Greetings,
first of all i want to go into the provided picture, the competitors material and the editing. Now, of course you can do quite something with editing as @Buoart. The difference here is and unfortunately, @Buoart is not enhancing quality, but simply using a very good camera to get these shots. Also his photograpy itself delivers an already very good output. The lighting is good, the resolution is good and many of the shots are made outside to produce real lighting instead of a few studio lights.
With the few materials you provided its sometimes really difficult to archieve this particular result, especially with the male model, where the backgrounds exposure is just way too high.
For images of this quality and in general - 1000 pictures for 180$ is unfortunately not enough, considering that every single image takes at least 10-15 minutes, if not more.
Lets say you work 10 minutes on an image. It would take you a total amount of 166 hours to get through all 1000 images, resulting in an entire month of work and a wage of 0.9$ an hour.
However, if you are still in need and of course adapting the pricing, just leave me a message and ill gonna hand you over a sample work of mine.
Best regards
Maurice Bauert l Digital Defect - Blending Reality