It’s weird that people even need metaphors to understand the very basic business model of photography. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Let’s adjust : in the process of baking your special custom cakes I made a bunch of other cakes you did not order. You can buy them if you want otherwise I’ll throw them out. Got it now?

Are these baked goods of which you speak made specially for you? Would you call it a cash grab if they said no we aren’t giving them to you for free?

If you buy a hamburger at McDonalds do you get all the burgers they threw away during training and prep? All the burgers other people didn’t want? No of course not, you paid for one burger you get one burger. The fact that she blurred out and watermarked her photos so they don’t get stolen should tell you everything you want to know about how this works.

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!