Win a PMRE 2026 Ticket: Your Worst Editing Week21708
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 PMRE is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner Imagen is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner Win a PMRE 2026 Ticket: Your Worst Editing Week I have one full-access ticket to the Photo + Media for Real Estate Conference in Las Vegas, November 17 to 19, 2026, at the Palms Casino Resort. I am giving it to a WGAN member. Imagen is putting up five runner-up prizes of 250 editing credits each. This is not a random draw. What you write is the entry. The question: Tell us about the worst post-production week you have had this year. What happened, what it cost you, and what you would change if you could. Optional, but useful to everyone reading: add your typical weekly shoot volume, what your editing stack looks like right now, and your usual turnaround time. Post-production is the part of this business nobody talks about honestly. Most of us have cobbled together some mix of presets, outsourced editors, AI tools, and late nights, and most of us quietly assume everyone else has it figured out better than we do. They do not. So tell the real story, including the parts held together with tape. How to enter: Reply to this thread. One entry per member, open to WGAN members anywhere in the world. You must be a registered WGAN member, and registration is free at wegetaroundnetwork.com. You can edit your reply any time before the deadline. The grand prize: One full-access ticket to PMRE 2026, covering the three-day conference. Judged by me and a member of the Imagen team on honesty, specificity, and how much another photographer would learn from reading it. We are not looking for the best-written entry. We are looking for the truest one. Five runner-up awards, 250 Imagen credits each: Community Favorite goes to the entry with the most likes in this thread at the deadline. Most Honest goes to whoever admits the thing the rest of us would not. Funniest speaks for itself. Most Useful to Other Photographers goes to the entry that teaches the thread something. Best Save goes to whoever dug themselves out of the deepest hole. Deadline: Entries close Monday, October 12, 2026 at 11:59pm Pacific. Winners announced in this thread on Wednesday, October 14, 2026. What the ticket does and does not cover: It is the conference pass only. Travel and lodging are not included. You get yourself to Las Vegas and put a roof over your head. Please enter for the grand prize only if you can realistically be there November 17 to 19. About the credits: One credit edits one photo with Imagen's full AI toolset. Credits do not expire and can be added to any Imagen account, whether you are a paying subscriber, on a trial, or signing up for the first time. Every new Imagen account already starts with 250 free credits, so a runner-up who is new to the platform ends up with 500, worth roughly $160. Runner-up credits are applied within five business days of the winner providing the email address on their Imagen account. Official rules: No purchase necessary and no product use is required to enter or to win. Open to registered We Get Around Network members who are 18 years or older as of the entry date. Void where prohibited or restricted by law. Not open to residents of any jurisdiction subject to comprehensive United States sanctions. Entries must be posted in this thread before the deadline. One entry per member; duplicate or multiple entries will be disqualified. The grand prize is judged by Tom Sparks of the We Get Around Network and a named representative of Imagen on the criteria stated above. Community Favorite is determined by the like count on each entry at 11:59pm Pacific on October 12, 2026. The remaining four runner-up awards are selected by the judges. Judges' decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into. There is one grand prize and five runner-up prizes. Approximate retail value of the grand prize is $899.00. Approximate retail value of each runner-up prize is $160.00. The grand prize is a conference ticket only; travel, lodging and all other expenses are the winner's responsibility, and you should enter only if you are able to attend in Las Vegas November 17 to 19, 2026 at your own expense. The grand prize is non-transferable and no cash equivalent will be offered. The grand prize winner must confirm within 72 hours of notification or an alternate will be selected. Runner-up winners must supply the email address associated with their Imagen account in order to receive credits. Winners are solely responsible for all taxes and any withholding applicable in their jurisdiction. United States winners may be required to complete a Form W-9 and will receive a Form 1099-MISC where the combined prize value requires it. By entering, you agree that your reply may be quoted in whole or in part, with attribution to your name and business, in follow-up content published by the We Get Around Network and Imagen. Sponsors: WGAN Holdings Inc., 490 Chadbourne Rd, Suite A189, Fairfield, CA 94534, and ImagenAI Ltd. About Imagen: Imagen is an AI photo editing platform that learns an individual photographer's editing style from their past work and applies it to new shoots. It is used across real estate, wedding, portrait and event photography. Topics covered in this thread include: Imagen, PMRE 2026, AI photo editing, post-production workflow, real estate photography, editing turnaround, outsourced editing, batch editing So: what was your worst week, and what did it cost you? |
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| My worst production week this year was shooting 42 homes nine of those had video it was during a holiday for our editors overseas and we didn’t realize it so all of the orders were late coming back everyday it cost us about $30-$50 depending on the order to make things right for the delay in the images what I would’ve done differently was made sure that I know when my holidays are for my overseas editors because that can cause a huge back up in editing. | ||
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| Hurricane polo came thru omaha Nebraska after 1.5 weeks of heavy rains and flooded our city after 7 inches fell in 2 hours- been a rough haul getting caught up and dodging raindrops! | ||
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| 4 days left. 6 prizes. 2 entries. That is not a typo. As I write this there are two entries in this thread and six prizes on the table: one full-access PMRE 2026 ticket and five runner-up awards of 250 Imagen credits each. Those are very good odds, and I would rather they not stay that way. A few things that might be holding you back: You do not need to write an essay. The two entries so far are a few sentences each. One is a holiday-week editing backlog and the other is a flooded city. What happened, what it cost you, and what you would change. That is five minutes. You can edit it later. Post the short version now and add detail any time before the deadline. You do not need to be going to Las Vegas. If you cannot make it November 17 to 19, say so in your reply and you are still in the running for the runner-up credits. Community Favorite is wide open. It goes to the entry with the most likes at the deadline, and right now it is a tie at 3. If you are not entering, at least read the entries and like the one that earned it. Reading this as a guest? You do have to join the forum to reply, but the free tier is all you need. Entries close Monday, October 12 at 11:59pm Pacific. Reply below. |
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| Alright. I got 2 for you and you decide. 1 regular that everyone will relate to and one pretty dramatic. Typical weekly volume :40-50 shoots Photo Editing - ESOFT Video Editing - European editors 1) So we had this big client recently - a set of premium retirement homes here in Toronto. They wanted photos for their website - so they couldn't just be regular real estate photos - they had to be more premium than that to represent the brand. Of course, on the day of the shoot for one of the residences a) it rained a few hours before b)there was a huge blue construction lift right in front of the building with also a construction crew repairing a lamp post in front of the building. And of course, our photographer took an submitted 100nds of photos instead of selecting a few best ones. Now removing the lift and the construction crew was not too bad. Our editors were able to handle it, but removing wet spots was a bigger challenge. So I went on a hunt for the best AI tool to do that. Literally, tested all of them, AutoHDR, Fotello, Imagen, manual removal in Lightroom, etc. One thing that pleasantly surprised me with Imagen, is that - they just gave me 250 credits to use for free (none of the other guys are even close to that offer - fotello kind of is since you can upalod the whole property - but in this case we needed individual images from multiple properties to play with and regenerate as we wished) - after trying AI to remove the wet spots - it was successful in doing that but it screwed up the name plaque of the residence (and all of them did that - as everyone has encountered - AI always messes that up). But what surpised me here is that I put the images to review with Imagen, just to try it out and they've emailed me within the hour with a corrected name plaque! And that's on a free credit account too! I remember trying them I think a year ago and their AI editing was pre-historic with having to have lightroom and a dedicated editor just to use the platform - they've definitely stepped up their game here and can definitely be competitive with the others now. I'm not a paid client or know anyone from Imagen, but it was a pleasant surprise. It was too cumbersome unfortunately to have this done on multiple images myself, so I just paid an arm & leg to my editors to do all the removals. In the end client was happy and i had 10 windows open with different AI tools that I did not end up using... 2) You expect things to go wrong. It's a natural part of post-production: missing or corrupt files, falling behind on deadlines. You try to have a plan in place for when things go wrong. Heck, you even have a contingency plan in case your editor takes a sick day or two. But one thing that never crossed our minds, and I'm sure hasn't crossed yours, is what happens when your editor dies? You log in on a Monday morning to an email from your editor's brother telling you that your editor has passed away in his sleep from a heart attack. He was 29. Of course, you're devastated that your trusted editor has died. But you also have 10 video orders due that day, another 8 tomorrow, and more coming in the day after that. It's an uncomfortable reality. You're dealing with the death of a person, but you're also responsible for clients, deadlines, revenue, and the work that still needs to get done. You don't have the luxury of putting the business on pause while you process what happened. So you start calling backup editors. The problem is that the better, more experienced editors are either too expensive or unavailable to take on your workload for the foreseeable future. The editors you can get at on short notice are the ones you normally keep as backups for a day or two, not for an entire production schedule because their quality isn't as great. You make it work. For the next few days, you send jobs to whoever is available and try to keep things moving. Then the revisions start coming in. Clients notice the change in quality. Some request revisions on videos from the previous week, when your original editor was still alive. But you don't have the working files, so the new editors have to recreate the videos or work around what's already been delivered. There's music, voiceovers, and edits that would take hours to reproduce. Sometimes, starting from scratch is the only realistic option. It's more expensive, but you have to keep your client happy. You spend the next two weeks frantically searching for editors, posting in groups, reaching out to contacts, and trying to find someone who can actually handle the workload and produce the same quality. Even used a friend competitor for help at one point. Eventually, you get lucky. You find an editor with a team of their own, backup editors, and consistent quality across the board. The pricing is comparable to what you were paying before. Thank God, you think. Finally, you can breathe. And then you remember why you needed a new editor in the first place. You grieve a little more. It's a strange feeling when someone you've never met dies. You can know someone through years of working together, rely on their work every day, and still never have met them in person. That's how it is with remote work. It's even stranger when you're so busy dealing with the consequences of their death that you barely have time to process it. Financially, the situation cost us money in extra revisions, redoing work, and trying to maintain the same level of service with an entirely different team. We likely lost a client or two because of the inconsistent quality during those two weeks. There was also the time spent searching for a replacement while trying to keep up with our regular workload. A lot of late nights catching up. But I think the hardest cost to measure was the personal one. For a while, I was so focused on keeping the business running that I didn't feel like I had the space to grieve. I had to keep moving, keep answering emails, keep delivering work. It felt like I had to put my humanity aside to do my job. If I could change anything, I would have built more redundancy into our post-production process before we needed it. Not just a list of backup editors, but established relationships with people who could step in, access to working files, and a workflow that didn't depend so heavily on one person. We had a contingency plan for someone being unavailable for a day or two. We didn't have a plan for losing someone permanently. Of course, no contingency plan can prepare you for the death of a 29-year-old colleague. And no amount of preparation makes that loss any less sad. But I'd rather learn how to protect the business without having to learn, in the middle of a crisis, how to keep it running while grieving someone who was part of it. Yauheni B |
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