I recently worked with a model and because I had not worked with her before I suggested picking her up. The train times were not very agreeable and the drive was, on paper, straightforward. The other good thing about this was that we had time to chat in the car and that served as a further ice breaker.
My drive was fine until the last 5 miles, and due to an accident all my timings were off. It was all fine in the end and we got to shoot and have a good day. However, that problem with traffic upset my creative mojo. This sin turn meant that the pictures I shot were not, in my opinion, up to usual standard. This was a paid shoot, so I did not have a commitment to the model as a customer, but to my mind that is no reason to not shoot your best.
I made some different choices on lighting for some shots during the day, and I am not sure why I did that. The lighting is probably why I am annoyed with myself, and I am not sure why I did check myself as I would normally. The end results were not bad or a disaster, but I see some little errors that I would normally not have had made.
I felt slightly stressed through the day, and this was entirely down to that traffic messing up my plans. That is what I mean by consistency and stability. I can blame myself, but no one is to blame, it was just one of those things. What was important was that I got to build a solid foundation with the model for future work. That outweighs any negatives.
It did serve as a reminder that I need to factor out these wrinkles in my planning as much as possible as they can have a detrimental effect.
