Is It Out of Scope? — Web development

Is expanding photography beyond the shot list out of scope for a web development project?

Yes. Shooting photography isn't a development task at all, regardless of how many additional shots are requested.

This occasionally reaches the dev side of a project when placeholder images are still in the build and the client asks whoever's building the pages to "just get more photos."

Is it out of scope?

Yes. Photography is a shoot-and-produce discipline entirely separate from implementation — development doesn't cover it at any quantity.

Clause typically implicated

Clause typically implicated

Exclusions clausePhotography production is excluded from a development scope regardless of shot count.

Example contract wording

Example contract wording (illustrative, not legal advice)

New photography isn't something the development scope covers — that's a shoot, separate from building the pages. I can flag it to whoever handled the original shot list.

How MarginFlow flags it

MarginFlow flags photography requests outside_scope on development contracts, since shoot production sits outside every deliverable category a dev SOW covers.

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