re: Official Photography Thread. ♥

What kind of contracts do you all have your clients sign? (I'm trying to get all of my stuff together lol. I feel like even for free sessions I need to have some sort of contracts for my images and whatnot)

Model (like agreeing to let you use their photos on your site)?
Payment?

I've got a printing authorization but I'm trying to come up with something for payments (for when I start charging) and to allow me to use the images myself as examples of my work.


Any tips/examples would be great! Thanks  

Quoting ★Mommarazzi★:" What kind of contracts do you all have your clients sign? (I'm trying to get all of my stuff together ... [snip!] ... start charging) and to allow me to use the images myself as examples of my work. Any tips/examples would be great! Thanks  "

Copyright, Model Release, Minor release, Photography agreement, and then I do the print authorization card.

I feel like this looks really bad... Does it?

Quoting Mrs.Dani:" I feel like this looks really bad... Does it? "

Meh....the lines aren't smooth at all and the gradient background is really odd.

Why did you do that?

Quoting L☮J:" Meh....the lines aren't smooth at all and the gradient background is really odd. Why did you do that?"

I was trying to fix the background but it ended up looking wierd all white so I tried adding a gradient but it did not come out how I wanted. I just started all over though.

Quoting Mrs.Dani:" I was trying to fix the background but it ended up looking wierd all white so I tried adding a gradient but it did not come out how I wanted. I just started all over though."

Why don't you just clone out the white spots to make the background all grey?

Quoting L☮J:" Why don't you just clone out the white spots to make the background all grey?"

I did that at first but then certain spots looked funny and I went over it in white and it looked worse. I just kept doing stuff and it made it worse. I redid it though. Better?

<blockquote><b>Quoting Mrs.Dani:</b>" I did that at first but then certain spots looked funny and I went over it in white and it looked worse. I just kept doing stuff and it made it worse. I redid it though. Better? "</blockquote>

Looks good tto me on my phone. I think I might see a white spot on the ttop left area but could be my eyea

Quoting L☮J:" <blockquote><b>Quoting Mrs.Dani:</b>" I did that at first but then certain spots looked ... [snip!] ... Looks good tto me on my phone. I think I might see a white spot on the ttop left area but could be my eyea"

I fixed it.  

<blockquote><b>Quoting Mrs.Dani:</b>" I fixed it.  "</blockquote>



  yay. Yeah that's way better than the blue.

Quoting L☮J:" <blockquote><b>Quoting Mrs.Dani:</b>" I fixed it.  "</blockquote>   yay. Yeah that's way better than the blue."

Yeah I had a feeling it looked bad. Next time I won't do white.  

Quoting Mrs.Dani:" I did that at first but then certain spots looked funny and I went over it in white and it looked worse. I just kept doing stuff and it made it worse. I redid it though. Better? "

It looks much better than the blue!

Quoting awesomebrandi:" I was going based on the photo you had. It's hard to say without seeing it. If you're shooting groups ... [snip!] ... do with only natural light. Not impossible but you'll have to use a higher ISO and the lowest shutter speed you can safely use."

 

Quoting ★Mommarazzi★:" What kind of contracts do you all have your clients sign? (I'm trying to get all of my stuff together ... [snip!] ... start charging) and to allow me to use the images myself as examples of my work. Any tips/examples would be great! Thanks  "

When I was doing freebie sessions back in the day (five years ago!!) I basically had a model release saying I was allowed to use the photos for whatever advertising things I needed (site, etc) and I gave them a sheet with a little copyright info and expectations, etc. It was pretty simple.

My portrait contract covers payment policy, copyrights, permitted use, editing, limit of liability, specific requested images (no promises made) and rescheduling/cancellation AND it has the model release built into it.