Day 834 of 365 Again.
Ok, never doing that again.
Of course I didn’t mean to do it this time.
So a photography studio in Philadelphia outsourced a group glamour shoot to me. 31 models. A few headshots a piece. Fifteen minutes each. I got them to hire on a makeup artist friend of mine for support. Nothing tricky, it should have been some nice simple cash.
Unfortunately, there was a misconnect somewhere and 31 shoots translated into 31 shoots with multiple people. In other words, i spent 12 hours shoot 67 people, the vast majority of which didn’t know what glamour shoot meant. Essentially, I spent the entire day doing poorly prepared family portraits mixed in with glamour and just all kinds of craziness.
Still, I made the best of it, and got it done. Damn near drove me crazy. There were actually two girls who were quite good. If I was in my right mind I might have been in model scout mode with them. Sadly, my right mind had left me some four or five hours before that.
Blah. I think I need some sleep.
Egads that sounds like a hard day. Glad you made it through.
aww sorry. I was worried it would turn out like that..
ouch. that triples the fee. I hope. 🙂
ugh. that’s totally unprofessional on the part of the studio. They should have at the very least prepared you for the true chaos you were looking at. Glad you survived it man.
Just figured it out… they COULDN’T tell you beforehand! You wouldn’t have shown up! Duh
goodness you look pissed…
Go to work and find some peace.
Ack.
@.Mercury: yeah, it was rough.
@SaylaMarz: eh, I thought there’d be a little of that, and I’d just cope. I didn’t realize it would be ALL that.
@Mike Wood Photography: I doubt it. We’ll see. *sigh* Really, the amount of photography I did was identical. it was just the added annoyance factor. Well, it was a little harder, since coordinating multiple people (especially kids) is harder than just shooting one, but it wasn’t triple the work really. Just a lot more time and frusteration.
My makeup artist friend on the other hand, literally ended up doing twice the work she was expecting.
@mickeysacks: well, the studio didn’t know really. At least that’s what they claim, and I’m more or less inclined to believe them. I think the client just kinda decided to believe that she was getting what she wanted, despite instructions.
@lrayholly: oh, I really don’t think they knew. If they did, the would have contracted for more money. It really is a harder thing.
@DeHoll: heh… and that was actually taken at the beginning when I was just starting to realize what was going on. Imagine 12 hours later.
@365bunnies: yep.