"...your deposit can be put toward a re-schedule as long as I am notified within 14 days of your session."
So, wait—I can call you that morning, tell you I want to reschedule, and that's okay because it's
within 14 days, but if I contact you 15 days before the shoot, it's not? What?
Judy really needs to think before she types. Then she needs to read what she's typed, and ask herself, "does this really convey what I intend it to?"
She claims she quit her last paying job (in early 2019, I believe) because her boss questioned the way she phrased something in a document, and she got all snotty about how he'd "insulted her intelligence." And yet I read shit like this and think, "He wasn't insulting enough."
She offers no explanation for why you can't have the raw, unedited files that you paid her to take—just a rude, curt "no" that she couldn't even be bothered to capitalize or put a period after. Yet, at the same time...
...you have to explain to her why you don't want to be included on her social media, and don't get any say in which pic she uses and how you're portrayed.
Also, even though she now states on her website that her packages start at $200:
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When you go to the goddawful PDF link, it still shows her original rates:
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Exactly the level of detail-oriented professionalism we've come to expect from Jude. But hey, why bother updating the .pdf? It's not like anyone but us Kiwis would ever bother to click on it.
Also, once again, it's obvious that Jude writes her own reviews:
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"...bring their photo studio to my apartment..."
LOL, she has no "photo studio." She has a camera, and probably a tripod. I see no evidence of a flash, or a portable lighting setup. And given how full of aches and pains she is, can you imagine her packing and hauling and setting up and knocking down and lugging home anything more than her camera? Give me a break.
"They are good at posing beginners..."
How would she even know? She's clearly not a beginner, and I doubt Jude was her very first photographer. And why is she telling others what Jude will do for "you," rather than describe her own, "I" personal experience?
So far, all of these reviews come across as far less personal than I would expect. And we've never seen these people in any of Jude's social media before, yet we're to believe she's photographed them multiple times. And their absence is not because either of them is shy, and feels awkward at being seen.
It's just so fake, and that Jude doesn't link to their social media only adds to that impression.
She also now has a blog on her website, though with only one post:
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Jesus christ Jude, if I'm looking for a photographer, I certainly don't want one who uses woke buzz words and has to constantly let you know they queer. People just want someone who can take good pictures, they don't give a shit about your life story.
I find it hilarious how she uses a lot of inspirational, self-help language to coddle potential clients into believing they're amazing, precious, undiscovered beauties—but then turns around and is a petty tyrant, telling them what they can and cannot have in exchange for her ridiculous fees, and having to beg to opt-out of being used for self-promotion (entirely on Jude's terms), rather than being asked if they'd like to opt in.
It's the exact same thing as her community, where she went on about being accepting and inclusive and safe for everybody because she was so compassionate—only to micromanage the shit out of it, ban people on a whim, and let her insane primary mod bully people with impunity.
tl;dr: If Jude doesn't want to be a photographer, she should just
not be a photographer, rather than expending all of this effort to present herself as a diva superstar creative visionary who dictates all the terms because she knows better than you.
