Made appointment ahead for an adult family of 4. Talked to them ahead of time: Yes change of your tops is no problem. Yes we can do outdoor/beach and white backdrops only. Sounds good right? Was told plan on 1 hour and we were there ready to go 15 minutes early as instructed even though the photographer was 20 minutes late for work! First customer of the morning. The girl looked like she had partied all night and came to work straight from wherever she ended up passing out - with hangover. When she was ready to get started she didn't even look at the questionnaire we filled out, just said follow me and took us to a room set up as a formal indoor Victorian backdrop with velvet couch (we are wearing jeans and summer colored tee shirts). Then instructions for the pose: 2 of you sit and 2 of you stand! I started to tell her we aren't here for this kind of picture - clearly. Did you read the information? Her response: I'm the artist, trust me, then stood on her tip toes and took a picture! Said: There, done that looks great, now change around a bit! We looked at each other. No one was posed. We were sitting back against the couch waiting to see how she wanted us, guys in back didn't have their hands on our shoulders, nothing. It looked just like it was: four people who walked in and plopped at a bad angle. (every pic she took was on tip toe - chick get a step to have better control of the shot) Every pic she took we had to hurry and quickly pose ourselves - and they all look like that - pictures taken unprofessionally that were armature and undirected. She then said ok we are done here. She got all pissed when we mentioned the clothing change -even though it was only our shirts and made all four of us (2 women and 2 men) change our tops in the lobby of people lucky we had camisoles on. Total time: 20 minutes. Proofs were BAD. Asked for refund bc didn't want any, said no it was prepay package. Filled coin to decide. Pitched them & went elsewhere. PI still sending us stuff even listed as DO NOT WANT! GET A CLUE!
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