Model No-Show frustration

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I hate it, this was the second time I got a no-show. This time is worse coz I actually confirmed with the model this afternoon and she said she planned to be here. We had also met up at a coffee shop last Thursday to talk about the shoot.

There might’ve been a good reason, but she used to have “Upcoming: TFCD shoot with Austin photographer Andrew Ng” on her OneTalentSource page, now it doesn’t say that, so I am fairly sure she really just blew me off. WTF…

There was a documentation meeting from 5 to 10pm at work and I had to take off at 7:30 for the shoot. Spent half an hour setting up the studio… I think I’m gonna stick with paid models or paid shoots from now on, if I do TFP I’d take a deposit. This is insane, and extremely frustrating. At least I didn’t rent any equipment or hired any markup artist. jesus…

oh yeah, her name is Elizabeth Austin Schoenfeld, in case any fellow Austin photographer wanna do a photoshoot with her. Proceed with caution.

While I’m at it, the first model that was a no-show was Jennifer Payne, OMP #167440.

N I V I » Working at a venture fund isn?t diversified enough for you?

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N I V I » Working at a venture fund isn?t diversified enough for you?

New blog by yet another VC, pretty cool stuff. I took have friends who urged me to “never work at a startup”, interestingly, I joined Newisys when they had 50 people and they joined more established public companies, guess who got laid off at the end. I kept telling them there is really not true job security, so we might as well find a startup with upside potential… unless you can find the next Microsoft or Dell… hehe…

Well, I guess SigmaTel, my current employer, isn’t exactly a startup anymore, but still it had only been public for a couple of months at the time I signed… We’ll see how the stocks behave in the next several years… HEHE… I do miss being in a smaller startup though, it was so much fun to know every single employees’ name…

photographing peacocks

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So like I said in my last post, I had a couple of hours to spare while waiting for Sherry this afternoon. I had my photo gears with me in the MINI, so I went to Mansfield’s Park again to photograph some peacocks. Last time I went most of the shots were either out of focus or got some camera shakes, sloppy photographer, didn’t pay much attention to the inverse rule with shutter speed and focal length… Plus the 70-200/2.8L at 200 with my camera is actually 320, so at least 1/320 to be safe…

This time I made sure the technical stuff were covered, here’s one of the pics: