Picture Perfect

Up-front Agreements

From the get-go, catalogers and the photographers they enlist need to agree on how many shots can be completed in a day, along with how many shots are required overall. "If you have one idea of what needs to be accomplished and you see that the shoot isn't being propped or styled the way you thought it would be, you're going to have a big problem," Shasho-Jones says. "You might have thought the photographer could accomplish 12 shots a day, but may only be able to accomplish six." These quotas are based on all of the variables associated with the shot, such as whether or not the company is using models, and how elaborate the sets may be.