My Photography - Kayla

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Yesterday afternoon I had another paid photoshoot. I took cap & gown photos for a friend/acquaintance. We haven't spoken in years other than some random Facebook comments here and there. My friend Megan (the 1st girl I started taking photos of) was supposed to take these photos for her but I got a message late Thursday night asking if I could do them. I agreed, of course, because I love taking photos and she is a friend and I can trust her to pay me. While talking to Megan about doing Kayla's Megan told me she just didn't have the time to do them and that Kayla needed them by this Friday, June 9th. I was like okay a little late of a notice but since I have a lot of free time this weekend I could do them. Well, while talking to Kayla during the photo shoot she told me that she has been asking Megan for over 2 months to set up a date to take the photos. She told me that she was even paying Megan twice as much as what I had asked her for. Megan had done her senior photos because Kayla and since Kayla had won Megan's giveaway the photos were free. She told me that she spent all day with Megan taking photos and when she got the photos back she only got 10 and only 2-3 of them were decent enough for her to use. Kayla was not happy with the end result of the photos. She said they were definitely worth being free because she wouldn't have paid a professional photography for that quality of photos. She said she only asked her to do these because she didn't know of anyone else that was affordable for her but had better quality. What really made me and Kayla question Megan is that she had known for 2 months that Kayla needed the photos done but she told both of us she just didn't have the time to do them. Then she told Kayla last minute (a week before she needed them) that she wasn't taking any more photos right now because she was so busy with her new job, etc. The thing is she has only been working this job for 2 weeks and didn't have a job at all before this one, yesterday when I took them she was out at the lake (said she has been waiting to meet her new uncle & couldn't go) but she only knew about the uncle this last week. What about the month & half advance that Kayla had been asking to set a date to take them? We both think she had plenty of time to take & edit them but she just didn't want to or isn't serious about doing photography & starting her own business like she claims to be or she would have found the time. This is my favorite photo from what we did yesterday and she loved the photos I took of her. It took me a total of 4 hours to take the photos, go through them, edit them, and then send them to her. I got it all done in one day and she loved that I got them done so fast. We spent an hour taking photos and I was able to give her 25 photos before midnight last night.