Otherwise, yeah please don’t

You should really contact the photographer and ask them to do the editing.

It depends.

There might be something in the agreement that prevents you from doing that. There might also be something that prevents you from doing that under certain conditions. For example, the photographer might not allow placing their name under the photos that were not edited by them because it might affect their reputation if the edits are not approved by them.

Or you might be allowed to do whatever you want with these photos. It all depends.

Depends on the contract.

Usually, full copyright is not transferred in a simple photoshoot gig. We’d spell it out so that the photographer retains full copyright, and client gains the right to share and publish the work as-is.

If they want the right to produce and publish derivative works, that’ll have to be negotiated. (IE, you can, but leave my name completely out of it.)

If they want the right to SELL the original or derivatives, or otherwise use them commercially, that’ll be a completely different contract, probably in the form of a royalty agreement.