In future for photo recovery I can highly recommend this:
PhotoRec - CGSecurity (for photos)
and its companion
TestDisk - CGSecurity (general)
They're both free, work with many common filesystems and cross-platform so you're not instantly f'cked if you use a proper operating system as opposed to the usual legacy filth from Microsoft.
It pulled stuff off memory cards which had been repartitioned, formatted etc which commercial recovery software (proper gear; £10k+ paid by former employer) could not retrieve.