Showing posts with label short notice shooting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label short notice shooting. Show all posts

Saturday, May 15, 2021

Fun in the Fields









Had another two shoots canceled at short notice. One was within hours, the other 48 hours. The latter was genuinely unavoidable and I will rebook, when she’s fully recovered. 


Within an hour, Silvai got in touch, wanting to shoot, on Thursday, thus filling my postponement.  


Given the pandemic and COVID’s perpetual mutations, I’m swerving studio settings but happy with location-based work. Given the weather was fair, she wanted to revisit the yellow field theme, which had been rained off twelve days previously.  


As usual, she was impeccably prepared and ready to shoot. She'd also brought an additional outfit for a different backdrop, which we were able to fit in. As before, she was impeccably presented, posed seamlessly and had a very clear idea of what she wanted from our time. 


I was also saddened, but not surprised to learn that she’d been receiving inappropriate messages and communications from “photographers” on the networking sites. Thankfully these allow users to report and block inappropriate people. However, there are always those that slip through the net. 


Two hours well spent and before the rains came.  

 

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