Advice on how to handle a contract dispute
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I have a model I recently worked with on a boudoir shoot with a horse. I normally never do TFP shoots anymore as I have 1000's of photos never posted, however in this case, I decided to go ahead with it as I have done boudoir shoots for years, but had never shot with a live animal and thought it would be fun. She had also never shot anything like this with her horses so was really excited. I have worked with her before in 2 previous shoots, and even had 2 magazine prints between us.
Turns out, there was issues with the shooting location as it was on her "friend's" ranch, where her friend's dad was present. They obvious didn't want to shoot around him so we sat for over an hour waiting for him to leave. Then we ended up having to shoot in the barn which obviously had absolute dogshit lighting and I only had limited lighting to use as we had planned on shooting out in fields and EXTREMELY limited space. The photos actually came out surprisingly well, given the situation.
Regarding the contract, in TFP situations like this, I always have a clause that they MUST make at least one post with some of the final delivered photos we take on their primary social for exposure for at least 1 year. She's never shot this before, she's not at a level where people are going to be paying for her horse photos, so it's a mutual gain situation. We both get photos, and exposure. Otherwise I'm just out here working for free, for some portfolio photos that are ok, but if I was going to just use for my personal portfolio, I would just pay a true professional for better photos.
Now she doesn't want to post the photos. Her reasoning is that she doesn't want boudoir stuff on her page. Keep in mind, she was wearing a full teady with near full cheek coverage undewear. Never going less than that. She has numerous posts wearing far less than that all over her page. What's more, I've seen now she has done OTHER HORSE PHOTOSHOOTS with other photographers wearing booty shorts, near zero coverage crop top shirts. Her response was that even though those are more revealing, they're still publicly acceptable, while lingerie isn't. I had no control over what she wore for the shoot, that was her choice.
So now I'm left in a weird situation. I already know I'm likely not going to work with her again, but what do I do about the literally hours of time spent driving, sitting, shooting, and editing. I could pressure her back on the contract, but the reality is she is getting more and more connected with the local modeling scene and models absolutely love to shit talk to other models about photographers if they don't like them.
I have debated doing a make up shoot, but I have a feeling now that she already did 2 more horse themed shoots she won't want to do it again.
What would you do?
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