NavelTickler75 said:
I do know there is a difference between hard laughter cry and upset cry, and have no problem with hard laughter cry, so long as the girls get a break for a few seconds to minutes.
Obviously the models get breaks between scenes or when they really need them.
No I knew what you meant, and understand. Of course he has a right to change his mind, but he should definately have given it a far greater deal more thought.
Indeed. If he was to change his mind, he should have done so before the shoot. If he only figured it out in the middle of the shoot, it strongly suggests that he really wasn't all that comfortable with it to begin with, and he should have been clear about it with her right from the start. By calling when he did, he risked ruining the shoot (he certainly ruined the mood), and he made Vickie rather upset. I didn't hear much of the conversation, which took place in another room (as it was none of my business), but it sounded like he was giving her a hard time, which I think is totally unfair. I may be totally wrong, but my impression was that he was a bit of a controlling jerk. I was quite pissed at him not only for interrupting the shoot, but also because he made Vickie feel bad. She didn't feel at all guilty about doing the shoot, however. Good for her!
I'm willing to bet she felt bad about the ideal with her boyfriend and didn't want to go through that again, and there was a possible fear that her parents would find out too, so I can understand that from her POV. Though I can see why you'd be annoyed too.
I don't think it's quite the case. I got in contact with her in the first place because she was a member of a "model-meets-photographer" club I'm also a member of. When I couldn't reach her anymore, I learned that she had done pretty much the same to some of the photographers she was supposed to work with. So I don't think her disappearance has anything to do with my shoot, though its not entirely impossible that she realized she was having problems with her boyfriend and decided to change something in her life, like break up with him and move away without telling people, including her own family, where she was going. Or maybe not, I don't know. Now, I can understand that something probably happened that made doing more shoot impossible for her, for whatever reason. But I would have appreciated if she had at least called me to let me know. I would have been disappointed, for sure, but at least I wouldn't have felt let down quite as much. I don't know, it just seems to me that it's common courtesy.
As for her parents, I doubt she was worried about what they would think. If I remember correctly, she mentioned it to her mom because she wanted to use her parents' house for the shoot. When I got her parents on the phone, I discussed the situation with them (the loss of contact, not what the boyfriend did), and it was obvious that they knew what it was about. Heck, her younger brother even came for a quick errand during one of our breaks, something that we knew was going to happen. Besides which, she's done some artistic nude photography, so I don't think the tickling thing was very intimidating for anyone.
Please note that while I am disappointed with the way things happened, I'm not angry with Vickie. And during the half shoot that we did, she was an excellent model. The boyfriend's rude behavior and Vickie's disappearance don't take anything away from the material that we produced, and I'm quite pleased with it.