Photography of food is a separate art from general photography. It is absolutely a specialist area. From the treatment of food, to the substitution of various foodstuffs (mashed potato is substituted for ice-cream). Not just any photographer can shoot food!

I’ve met people like this man, sometimes I wonder how they have been alive this long and how do they have more money than me.

Normally, JM's constant interruptions can be somewhat irritating but watching her relentlessly light into the defendant for being stupid enough to think that leaving dairy products in a "cold part of his studio" was a sufficient substitute for genuine refrigeration was hysterical. He was getting big mad, too 🤣

Duh it's not rocket science that food will spoil🙄🙄

Coming on the people's court was a great way for the plaintiff to promote her business

This dude is so obtuse. I can’t imagine working with someone like him.

They are both decent people who communicated poorly with each other.

They both dropped the ball. She had at least one opportunity to go over and supervise the photo process he offered and she didn’t take it. The photographer should have taken the time to go over the project with her and get details in writing. A professional would ALWAYS do this with any business to avoid exactly this kind of situation.

The defendant lacks common sense.

Let's be clear - "Common Sense" is no longer common, it's a pleasant surprise.

This man is more dense than a frozen cheesecake. (I'll never get to say that again.)

I "like" how annoyed the defendant sounded when the judge pressed him that he's "not a child" and should know that food spoils: *"SHE LEFT NO INSTRUCTIONS🤷‍♀️"*

Plaintiff definitely wanted to serve Judge a fresh chocolate pie by the end of her verdict rant😂 14:04

3:30 What a piece of crap the defendant is. You would need some type of instruction to handle cheesecake. So, if she dropped off a gallon of ice cream, it's her fault for not telling you to put it in a freezer?

If I was a photographer and my client told me 'here is some frozen food, put it in the freezer and only take it out when you are going to photograph it', I would say 'please don't treat me like a baby, I've photographed food before, I know what I am doing', this guy knew nothing about photographing food and was too ignorant to know to refrigerate food...

OMGoodness the people Harvey interviewed on the street 🤦🏽‍♀️ “it’s not the photographers responsibility to know food needs to be refrigerated” 😂😂😂

Food handling isn't a photographer's job... but if the job taking weeks, it will spoil, and he isn't keeping any of it...

The other thing, too, is that *YES* she should have given him verbal and written instructions on how to care for her products before they were photographed, and *had him repeat the instructions back to her* so that she knew right then and there that he understood them. Seems a bit patronizing, but, no harm in double-checking for clarification.

While the baker breached the contract, and she didn't give proper instructions, you have to be a complete idiot to not realize that dairy will spoil if not put in a fridge or freezer. He just showed himself to be a complete idiot. Anybody over the age of 13 should know that! Likewise, any adult should realize what shelf-stable means.

Yes it's common knowledge that you freeze or refrigerate certain foods but the defendant is there to take photos. He is not responsible for freezing the food. I agree 100% with the verdict.

I did a photoshoot for KFC once, and KFC sent the art director, the marketing head, two graphic designers, plus a higher-up executive, and they micro-managed every tiny detail, including supervising the cooking of the food. It was the hero shot for a food delivery service, and we spent over two hours adjusting the food, and the art director and marketing director constantly over my shoulder at the computer as we took the shots. They didn't care how much time and money they spent to get the final shot, and they weren't leaving until it was perfect according to the way they envisaged the look that represented their product. I loved it. That kind of perfectionism is so easy to work with, and they liked working with a professional photographer with the high-end gear and ability to work with them that they required. Over time there would have been huge numbers of eyeballs on that image and KFC wanted them to all desire the food. What I dislike is clients like this baker. Too busy to turn up to the photoshoot, yet expecting the photographer to be able to read her mind. But then, 300 bucks is a low price, and she ended up getting the result that her actions created. Communication is the single most important element of any photoshoot. However, this photographer was a little short in the communication department as well.

The plaintiff was a little too impatient. She didn't really give the photographer a chance to fix the photos.

Side note: I honestly thought her cheesecake would have been dairy free due to her business being allergen friendly and was hella interested to see how it looked only to find out it wasn't dairy free

Why couldn't the photographer just go to her bakery shop and photograph in front of her?

The people Harvey talking to are idiots 😭😭😭 "He's just a photographer, he doesnt know how to be a baker". All of us have to refrigerate food so it doesn't spoil, it has nothing to do with being a baker lmaooo

Does this man have spoiled food just laying around his house?

I wouldn’t want to do anything for that woman. Talk about picking fly shitt out of pepper. It was a red herring like the judge said. Then constantly trying to interrupt the judge after she made her decision. Imagine working for that witch.

Yup, that was the right ruling. But the judge's last comments doh - ouch!😄

Sooooo the judge was condescending and rude to the defendant for no reason. He is a photographer, not a Baker; and she couldn't even tell the difference until the Plaintiff told her.

"and, by the way it wasn't easy to tell the difference between your pictures and his"...sounds like she has a potential second career as a photographer 🤷🤔

This lady trying to talk during the verdict had me cracking up!🤣

I understand why the plaintiff had second thoughts about a photographer that didn't seem to have common sense about photographing food. But since money was already exchanged and a contract was entered into, she should have been more involved at that point to get the shots that she wanted - like supplying new food and being there when the photoshoot took place. She breached the contract even if he was lacking in common sense.

Photographer should have at least common sense. However the business lady should make certain things unequivocally clear and have proof of what she stated to the photographer.

She wanted him to read her mind? I would have given explicit instructions as to what I wanted and would have most definitely had a contract in place.

Is it just me, or does the one girl behind the plaintiff look like she's in a hostage situation and has been told to keep her head down?

The defendant slower than molasses

Indoctrination vs. common sense that's the world we live in 🙄

I hope everyone has a wonderful Tuesday 🐦☀️

Oh my God who needs to be told that food needs refrigeration?

Why is everyone saying the defendant was arrogant? I didn’t get that vibe lol

I didn’t like how judge was talking to the guy. She didn’t have to bring him down like that on T V. I felt bad for him. Yes it’s common sense but still it’s her duty to supervise and make sure everything is done right. That lady was impossible to deal with.

Would have took my pie back from the judge🙄😂

I had a happy cry at the end of your video. ❤

The plaintiff should've said at the end to JM: "No pie for you !"

IN MY VIEW The photographer is clear and understandable communicating. The baker talked and talked and talked and the only thing I understood her to say was the crust on the keylime pie separated from the keylime.

I think JM got this one wrong. Any idiot knows you refrigerate cheesecake, and I do think that had an effect on the quality of the pictures. He seems like the artsy type who would be very difficult to deal with. His way or nothing. I think the plaintiff had a legitimate gripe.

You cannot let a cheesecake sit unrefrigerated for a week and expect it to look fresh for photographing. Food can't just sit around for days, let alone weeks to be photographed. Unless you are doing a study in composting.

I expect the Key Lime pie to look green.

Dude this is weaponized incompetence at its worse

For a few hundred bucks what a drama it turned out to be for the defendant.

Not the lady at the end trying to use the Yu-Gi-Oh “he went to Italy” trap card 😂 was too late

The plaintiff has buyers remorse

Happy Tuesday y’all!

Like how you handled the redirect Mom😊

Defendant is daft and plaintiff sounds like a pain to work with

ITS CHEESECAKE! It’s absolutely common sense to keep it in the fridge 🤦‍♀️

When he did the throat clearing and pause because JM cut him off then she proceeded to cut him off 😂😂

OK JUDGE MILIAN!!! YOU TOLD THEM!!!

Her passive aggressive last comment about her pics being just as good as the pros for me. 💀 I’m also a photographer and would have cried. 😂

Sadly some people are not born with common sense and the defendant seems to be one of those people.

I don’t see why she should have to continue to work with someone stupid enough to not refrigerate dairy products. That’s like not wanting to keep working with a contractor who you see smashing a hammer into his forehead. I think that’s enough to breach and get your money back. Clearly this man didn’t give a shit about this job.

I'm glad yhe judge called him out for saying oh she did not tell me to refrigerate the products

The big mistake here was telling a photographer to "just take your time, no rush" when photographing fresh baked goods. They should've set up an exact day and time when she would bring the food and he would photograph it right then. And what's wrong with Photoshop? There's no doubt whatsoever that all the big name brands use it for their ads and packaging.

WHAT? The judge is an idiot! Who in their right mind doesn't think that 'food' needs to be refrigerated or frozen, and she brought some that was already frozen, yet he did neither, he just put them aside in a room at temperature room and then weeks later started photographing them, what sort of idiot is he? And he obviously has NEVER photographed food, as he had no idea how to even store the food, so he lied and yet the judge let him get away with it, he should not have won anything...

Watching peoples court I now know why the world is messed up...

This man messed up from the beginning

Plaintiff doesn't have a clue, good lord

It's amazing how many so-called business people end up on here having never done a contract with their client. Even if you were on the smallest level of business there should always be a contract or agreement in writing. If there's anything people should learn from The People's Court it's: always have a written contract, and when money leaves one hand a receipt enters the other.

I'm a professional songwriter, when we're recording with an artist, I'm in the recording studio too. In any production you need to make time to be there to supervise!!!

Great verdict

He’s not too bright 😂

Nice suit😊

Cheese is cheese, it has to be put in a fridge.

I think that she approached it incorrectly. She should've said in the emails that her deserts are getting old for retakes and that doesn't want to reserve another set of deserts to be only for photos. Then proceed to say that the proofs/unedited photos look like smartphone pics. Then mention that she has attached photos that she look with her smartphone (then say what it is). Then say that she still would've used their service if she knew that the quality of pics would be smartphone quality. She would've sent pics that she took and had them edit them. She could've leveled with them and asked to get a discount and just pay for them to edit the photos. They were probably using Photoshop (since that was pretty much the only decent/good photo editing software). Which that program for over 10 years has been on a subscription base only. So if someone else already knows how to use it and they're already paying for the subscription, then at least pay them for editing. Also, $300 is what a lot of people might just charge for editing, so having them edit your own photos with fresh deserts seems like a good option that she should've tried for...

This guys living room consists of a play station and a lawn chair.

Good ruling.

Many people don't know if cheesecake needs to be refrigerated or frozen.

I agree with her ruling.

CPS taught us in parenting class that if you leave milk out of the fridge it can go bad. Same is true for bologna and cheese. Also you should but spoiled food in the garbage and take it out every few days.

This is her fault. How do you drop off food items and expect him to have refrigerators? What did she expect?

So when he goes to the grocery store does he have to have someone tell him what items have to go into the refrigerator or freezer? Common sense is lacking a lot of people in the world

In this case, why didn't they use the theory of habitability? I know they committed to a poor living environment but the law says you're supposed to have lights, water, and other aspects of a habitable environment. In part cases, the judge has given people their money back based on this theory so this one is a little confusing for me. Even if they paid, she'd grant them the return if they didn't have a habitable environment.

Lackadaisical defendant, playing clueless and not saying much got him the win.

Why the defendant acting dumb to the question 🙄🙄🙄🤦🏾‍♀️

Dick Van Dyke don't look like a child!!!😅😂

Who don't know to preserve a cheese cake?? It literally contains dairy...Wth sir...?💀

JM has become irritable and she interrupts way too many times. So annoying.

I am somewhat wondering why neither semmed to commmunicate about storing the merchandise. She didn't tell him - and he didn't ask. I do agree that she was more responsible to tell him that. yeah its obvious that cheesecake needs to be refrigerated, but what about the other stuff? She also needed to be specific about what was wrong with the shots (she stated that the key lime pie crust had separated - but what about the other stuff? It sounded like she should have brought him all new stuff if she felt the food had spoiled in the photos something I've learned from JM that I didn't know before is : you need to give the contractor the chance to fix the mistake - unless there is something preventing them from doing it (like you are both angry) or if one side suddenly disappears (which it sounds like this guy might have done - but didn't get brought up as the main argument in the case

If I was the plaintiff, I would have told the defendant, "Make sure you keep my cheesecakes in a fridge or freezer until you're ready to take pictures of them." I still would have just reminded him, but Judge was right he is a grown man, and everyone knows you are suppose to keep food in a fridge or it will spoil and mold. It's common sense.

When the man gave her a price of $300 I would have ran. The cost should not be that low!!!!

The photos were very poor and none of the items looked enticing. So wether told or not they were not usable from a marketing point of view. My friend does all hers with her phone and they loot so good..

Hires cheap photographer for $300 and she expects him to do the freezing 😂

Ew, I wonder if the pie was smelly when he took them out of the box.

If he claims to be a FOOD photographer, he should give her the money back. Also, May be it’s a tiny difference but how does that matter? The pie is not representative of how she sells them because he doesn’t know food photography 🤷🏻‍♀️

Defendant was negligent , but not to the extent where he doesn’t get paid anything and have to return the money. He did spend the time and effort for taking the photos. Plaintiff is mistaken by thinking by having a web site and good pics , she’s going to be a big rich business . Anybody can set up a site ; but will anybody go to the site ? Usually not. She should try setting up a site with quick pics , and see if it’s doing something, then get professional pics. Business spreads by word of mouth.

She's crazy and just didnt want to pay

Goofball defendant. Incompetent

Lord… 😆🤦🏽‍♀️

He went to ITALY?! How rude?

It's of the Defendant to do nothing with her hair.