turning down business...

By the title of this post, you might think that my photography business took off over night and that I am now traveling all over the place for photo shoots and simply don't have time to take all of the requests for my services. I wish that were true, but I'm not quite there yet.

I got a request to meet a client at a nearby downtown area for a portrait shoot. We chatted on the phone and I requested that she email a picture to me so that I could just get a quick idea of style, personality, etc before the shoot. We set up a time and place to meet and all seemed well...until I got her picture. She appeared quite young in the picture and I recalled her saying she mostly wanted to have pictures of herself to send to friends and post on myspace. So I did a quick search on myspace and found out she is only 14!! Yikes!

I quickly wrote her back and let her know that if she was under 18, I needed a parent present for the shoot and to sign the contract! She called me back and said that she actually turned 18 today. How ironic...so I had to write her back and say thanks, but no thanks and I told her I would not do the shoot. That is not a road down which I am willing to travel!