Hey guys,


I've had a photoshoot with a photographer a few weeks ago. The photos came in and they are great but he kinda made the retouching a little neither here nor there. I want the images perfect and I know I could do a great job at touching them up to my liking and I wonder if it's bad sportsmanship to do that at all?
I've already paid a LOT of money for both the shoot and the retouching and it took a few weeks to get them and I really don't want to send them back, pay even more and most likely not get the results I'd personally want.

He also asked me to give him the go ahead on when it'll be okay for him to post a snippet to his on SM and I just don't know what to say. I don't want my images on his page and my page differing (even just slightly).


What would you do...?

Oh I didn’t mean “perfect” in an airbrushed to ridiculousness way, more like perfect to my standards, ie fade the odd scar, smooth down odd bumps due to misfortunate angles, etc.
He did mention repeatedly that he is snowed under majorly, so he probably just didn’t have as much time on his hands as I do and so I’m happy to do the low-key tweaks.

I just wanted to know that initiating the conversation about it is considered an okay thing to do rather than an almighty faux pas.


Thanks xw5!