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My laptop caught fire and now I have scorched thighs  Sep 18 12 05:23 am Link rp_photo wrote: I agree, but e-mails about the photoshhoot went back and forth up until the night before, and she was enthusiastic until she flaked that morning!!! Sep 18 12 05:50 am Link MainePaintah wrote: What counts most is when the entusiasm began, after which it seems to go on "autopilot" until it hits them the time has come. Sep 18 12 05:54 am Link a model told me on two different occasions that her grandma died. I know some still have grand parents from both sides. She faked on me for a meeting and then pulled the grandam card trice within 6 weeks for each excuse. that is why she is not making money with me. Sep 18 12 06:00 am Link I'd have to say the strangest one came from a woman who cancelled because it "looked like it was going to rain". This was to be a swimsuit shoot near water ... but she didn't want to get rained on. Whatever dude. Honorable mentions include ... the woman who "loves my work" and is "so excited to shoot with me" so we set up a shoot. I contact her the night before to see if we're still on for tomorrow and she says no because she's "going to the beach". She asks ... can we reschedule for 2 days later? I say yes. I contact her 1 day later to see if we're still on and she says no. Her son is sick and if he's not better in the morning, she has to take him to the doctor so she can't shoot. Like I said, whatever. Then there was the woman ... I don't remember the exact days, but we set up a shoot late on a Monday night to shoot early on Wednesday morning. I get a message from her after midnite on Wednesday saying she's not going to just show up without confirmation. In other words, we made the plans 24 hours ago and she still wants confirmation. It doesn't matter that I had been out of the office shooting all day. She wanted confirmation, dammit! I replied to the PM right then and she read it ... but didn't show up for the shoot. It's not the same thing, but I shot with a model once but forgot to ask her to sign the release. I told her I needed her to sign so we needed to meet. It shouldn't take more than 5 minutes and it didn't matter where we met as we weren't shooting. She said okay but didn't show up for our meeting and didn't return my messages (sent by any medium). I'm sure she's angry with me because she "didn't get her pictures" but I think I went over and above trying to get them to her without breaking my own neck. Sep 18 12 06:06 am Link Lovely Day Media wrote: I hate it when weather "teeters" in the hours before a shoot, as it brings out just how serious the model is. Sep 18 12 11:15 am Link Rik Image wrote: I met an agency model once that actually did have scorched inner thighs. She spilled hot cooking oil on herself and still had the bandages on. She still came out for the shoot! Sep 18 12 11:35 am Link Rik Image wrote: Possible, considering older laptop batteries. Sep 18 12 11:41 am Link Herman Surkis wrote: People salvage unprotected 18650 batteries from laptops for their flashlights. If 2 or more batteries differ in voltage due to varying discharge rates, then they can go in a melt down, and in a water-tight flashlight host, the pressure builds up, leading to an explosion. Sep 18 12 12:28 pm Link Sarah Thiessen wrote: I guess you better be at the top of the game to book this model. Let's see... you went to see your boyfriend but decided to work instead of seeing him. Then you backed out on a guy that had already committed money to the project so you can see your boyfriend instead. That is okay because you are doing the concept with a better photographer later in the week. And it is okay because you made your priority 1) the better photographer 2) your boyfriend 3) the poor sucker with a concept not completely original, who put money up to work with you. Do I have it straight? Yes, you are right. This is all his fault. Sep 18 12 05:02 pm Link Cassie Hepler wrote: In this case, probably not Fashion TV - http://www.fashiontv.com/ - so I'd guess the "First Time Video" adult website. Sep 18 12 05:52 pm Link FTV is an adult themed website. First time video. My Ex Gf did a shoot for them. I can understand the Masturbator being worn out, my ex ame back exhausted too. although the resulting photos and video were actually quite good. Oct 04 12 02:06 am Link I was on location with video camera ready to roll, lights all in place, all ready to shoot a hot tub commercial. Client there, MUA there, ad agency there, no bikini model. Calls to her went unanswered. I had never worked with that model before so I didn't know what to expect. Ultimately, someone went to her home to check on her. No one there. MUA had two very nice looking friends who came in and did the shoot. Turns out the original model had been arrested the night before. Oct 04 12 01:44 pm Link Here's one with a happy ending. After working out a shoot with this particular "model" spending over an hour on the phone discussing ideas and her "just dying to work with me" and "really committed" to the project and her upcoming modelling career. We set a date. But I must admit I was a little sceptical about her. At about the same time another newcomer conta VTcted me to organise a shoot. She lived only a couple of km's away. Anyway, on the morning of the shoot, as I had assumed, no call, no show. I tried to call, and text, but no answer. So I called the other model, she was ready to go and we did the shoot without hassle. In fact she has turned out to be a fantastic addition to my model base. Since then we have done a couple more shoots and all have had great outcomes. Oh and about a day later, I finally get a message from the original "model". It turns out she slept in. Very committed indeed. At least her Grandmother seems to have survived the ordeal. Anyway, in the end I'm glad it happened. As I now have the addition of the really committed model and muse. Kate-Victoria #2705978  Thank you Kate for your commitment and being a true model. Oct 05 12 03:19 pm Link RebeccaChristine wrote: I knew you were in England by the 2nd paragraph. A very Brit thing to do. ;-) Oct 06 12 07:01 am Link Anna Adrielle wrote: [Looking] looks like a pile of crap, [Sniff Sniff] smells like crap. Well then, the excuse might really have been a load of crap. The no call, last minute or last second cancellations give models that full of shit vibe too. But you're probably right, it's probably legit. Oct 06 12 07:22 am Link "I've been having sevire pain in my head that makes me have panic attakes that makes me go to de hospital ! its realy not fun and i been having too miss college ! so unfortunaly i cant go take picture with you because that was witgh my school hour !! i reallyy sorry for that , maybe another time" (Apparently they don't teach "SPELLING" until "college" "Really sorry for the miscommunication. Honestly I did think I responded with my email, but not that I think about it, I remember I was going to change my email back to vanessa.***** rather than the vanessa.**** I've been using and must have gotten side tracked and never sent the message back. I didn't want to bug you so I figured that you would respond to my "still on" message with some details, I wasn't really thinking when I sent it, I just got back from Maine and answered the first thing I thought of intending to start a dialogue. Again I'm really sorry, and I would like to pay you for what you would normally charge for a shoot, I certainly didn't intend for you to miss a day of work." (Again sorry and I will pay you....Yeah right) Worst excuse is no excuse ...not answering Texts, emails, voice mail, phone calls, and leaving you hanging wondering if you should prepare or just blow it off Oct 06 12 07:42 am Link Anna Adrielle wrote: I had to cancel my whole NYC/Connecticut/Boston trip because photographers cancelled on me, so by the time I paid to have my car fixed, and the insurance, I had not a single dollar to put in the gas tank. I had already borrowed money from everyone I could, so I couldn't do anything about it. And it sounds like the most ridiculous excuse probably to all the photographers. Half of them didn't even reply to my message when I told them. But if this is my full time job why would I turn down paid work in 3 different states that I had been planning for weeks? Oct 06 12 07:43 am Link Darren Brade wrote: What? How would you ever work with them then if you don't have a studio? Only do location shoots? Pay them for something you don't need, still losing money that way. Oct 06 12 07:43 am Link Rhiannon Davis wrote: Well, if something happened to him right before the shoot I could see that. I wouldn't be pleased either but it could be a legit excuse. Oct 06 12 07:46 am Link The classic work call after I said no to her boyfriend coming as llama herder: 'Unfortunatelly i got a call from work today, they want me in at 11. I'm really sorry about this.' I did say to her that I wouldn't have a problem if a (female) friend is coming, or someone for her make up. In case she's uncomfortable. By the way, the Shoot would have been right in the city centre, couldn't have been more public place than this... Oct 06 12 07:59 am Link Sugar Sharai wrote: Well, as long as you cancelled the shoot because of your devotion to your long-distance boyfriend. Certainly, nobody could question your dedication to modeling or have a problem with those priorities. Oct 06 12 08:01 am Link One of my very first shoots. "I auditioned for a porn yesterday and I'm still sore." Oct 06 12 08:02 am Link My Grandma died (again) Oct 06 12 08:06 am Link Darren Brade wrote: MesmerEyes Photography wrote: I would never outlay an expense that was contingent on one internet model, I'd never worked with, showing up. That's a risk-reward ratio that is heavily skewed. Oct 06 12 08:07 am Link Matt Throop Photography wrote: Yup, had a photog blame me because he sent an email with a suggested date and I emailed back saying, "Sure, that works. Can you send me your address and tell me what to bring?" (He was in a big city two hours away) I tried messaging him a couple of times, but he never replied except after the date had passed asking why I hadn't shown up. Oct 07 12 01:42 pm Link "My mom doesn't want me to go because it's raining." Oct 07 12 02:20 pm Link Makeup artist sent me an email 15 hours before the shoot, telling me she had taken a different job because it paid more than I was paying, and that she knew I'd understand. Not a text, not a phone call; an email. I didn't see it until less than 10 hours before the shoot, by which time it was late Saturday night--not the best time to look for a replacement for Sunday morning--especially since all the artists I usually work with were unavailable,which is why I hired her in the first place.) I understood that it was the first time I'd hired her, that she'd proven herself to be short-sighted and untrustworthy, and that I'd never contact her for a job again. Oct 07 12 02:30 pm Link Not really a flake as she did show up eventually. On route driving to me she got lost and phoned me for directions. So naturally I ask "can you tell me where are you now"? Answer, "why do you need to know that"? Oct 07 12 02:51 pm Link David J Martin wrote: I have no doubt that's often the case. not always though. Oct 07 12 05:03 pm Link Brightonian wrote: Part of me hopes that someday, somebody gives me this excuse for not showing up. Providing that it includes the "(again)" bit. Oct 07 12 05:31 pm Link Once I had 2 different llamas tell me I was not the right nationality to take their photographs after we arrived on set. Oct 07 12 05:37 pm Link Some of those excuses are awesome. I got pissed and fell over taking a huge chunk out of my knee the night before a shoot once. I called in the morning to warn them and check they still wanted me to come. I still showed up and the shoot was fine, although if you look carefully at a couple of my pictures you can see the plaster and blood. Hmm, not my finest moment, felt a bit of a muppet. It does seem like people do have a big problem with flakes and sadly the fact there are so many it makes people suspicious of real reasons. I'm sure some of them, especially the more obscure are genuine though. Oct 08 12 06:01 am Link I emailed (24 hours before shoot) and received a reply 72 hours later that I hadn't given an address or contact number lol. WTF...if she had replied I would have lol. Oh, and I had no other contact information for her. Oh well. Oct 08 12 06:06 am Link There seems to be a huge amount of disrespect for this industry amongst many people that claim to want to get involved...it's too easy for decent-looking girls nowadays to go 'O I WANNA MODEL' and then not have to balls when it comes down to it to actually walk the walk... Your word should be your bond... Oct 08 12 06:35 am Link CherryPie Suicide wrote: I wished these models had the balls to be a model. Oct 08 12 08:23 am Link CherryPie Suicide wrote: as if photographers never flake? or make up artists? Oct 08 12 08:29 am Link Rik Image wrote: That literally made me lol. Oct 08 12 08:55 am Link "My Lord Dagon has given me the gift of gills, that I might better fathom the depths of the black waters. Still self conscious about them, though. Sry." "I sacrificed my grandma (again) to The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young! IA IA SHUB-NIGGURATH! A little shaken up, can't make it." "I accidentally tempered my Sigil of the Watcher on a crescent moon instead of a full moon, so it will be of no use during our shoot." "Grandma just came back to life (again)." Folks, if you're going to perform the blasphemous rituals from the Book of the Black Earth or worship forgotten, dead (but dreaming) gods just before a shoot, please RTFM. edit: no, srsly, the worst I've ever heard was, after agreeing to a TF shoot, someone demanding just hours ahead of the shoot to be paid in money. Oct 08 12 09:16 am Link Anna Adrielle wrote: The entire point of this thread is to share your worst excuses. Yet you seem to be more interested in replying to every model flake story by reiterating that photographers flake too. Oct 08 12 09:18 am Link |
Travel time is really what gets me.. But its not like they pay for my gas or anything, i asked him to shoot 2 weeks prior, he booked a studio, and i felt TERRRIBLEE.. But he had another model booked as well.. And i already have the same concept booked later in the week, when i had asked to reschedule, (almost 2 weeks in advance) and he said me asking to reschedule will result in a disservice... ? Are you serious? 
