Business & Legal
The $5,000 Mistake That Taught Me Everything About Photography Contracts
I lost a $5,000 client because of a sloppy contract. Not a missing contract. A sloppy one. She was a corporate client who hired me for headshots across her entire executive team. We had an agreement, but it was a generic template I’d grabbed from a photography forum years earlier. It didn’t specify delivery timelines clearly, it had a vague usage rights clause, and it said nothing about what happened if she requested additional edits beyond what we discussed.