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Unlikely excuses for cancellations
1. Model on phone: Hi Craig, Iâm in the area early, do you mind if I come over now, since I donât know where else to go and wait for our appointment. 2. Or better yet, this new model Iâm working with brings her own personal assistant that organizes her wardrobe, fixes her hair, helps with makeup, each time weâve shot, the new model asks if itâs ok if Maya comes with her to the shoot. 3. Same new model tells me during a phone conversation that her friend has been admiring my work and would love for me to photograph her dog. As it turns out, we were planning on shooting with a dog so this will be the best of both worlds. Damn these internet models. Aug 12 06 11:39 am Link . Aug 12 06 11:39 am Link "I died." Aug 12 06 11:42 am Link Unlikely cancelations....mmmm....lets see........ " the aliens took me????.." that would be unlikely......hahaha  Aug 12 06 11:43 am Link  Aug 12 06 11:48 am Link I had a friend cancel meeting for a school project because she thought she wan gonna get laid...the meeting was at night...to give her some credit. Aug 12 06 11:48 am Link Christine Summers wrote: You bring up a great point- this is one of the reasons I ask models what their goals are. If a girl just wants fun, attention, to look pretty, to look like a model- its definitely a consideration in my decision whether I wanna book her or not. Aug 12 06 11:49 am Link I once had a model no-show for a shoot.....i drove 90 minutes to the shoot, was passing a kidney stone at the time. I waited an hour...no phone call..no model...I drove home...passed my stones (2 of them) I emailed her and said it was a great day for shooting...slightly cloudy, cool temps and noone at the location to bother us. 3 days later i receive a response. She lost her internet access...her phone had been shut off...she was sick....had a miscarriage...lost my number...had no money for food or gas....car broke down....just moved...needed money....ALL IN ONE PARAGRAPH of the email. I could understand the car breaking down or the miscarriage...but please be kind and give me just 1 excuse...NOT 6 or 7. Aug 12 06 11:49 am Link Jose Luis wrote: Just? Isn't that what every girl wants? Aug 12 06 11:51 am Link How about this excuse ?: My hair is being FEDEXED from the states. Aug 12 06 05:13 pm Link Christine Summers wrote: Actually your profile called you a professional, and I quote: Aug 13 06 03:09 am Link Fuzzybear Photography wrote: that is the BEST ! wonder if she got it past customs. Aug 13 06 03:15 am Link oh duuuude I have one of my own excuses for this one, only it wasn't an excuse it really happenned. I was in the bathroom running the blow dryer and I heard something slam against the door. I have four room mates and they're always pounding things so I didnt think much of it at the time. I finished drying my hair, then went to open the door, and the damn thing wouldn't budge. I thought one of my roomies was holding the door shut so I pushed harder, then started kicking the door and screaming. No response whatsoever. Not even a giggle. I looked under the door through through the crack expecting to see a pair of feet. What I saw was the ironing board. My room mate wedged it into the door frame, locking me in the bathroom. It was meant as a practical joke, but he went outside to smoke a cigarette and forgot. Meanwhile, his brother pulls up to drive him to work, he gets in the car, and I'm stuck in the bathroom. Its 12 o clock, the photo shoot starts in forty five minutes. So I'm the only one home, locked in the bathroom with no phone for two and a half hours. at almost three o clock, another room mate comes home, and when I hear the front door open I start screaming again, (and I am livid and screaming all sorts of obscenities at this point). He lets me out, I call the photographer and attempt to explain, but he totally didn't believe it. Not that I blame him or anything. Aug 13 06 05:30 am Link My all time fave was..... "But my horse AND dog are sick". I'm not kidding. This was after two weeks of luke to very warm emails...an appt. set, cancellations with other work affected....and she cancelled the night before. No follow-up thereafter. That was 4 months ago! Aug 13 06 05:39 am Link Art Schotz wrote: Your most likely not a busy photographer out there in Lima so time is not an issue for ya. Aug 13 06 10:26 am Link Star wrote: Nowhere does that say I'm a professional model, if you care to look at my profile, it says I am a student at USC. That hasn't changed, nor will it for the foreseeable future! Aug 13 06 06:42 pm Link Amanda Schlicher wrote: If you felt that strongly about it, I guess I wonder what goes through your mind to say, yeah, ... yeah, porn, uh huh.... I'll shoot porn. Sounds GREAT! Aug 13 06 09:15 pm Link A few weeks ago the model called me from right down the street. She needed directions to my studio and had gotten lost. I gave her directions and was expecting her within a few minutes. After about thirty minutes I called her back on her cell and asked what happened. She said that she couldn't talk because the police officer had pulled her over and she was driving on a suspended license. The next day I found out she was arrested for a warrent. I have since worked with her - and I honestly believe she was arrested - but that's the weirdest one I've had so far. Aug 13 06 09:21 pm Link I dunno. I'm still waiting to hear from Ms. No Response-No Show from today!  Dog ate the cell phone? Naw she had my email too. Dog ate the cell phone AND chewed thru the computer cord? Sigh ....a gorgeous day in ATlanta, near 80 degrees and partly cloudy and it was wasted. Aug 13 06 09:26 pm Link OK, well having read this thread through, I have a couple of comments to make. Some seriously weird shit really does happen, LOL. But I'll say this and you've heard me say this enough times before so its starting to sound redundant but its worth an observation. When I was an engineer, I worked with true professionals. They were assholes, dicks, incompetent fuckers, and very irritating dumbasses, but they were almost always professional, courteous, methodical, structured, and organized. Also ugly, hairy, and very intelligent. And they made a shit load of money. They didnt have car troubles. When they did, they pulled out the spare car. They GOT there. Because they were professional. They really took the job seriously, they took their title of professional seriously. In this industry its like the extreme opposite end of the scale. Disorganization galore. Beautiful beautiful people. Young. Inexperienced. No offense, but not very bright much of the time. They live on the edge of society -- often penniless, nearly evicted. Enamored with the term "professional" without having the slightest idea what that means. Things always go wrong in their lives because there is no cushion, no plan B. They cant afford it. I've learned to accept it and work around it. In the stage of career I'm at, I dont work with Kate Moss. I work with young people at the edge of society. Weird shit happens, as documented here. Its a different world than where I came from. But I choose this world over that one. Beauty in chaos is more fun that professional stagnation. I'm being objective in my judgement, observing the trade off, and making an informed choice to enjoy this industry for what it is, at least at my level. Aug 13 06 09:39 pm Link |
