melanie_g

<p>Great work...I am especially drawn to how you used deep, jewel-tones colors throughout to complement their clothing and set the mood. The only constructive criticism that I would offer is to work a bit harder to capture and release images of the female's face that are a bit more flattering. Her face looks, although clearly having a great time, a bit wide at times. Awesome work though!!</p>

<p>Rick - yes. thank you very much. everything you said rings very true to my own personal sense of "right and wrong", so to speak. I think you hit the nail on the head when you asked what would make someone respect you as a professional. Great viewpoint.</p> <p>I backed up up the images as usual, but I will just hold off on working with them any further until I hear from the client as his own convenience.</p> <p>Thank you!</p>

<p>I was shooting an event, an anniversary party. I had made arrangements with the host (the son of the couple) to be paid at the completion of the party, because the rate we had agreed upon was an hourly fee, and there were some different variables that would determine how long I would actually shoot for.</p> <p>After 3 hours, a little over halfway through the event, the husband of the celebrating couple suddenly became very ill. He was ultimately taken by ambulance to the hospital. The son understandably followed, and the message that the event was essentially a wrap trickled down to the videographer and I through a couple different people. </p> <p>So we both concluded our services for the evening and left.I left the message for the son to contact me whenever he had the chance, to please not worry about it but get to me whenever he could. I am unsure about what is proper in this situation - do I tell him not to worry about paying me? Or do I collect for the time I did shoot the party? What is appropriate?<br> I didn't have the chance to find out what the videographer was planning on doing. </p> <p>Any advice would be greatly appreciated.</p>