Comments on: My First (and last?) Customers

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:31:28 +0000

This is the dad of the cute kids pictured above. Heidi, you did a great job. Please continue to do it. You have a repeat customer from us-if you’ll take us.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:20:54 +0000

Good job on the pictures!!! They turned out so cute. I love the ones outside and the girls are so cute. Their smiles are real smiles- love it. Keep it up if you can (if it’s not too stressful, which I think it would be for me!).

By: Melissa and Dorian Ducker

Melissa and Dorian Ducker — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:57:53 +0000

That is such a FUNNY story!
And it’s funny that I’v always thought how absolutely wonderful your pictures are and always wondered if you’d take some of my family if I asked! :o)
Now I know that it scares the CRAP out of you. Let me know if you ever want to make some extra cash! We need a big family picture so bad.
And, I might just bug you again anyway…because I can!! You take the greatest pictures. Don’t be so hard on yourself!

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:53:41 +0000

Great job! So how do you get cute, spunky, two-year-olds to smile like normal children? Mine wants only to stick her tongue out. Hopefully that phase will pass quickly. But really, looks like you got some rvery nice shots.

By: apple

apple — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:29:38 +0000

You really did a great job. Those pictures are great!!!

By: tearese

tearese — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:52:39 +0000

I was reading along, and wondering if you were ever going to show us the pictures…I’m glad you did! I like the baby, and the ones by the shed the best. You sounded just like I feel when people want me to draw things for them. I want to, but I don’t, and I have no idea what to charge! I’m glad your first venture was successful…
oh, I have two blogs I look at because the ladies who do them have excellent photos. If you’re interested, they are:
http://shortonwords.blogspot.com/
and
http://peaceandpandemonium.blogspot.com/
the second lady does a lot of portraits for other people, and they’re really fun to look at!

By: Shawna

Shawna — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:17:55 +0000

I think your picutres are beautiful. You did an amazing job with these pictures. If I lived closer, I would love for you to take picutres of Mr. D and Mr. H.

By: Wandering Nana-Linda

Wandering Nana-Linda — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:08:35 +0000

You are too hard on yourself. You really did a wonderful job. The difference between you and the others is that you have caught the child and their personality, not just a picture of the child. You have caught the “tell me a story” picture. You really do have a talent.

By: JS

JS — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:49:49 +0000

Well, if you really don’t want to do photography for other people and feel bad for saying no, you could always set your price to high, then maybe they will decide differently. But on the other hand, if it is something you like you enjoy doing you could charge a small fee to cover your costs of the film, or disk, or prints ,or whatever, and use that as good practice time! And remember that yes, kids are hard to take pictures of, but dogs are much harder! And I think Sears may give a cd of photos.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:41:20 +0000

Heidi,
I can understand how that could be really stressful. But for your credit, those pictures turned out great.
A lot better than the last pictures I got done at a studio. I felt like that photographer didn’t know what she was doing either. I think you aught to keep it up, if you feel like you can handle the stress.
I think for you photography is a gift, and a talent. And you know what they say happens if you fail to use your talents. :)