The importance of being passionate AND NICE!!!

The other day a young girl came to ANNA asking for help with some model comp cards. It seems she was picked out of a crowd of thousands of models and given an opportunity to meet with some select talent scouts n that Saturday. She was in a rush. She brought a CD from some photographer who charged her a mint to take a few shots and gave her the images straight from his card. She could no understand how there was these spots all over the images. I explained to her they where dust spots and the guy should have at least corrected for this either by manually doing so or using a simple program like Nikon capture NX to remove them before letting them leave the studio. But I guess that is how some people do things. She was a littl stressed as to what to do next. She had found us through a google search and did not know what she needed to do, but that she needed to do something for this unique opportunity.

Anna and I felt bad for her and knew she might be overlooked if she would have walked into the room with that mess. So we had nothing better to do that evening and decided to make her into the project of the week. We told her to "go home and get some outfits." She came back a few hours later and we shot a full portfolio. We then laid out the images on in a book and ordered it from MPIX . These books are pretty descent quality and price and have a pretty fast turnaround. We ordered them on a Tuesday night and had it by Thursday morning. We also laid out and printed about 50 comp cards and gave them to her. All of this and we charged her less than what this photographer did. Of course we told her to tell her friends and NEVER tell them how much we charged her. Of course, to us this project wasn't about the money, but more on the philosophy of being a giving person and it may come back to you. 

GIVE / GET !!!