So I hired an acquaintance from college to do our wedding and engagement photos because she has had a photography business for a few years now and has taken family photos for us before. She was also one of very few photographers who doesn't edit photos to be super dark and moody. I prefer photos that are natural toned - not super bright, but not the darker style that's become popular lately. I knew I hired her pretty early since it was close to 2 years before our wedding is supposed to take place, but originally I planned to have engagement photos taken in December or January and wasn't sure if we wanted to wait until this year. Well we got busy so our winter engagement photos will be this year instead.
To the issue: in the last few months she has completely revamped her social media and has deleted every image in the style I liked and is now showcasing the dark, moody style I absolutely hate. Is it rude to ask her to go back to her old style specifically for our wedding or should I just eat the deposit I gave her and find someone else? I don't want to offend her, especially because we have mutual friends, but if this was the style she had when I was looking for a photographer I wouldn't have even considered her.
I'm so torn mostly because we had photography classes together and I can understand as an artist being offended by someone asking me to change my style, but at the same time I am paying her to take photos so I would like them to be what I want.
