I was wrong
I was wrong about the hair stylist I worked with the other night. She didn't ditch us, she is actually pretty nice. So I felt bad about that comment I made thinking her and her boss walked off on us with their nose stuck up. I get too used to the in San Francisco areas like that. Downtown is a mix of homeless and rich and the rich and snobby brats. I was taking pictures of one of the models and this one guy kept on Moo-ing as he walked past and it pissed me off. Me and her are about the same size, and true the stylist put her in straight up gold tights she said she'd never wear normally that made her legs look big, she's not that big at all. She took the best pictures. I just told him to take his retarded drunk ass some were else. At least his friends kept telling him to stop, he was so obnoxious. Anyways, the stylist asked how the shoot went, and I told her I felt bad I couldn't get really good hair shots, that the shoot was totally out of control and I didn't know everyone was going to bring someone else into the salon including a child. That was her main problem, she told her boss only the models were coming up. The stylist brought her 17 year old daughter, one model brought a friend, another brought a 3 year old. Then the stylist just set up the closet area for the girls to get dressed in without asking, I didn't know she did that. I was horrified. Just the rudeness, I told everyone this was the hair stylists place of work so we have to be real cool in there and just stay to the side, and it was a total mess.
For some reason the hair stylist asked for another shoot. I thought she'd hate me by now for that kind of crap that happened, I've never had a shoot go so wrong ever. It's embarrassing and most people would mark you off as unprofessional. But she said she has a MUA and a model in mind so she just wants me to take the pictures. I was like sure, whatever she wants I owe her good pictures still. And she wants me to not do anything but take the pictures, thats fine by me. I'm not a make up artist, I shouldn't be doing that and putting the whole shoot together for someone else anyways. If you want something done right do it yourself.
So I want to vent out about another client that irritated me yesterday. I met him at 9pm Wednesday night last week, didn't know I was taking night shots of him and his girlfriend I mean "artist" la la la together for every single shoot. It's difficult enough to take pictures of one person at night as I told him many times but two? They have to both be totally still for 10 to 30 seconds. I have to constantly adjust the settings to my camera as the different light changes. It's difficult, and even for my really good night shoots I usually only got 5 good shots from it. Which is normal for any shoot. I got about 30 good shots from the night shoot I did for a car group with models, but it was one person at a time, a car and one spot we didn't move. With this other guy, he asked for twin peaks, I said is there enough lighting up there he said oh yeah there is lots. Turns out there wasn't. I tried but it's not as great of a location to shoot at night as I thought, one picture turned out cool though. I drove them all over market then threw downtown and broadway, they were not really helpful at that point. I saw the broadway tunnel and they liked that. I said ok we can try it, it's a risk. I got a few good pictures out of that, which was difficult because the lighting changes a lot as cars drive in the tunnel. So after that we tried market. Which was a pain in the ass one guy actually walked in front of my shot to ask me something I blew up! I said "Are you out of your mind? Do you know how hard this is and your just walking in front of my shot?!" the guy looked horrified he had his mouth left open and frozen from his question he was about to ask. I breathed for a minute, and said ok, sorry, what is it that you want. He still couldn't believe I blew up at him and stuttered trying to find his words, or think of something to say. Then he said "Are you taking pictures of those guys across the street we were just talking about it and they wanted to know" I said "NO! the camera is pointed at these people posing in front of me, obviously!" It was just so stupid I really ticked me off. Even if my camera was pointed way across the street, at a homeless guy in the dark, I wouldn't have been able to capture anything in that dark even if I did have a better lense for it. And the camera was pointed at two people in another direction obviously posing for the last half hour for me. It was just so stupid. So I still got a couple pretty good shots from that.
The end of the night though it was such a difficult shoot I told them sorry about that, if nothing good comes out of the shoot I'll do another one for them for free. They said "No it's ok we understand. We asked for those difficult locations" Which they did and I gave plenty of warnings. I later one fixed 5 pictures of my choosing, I do that for free by the way. I only fixed 5, not because there were no others I could clean up, but because they looked stiff and boring in all the other pictures. Total payed, $50.00. For me to spend from 9-1:30am with these people taking really difficult shots. $50! When I sent the pictures to the guy, just the 5 fixed before I send the CD of all the pictures, he said oh cool. He didn't complain about the pictures, just said we need some more shots now, hows your schedule looking. I told him, and he said cool. So we are going to get this shoot for free? I said, no. Are you telling me you don't like the pictures. He said "we only like 2 of them to use, you said we can have a free shoot" I said "No, I said if none of them come out clear I'll give you a free shoot. I cleaned up 5 pictures for you, spent 4 hours driving you around all over the city taking pictures at the places of your choice. I warned you that night shots are difficult and you wouldn't get that many good pics out of it" What did he expect? Why was the 5 I cleaned and getting a CD not good enough? He was trying to hustle me, because it was funny how when he was with his girlfriend he had a totally different tune talking about I worked hard and he knew how the shoot would be. Now he's insulting my work pretty much, to get a free shoot. Then he tried to say "Wasn't your camera not working right?" I did complain at one point about the camera flipping modes on the lighting on me, but that was in the tunnel and at market and it was really just the lighting constantly changing. But, supposedly, this guy is an artist in music. So you'd think he'd understand, but obviously not, so I'm cool with not working with him again, especially not for free. So he emailed me later, because all this was said in text (instead of over the phone were I could tell him he had more pictures coming on a CD dumbass) "Me and J discussed it and decided we no longer need anymore pictures. Thank you and best of luck to you" as if this was some sort of "Your fired" email. Guess what, go find another photographer who will do your pictures for $50, or better yet for free, and see what you get. Most of the photographers out here can't even do night shots, and if they did they'd charge at least $300 and they will give you one good picture. So I'm not feeling bad at all sorry!
I know this is grainy on them but I like the effect, I'd just make them darker if anything I should. People on Model Mayhem like it.
It's not my best, but considering what I was working with I don't think I need to give people another shoot for free, that's another 5 hours possibly into more pictures and gas and wear and tear on my car and my mind. Forget it!
For some reason the hair stylist asked for another shoot. I thought she'd hate me by now for that kind of crap that happened, I've never had a shoot go so wrong ever. It's embarrassing and most people would mark you off as unprofessional. But she said she has a MUA and a model in mind so she just wants me to take the pictures. I was like sure, whatever she wants I owe her good pictures still. And she wants me to not do anything but take the pictures, thats fine by me. I'm not a make up artist, I shouldn't be doing that and putting the whole shoot together for someone else anyways. If you want something done right do it yourself.
So I want to vent out about another client that irritated me yesterday. I met him at 9pm Wednesday night last week, didn't know I was taking night shots of him and his girlfriend I mean "artist" la la la together for every single shoot. It's difficult enough to take pictures of one person at night as I told him many times but two? They have to both be totally still for 10 to 30 seconds. I have to constantly adjust the settings to my camera as the different light changes. It's difficult, and even for my really good night shoots I usually only got 5 good shots from it. Which is normal for any shoot. I got about 30 good shots from the night shoot I did for a car group with models, but it was one person at a time, a car and one spot we didn't move. With this other guy, he asked for twin peaks, I said is there enough lighting up there he said oh yeah there is lots. Turns out there wasn't. I tried but it's not as great of a location to shoot at night as I thought, one picture turned out cool though. I drove them all over market then threw downtown and broadway, they were not really helpful at that point. I saw the broadway tunnel and they liked that. I said ok we can try it, it's a risk. I got a few good pictures out of that, which was difficult because the lighting changes a lot as cars drive in the tunnel. So after that we tried market. Which was a pain in the ass one guy actually walked in front of my shot to ask me something I blew up! I said "Are you out of your mind? Do you know how hard this is and your just walking in front of my shot?!" the guy looked horrified he had his mouth left open and frozen from his question he was about to ask. I breathed for a minute, and said ok, sorry, what is it that you want. He still couldn't believe I blew up at him and stuttered trying to find his words, or think of something to say. Then he said "Are you taking pictures of those guys across the street we were just talking about it and they wanted to know" I said "NO! the camera is pointed at these people posing in front of me, obviously!" It was just so stupid I really ticked me off. Even if my camera was pointed way across the street, at a homeless guy in the dark, I wouldn't have been able to capture anything in that dark even if I did have a better lense for it. And the camera was pointed at two people in another direction obviously posing for the last half hour for me. It was just so stupid. So I still got a couple pretty good shots from that.
The end of the night though it was such a difficult shoot I told them sorry about that, if nothing good comes out of the shoot I'll do another one for them for free. They said "No it's ok we understand. We asked for those difficult locations" Which they did and I gave plenty of warnings. I later one fixed 5 pictures of my choosing, I do that for free by the way. I only fixed 5, not because there were no others I could clean up, but because they looked stiff and boring in all the other pictures. Total payed, $50.00. For me to spend from 9-1:30am with these people taking really difficult shots. $50! When I sent the pictures to the guy, just the 5 fixed before I send the CD of all the pictures, he said oh cool. He didn't complain about the pictures, just said we need some more shots now, hows your schedule looking. I told him, and he said cool. So we are going to get this shoot for free? I said, no. Are you telling me you don't like the pictures. He said "we only like 2 of them to use, you said we can have a free shoot" I said "No, I said if none of them come out clear I'll give you a free shoot. I cleaned up 5 pictures for you, spent 4 hours driving you around all over the city taking pictures at the places of your choice. I warned you that night shots are difficult and you wouldn't get that many good pics out of it" What did he expect? Why was the 5 I cleaned and getting a CD not good enough? He was trying to hustle me, because it was funny how when he was with his girlfriend he had a totally different tune talking about I worked hard and he knew how the shoot would be. Now he's insulting my work pretty much, to get a free shoot. Then he tried to say "Wasn't your camera not working right?" I did complain at one point about the camera flipping modes on the lighting on me, but that was in the tunnel and at market and it was really just the lighting constantly changing. But, supposedly, this guy is an artist in music. So you'd think he'd understand, but obviously not, so I'm cool with not working with him again, especially not for free. So he emailed me later, because all this was said in text (instead of over the phone were I could tell him he had more pictures coming on a CD dumbass) "Me and J discussed it and decided we no longer need anymore pictures. Thank you and best of luck to you" as if this was some sort of "Your fired" email. Guess what, go find another photographer who will do your pictures for $50, or better yet for free, and see what you get. Most of the photographers out here can't even do night shots, and if they did they'd charge at least $300 and they will give you one good picture. So I'm not feeling bad at all sorry!
I know this is grainy on them but I like the effect, I'd just make them darker if anything I should. People on Model Mayhem like it.
It's not my best, but considering what I was working with I don't think I need to give people another shoot for free, that's another 5 hours possibly into more pictures and gas and wear and tear on my car and my mind. Forget it!