lycosa13

I don't want to be one of those "speak to the manger!" people,

You're not one of those people if you're making a reasonable request for something you've paid for! You need to tell her so you can get your money back and find another photographer on such short notice. Most are already booked for Christmas. Btw mini sessions are different than full sessions, it's probably why she didn't try to fit you in to her mini schedule

Ooooo this is such a good idea!

You should communicate this to the tattoo shop just in case (if you didn't already). Just say something like "by the way, I did just want to let you know, I'm just starting out. If you're still ok with me coming by, but I will understand if you'd prefer I not." Or something like that.

"so who are you and why are you here?" and im just going to die of embarrassment

Why would you die of embarrassment? You're the photographer there to take a few pictures. You're gonna have to get comfortable being around strangers and making them feel like they're your best friend if you want to do portraits

Sure but most devices shoot in 2:3 so it's kind of ridiculous that you can't use the most common ratio on the most popular "photography" site

I hate 1:1 and Instagram doesn't support 3:4 in portrait mode, only 8:10 and I rarely shoot in 8:10. I'm not going to change the composition of my images to fit some standard Instagram decided on and have refused to fix. So borders on everything

Like what is this sentence??

You are not good people only care about the subject matter not the skills to do the job right and make things look good-great.

I literally don't even understand what that sentence is supposed to say

I love green in the shadows, slightly underexposed with some grain

noticed that you can only print the photos with the dates

Wait what? I've used point and shoots before and there was no issue with printing without the date.

Are you new to Instagram?

I tend to trust people for no reason.

What? Why? Stop doing that

Are they bad shadows or just darker areas? Either way, don't give out unedited photos. Offer to re-edit BUT only if it's a reasonable request. Of course there's going to be shadows, otherwise everything would be really flat. Btw since she just started, be aware that there are people that will complain and complain about pictures in the hope of getting a refund and basically a free shoot.