Do you know what you don't get, when you book me for a photoshoot?
Bull$hit.
Here I share an incident with you: A lady hires a photographer for her branding. They have quite a long winded planning, including pages of "form filling", which were about her "branding", "passion", "target audience" etc... And on top of these, things continue with selecting and gathering lots of fancy props, explaining each plan photograph with supportive images, dressing code etc...
Sounds amazing, doesn't it?
Maybe not.
Anyway, long story short, the photoshoot takes place and the photographs come out ermm lets say "undesirable".
"They were awful" was the exact words used to describe them to me, when this incident been told. This lady couldn't even use one image. The fee of this photographer is quite a chunk as well. So it is not a "you get what you pay for" situation.
Unfortuately I heard similar incidents recently, on different cases. I hope this is not becoming a new "way".
$hit happens. Things can go wrong. Worse case scenario, you offer a refund or reshoot, if the fault is on you.
But, if you don't... then there is something very rotten there.
Integrity is not something you can swich on and off.
On my consultation sessions prior to the photoshoot, we plan ahead for the session. It takes roughly half an hour, in which my full attention will be on you and the details. Straight to the point. Than if we really need, we keep correspondance for sharing ideas, via email mostly, till the photoshoot day.
Time is precious. No one has the right to waste it.
The "end product" is the photographs, which you will be delivering. You can spice it up in as much as you can, nothing wrong with this, but this doesn't change the vital point of a photographers service: The photographs.
Am I wrong?