Had very long messaging saga on another site, this week for a booking. The photographer even asked for all my body measurements, as in shoulder to mid calf and more, as he said he'd would have a dress made for me..So I sent all the details off to him...
After a lot of correspondence, he STILL hadn't given me the Postcode of MUA's location, a lady booked for shoot, for my makeup, so I could feed the Postcode into my Sat Nav...
I sent yet another message back, to photographer concerned, stating, please may I have your mobile number and Postcode of MUA for shoot...and he sent the postcode of where he lived in Somerset, NOT the Postcode of the MUA for shoot, which was suppose to be in Cornwall! Even her website didn't give an address, just a contact form, which I duly filled in and asked politely, please what is your address as we are booked to do a shoot together - no reply...
So yet again, I messaged back photographer concerned and asked for Postcode of MUA where we were suppose to meet up... please. Then she was suppose to do my makeup and photographer and I would go onto location...
Still didn't know location of MUA though...and then one eve, I got home rather tired after a full day's shoot with another photographer and saw the 'made a dress for you' photographer had messaged me yet again,
He said, that because the MUA pulled out, he had decided not to go ahead, so booking cancelled. He said he would shoot with me in the future...yep, well that usually means, never...What a waste of time...I could easily have found another more reliable MUA, or done the makeup myself...have had shoots before where MUA didn't turn up and boy, was I glad I had taken my own makeup case, so those shoots still went ahead in those particular instances.
The week before, another paid booking (2 hour drive there) turned into nothing, because the only day photographer could shoot was a Thursday, a day I had appointments - after I changed round all my appointments to another day to accommodate the photographer, so we could shoot on the Thursday that he had free, he then changed his mind and said shoot not happening...oh, for goodness sake...
There are all sorts of reasons for shoots not happening...but on the positive side, sometimes a last minute booking comes in, and it's all systems go...
Don't give up...stay positive.
Posted 4 Nov 2014
Edited by SuzyMonty 4 Nov 2014