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Staging a home for photo shoot vs charging extra for post processing clean up?


5 years 5 months ago #615150 by Dan Spade
I photographed a home today that was so filthy!  I know the broker isn't going to dig how these look.  Home owner wasn't around and broker was unreachable.  Would you have taken the photos and just clean them up in post?  Or hold off till someone cleaned the place?  

I'm paid a fixed rate for each home I photograph.  Now it seems my pricing model has back fired a little.  
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5 years 5 months ago - 5 years 5 months ago #615164 by Darwish
In my opinion, here's what I would do:

- If the place is too filthy that it's going to require a lot of post processing, I would either:

1- Wait till someone cleans up the place so that I am able to take the quality shots that me (and my client) are satisfied with, while charging the fixed rate.

2- Take shots of the filthy place as is and charge extra for the post processing work. 

If time is of the essence and the broker needs them ASAP (and they aren't satisfied with how the place looks) then I think it's you're right to charge extra for the post processing as you are doing additional work, and it's not you're fault the place is a mess. Just my opinion.
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5 years 5 months ago #615203 by Nikon Shooter
The value of a picture is in the quality of information it holds
and the way it will be used.

The quality of the info may be great but it is possibly not de-
sirable… making unusable.

I would not have lost my time but this situation should be clear
with the broker and travel expenses should be compensated.
Light is free… capturing it is not!
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5 years 5 months ago #616065 by garyrhook
If the broker was unaware of the situation, that's on him/her. Deliver the images to explain what you found, then open the discussion about hiring a cleaning service before the reshoot. Which you could discount, but I probably wouldn't.

You now have a number of things to cover in your contractual agreement, to ensure that in the future problems of this same sort are handled per agreed upon parameters.

No, you don't clean it up in post unless you're paid to do so. Your job should be to properly light and record the property as-is.
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