Greetings to all my friends in this beautiful community, I hope you had a very nice day, today I want to share with you a set of photographs that I took in my studio and tell you the story behind this photo session and ask you what you would have done in the same situation.

She hired my services because she wanted to take some photos for her birthday, we had agreed on a day at 3:00 pm, when the day arrived she wrote to me exactly 15 minutes before that she was going to arrive "a little late" because she had not finished doing her makeup.

I explained to her that the photo session time would start running at most at 3:15 pm because I had a photo session with another client right after her at 4:20 pm, and I even offered that we could move her photo session to 6:00 pm; that way I could attend to the other client first and this girl would not lose her session time and could take the photos calmly.

I explained to her that normally I am not so strict with the schedule, but on this occasion I had a client right after her, so I had to respect the time of the next person who had already confirmed with me for that day.

The girl's response was that she already had another commitment later so she couldn't postpone the time of her photo session, that she would still go at the agreed time to take whatever photos we could manage to take, and so it was: she arrived 50 minutes late and we only had 20 minutes of photo session, of which she spent about 10 changing clothes, fixing her hair, and doing the light test.

As we started taking the photos I felt bad for her because I felt we were doing everything very rushed and not with the calmness and patience that characterizes my work, and that was noticeable in the girl because she was also sweating from nerves.

In the end, what I did was guide her in a matter of minutes with the poses I already know by heart, so as not to waste time improvising and looking for references, and we managed to pull off these photos against the clock; it was so much so that the girl had not left yet and the next client had already arrived.

And the girl had to pay for the full hour of the photo session even though she only had 20 minutes of time in the studio.

What would you have done?

All photos were taken with my Canon R8 camera, a 50mm lens at f/4 and two light sources.

At the end of the photo session we were all super happy with the results and I hope you like them as much as we did!