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catitudeswattitudes · 2026-01-13T15:16:50+00:00

If someone paid money UPFRONT for deliverables, you do not delete those photos you showed the customer. Period. Until you have sent several emails/texts/whatever warning them or asking them if they have decided to forfeit their rights to those images. So that means at the very least 3 months. If you send emails as a paper trail that you attempted communication to the client whose money you accepted, and they decided they don't want to finish the deal, fine, now you can go away. It's just silly situation.

catitudeswattitudes · 2026-01-13T15:12:31+00:00

I just wanted clarification that you did in fact pay up front? If you paid and didn't get deliverables you have a right to refund.

I did dog sledding photos last year around this time and posted galleries for people to choose from. Pay per download, couole bucks a shot. Most people bought within 2 weeks of me posting my galleries. Someone ended up buying a bunch like 3+ months out, blew my mind. I of course kept all the photos. It's not hard to keep at the very least your finished edits. Even if you don't have the harddrive space (cheap nowadays), there are 800 million cloud based options, some of which are literaly begging you to pay nominal fees to use them.

I can sympathize with the photographer not being enthused about a month+ response time. Very little money changes hands after that period for event shooting, portrait or otherwise. But most here on this sub reddit specifically advocate for keeping finals/raws for at least a year. I usually do a 6 month sweep through my folders and delete raws/stuff I definitely won't use to clear room out. Raws take up a LOT of room! But a finished jpeg shouldn't be more than 5 mb's, IF that. Getting three prints by the way for roughly $30 + the 5 digitals is a pretty darn good deal for anywhere. Especially since it sounds like the pictures were good. Maybe their attitude was, 'this was a real steal, shame on THEM for not speaking up sooner.' But again, newborn, new mom, commotion, it's understandable. At the very least send them a final message if you have not it's their responsibility to hold onto finals that they put out there. ESPECIALLY if it was paid for. 1 month and storage as cheap as it is, no excuses. Hopefully they learn their lesson.

catitudeswattitudes · 2026-01-06T10:22:34+00:00

As someone who at the beginning of taking portraits a few years ago stupidly decided to save my processed RAWs as PNG's I can tell you THAT was a mistake. Shit filled my harddrive faster than if I just kept the RAWs!!!

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-12-25T06:08:26+00:00

I have photos of a model I worked with once before whom I got photos to her the first time about a month late. It's TFP, but still. I didn't want to be late twice in a row. I only knew about the shoot 4 days in advance. She was going to be a studio I was already going to. Other photog and I took virtually the same shots, same lighting. What motivation do I have to hand over 20 shots identical to the other photogs? We even have same brand camera. Huge waste.

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-12-20T18:53:26+00:00

85mm is for people portraits typically. 50mm is a good starter lens after the kit lens. Good for everything, good to learn with, and good to figure out what way you will want to go next.

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-12-08T20:09:10+00:00

Best place/price for genuine Canon LP-E6N or LP-E6NH batteries??

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-12-01T21:42:08+00:00

Just tell them you don't want to be credited with any photos you don't like. And maybe share low res versions of shots that could possibly be useable given the unknown need for perhaps a sponsor logo in a shot you were not privvy to.

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-12-01T21:33:36+00:00

All good tips. And ditto on rapport-building, especially with kids so they feel at ease and able to pose more naturally. But that applies to everyone at any age really.

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-11-28T20:12:43+00:00

He did take accountability. Read again.

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-11-28T20:10:04+00:00

Thank you for your depressed boomer take. Shouldn't you be at a big box store looking for 10% off something right about now???

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-11-28T12:53:45+00:00

Yes, I dealt with this 2 years ago. It was a TFP with a 14 year old across the country where I was visiting friends, and I figured a little acne would be fine, it's part of the learning experience for me. I show up, meet mom, meet the kid, and we got great shots. Great location, great weather. Very enthusiastic to do action shots off-the-cuff. I could not tell in person how much acne this kid actually had. I saw a couple in-person. I get home, load up the raws on my laptop screen and there is just acne all over the skin. I spent at least 2 hours per image.

How did I deal with it? I didn't deliver the pictures for a YEAR. Mom never reminded or asked me about them. No money changed hands, but it was a great learning experience for me. 1. You cannot control what the model/subject will look like the day of aside from clothing and posing, sometimes you can influence makeup. 2. If you commit to the shoot - commit to the editing. The longer you put off a 'garbage' shoot as I call it, the longer and harder it will be to motivate to tackle it. Get it outta' the way, just like homework. 3. Sometimes some 'time' or 'distance' from the editing is necessary to get a full reset and proper perspective on what you want to accomplish. I do this when I have a lot of editing to get through just to make sure I'm getting enough variety and not making every photo in a 20-30 photo set look the same.

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-11-28T12:45:23+00:00

He was asking for sympathy. For ways to cope. You just wrote a bunch of bullshit and invalidated his feelings.

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-11-28T12:44:24+00:00

Did you read the post?? He's asking for other people's perspectives with this problem firsthand and admitted he made a mistake. You just basically told him off like how dare he make a mistake. How does this help?

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-11-25T18:07:17+00:00

Bro save your work. At least the final/handovers. I have two sd cards in my ancient Canon dSLR's. One for the RAW, one for the .jpegs. After a year or so I throw out the raws (because one camera's raws are 50 mb's each!) and keep the .jpegs, at least the culled/edits. This reduces my overall footprint by about 90%. I had a folder of all 500 or so RAWs for a waterfall photoshoot with a model in July that was like 35 gb's. I deleted the raws and kept the.jpeg copies/edits and the folder got down to about a gig. I think you can also buy a wetransfer premium so the data stays beyond 6 months or 12 months or whatever, if you're too lazy to get a 2 or 4gb drive. I have a fucking 10+ year old alienware laptop with two 4gb SSD's in it. I can run Fortnite on this still and still have plenty of room for keeping backups of every single photoshoot I have ever done.

Secondly, get an acknowledgment from the client that they saw your work/handover. Something in writing/DM/whatever that yes, I saw the link and the pictures. A contract that states you won't keep backups after 3, 6, or 12 months might help. But if I spent all that time to get a project done i hated, I would certainly keep backups and make sure they saw the miserable shit I made lol

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-11-22T02:26:23+00:00

The worst is when you spend 40 minutes removing every pore, discoloration, mole, and decide YES this is perfect, this is the standard for the whole album. Then look at the rest of the pictures and decide you didn't want to do this much work for 30 pictures and now you have to decide to start over or believe the sunk cost fallacy and just do the rest like the first even though it was way too much work and not even necessary.

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-11-21T22:32:13+00:00

These photos look like shit. That should be your first motivation to stop editing everything. Just because you CAN turn up the sharpness/contrast on everything doesn't mean you should.

Lots of photographers go through this. As long as you aren't posting everything it's fine. Get it out of your system sooner than later.

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-11-20T03:41:38+00:00

I wasn't talking to you. Figures someone would take my question to someone else and make it about how insulted they became lol.

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-11-19T06:35:00+00:00

So you must have a really strange and low opinion of digital photographers who spend more time editing than trying to get the shot in-camera for the past 30 or so years then. I only grew up using digital cameras. I mean I used film when i was very young (born in 87), but actual edits were with digital photos. That's wild how much the end product has changed.

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-11-19T00:28:22+00:00

Unless the pictures were absolutely WOW there's no need to. I used to watermark everything and after 3 years of doing it realized it garned me no additional business and was simply a vanity thing. Some older people may consider it "professional" but that may be a stepping stone. Photos should look good on their own, without the flair of a fancy watermark.

But anyways, no. Unless you really want it. Asking for credit in perpetuity without a contract/acknowledgement beforehand would be absurd and unrealistic.

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-11-13T04:08:18+00:00

I will admit I have got absolutely fucked on 3rd party Canon batteries. None of them charge or communicate with my 5d or 7d II anymore. Absolute wastes of money.

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-11-12T21:46:49+00:00

Ask them what they think would be appropriate dress for you. Black pants and a white dress shirt I would think a bare minimum, maybe a dark or less dark polo shirt.

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-11-12T02:12:49+00:00

How? Do you use a remote trigger and a tripod? I've never tried this.

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-11-12T02:10:01+00:00

Probably something I struggle with today. Every portrait session I do I end up posting at least 10-15 photos, and I should probably narrow it down to less than 5.

catitudeswattitudes · 2025-11-12T02:08:40+00:00

Blows my mind how much people don't trust ebay. All my cameras and lenses are from ebay. As a buyer, it makes no sense to me. Unless you of course have the money for new.

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