So I had a shoot today that didn't exactly go as I had hoped. I was really looking forward to it too. Nothing against the model involved, I was actually impressed by her determination to come through. The problem is she was getting a ride out to my place from Hollywood and her ride's car died at the last minute. She called to tell me she had car troubles but was on her way... this was at 12:15, the shoot was set for 12:00. She said a half hour. At 2pm I call her to find out what is going on... it had been raining and I was concerned. Thats when she told me she was on the bus and it was taking longer than she expected. She said it would drop her off in 20 minutes though so I told her to call me from where she gets dropped off and I'll pick her up. She didn't want to inconvenience me so she walked. This put her arrival at just after 3 pm. Had she told me she was going to take the bus back at 12:15 I would have just rescheduled with her.

The shoot itself was very specific and involved the pool and a man's dress suit. With the rain we have had, we couldn't really heat the pool, so we were working with a cold environment. We got about 2 dozen shots then got her into dry clothes and warm. From there a couple other minor things went wrong and I was now concerned with her taking the bus back to Hollywood at night, so I ended the shoot... everything else I had thought about shooting was really just filler to make the trip worth while... paid her anyway and took her back to the bus stop by 4:15 so she could at least get home before it got too late.

So what should have been a quick 2 hour shoot in the afternoon became a long ordeal and if I'm lucky I got my shot... we'll see. That said, the model impressed me both with her determination and the fact she went into the damn cold pool.

Now I have to get to writing, I have a pitch meeting tomorrow and I need to come up with something to pitch.