You have some nice examples and a good eye, just consider that when you’re shooting a car, you want it to be the centerpiece. Nothing should be in the way or steer a viewer’s eye to something else. For instance the photo of the car coming out of the garage with lettering on the left, it’s distracting, crop the photo to make the car the focus. The lamborghini framed by leaves, right idea but it’s zoomed in too much. The leaves are blocking the driver’s door. Take out some books to understand the law of thirds.

That’s for you to decide and suggest, you’re the one with the idea einstein ;D. I don’t know what the reference is to them smiling when it sounds like you’re taking photos of their tattoos. What if someone has a full back/arm sleeve, etc?

Just be upfront, flexible, but also have some idea of what you’re planning to do. “Ok, I’d like to take photos of each of you in x position, perspective, and here’s how much time I’d like to spend”. You don’t want to overcommit to anything and I’ll find the right balance with the staff. Believe me, anytime someone gets a chance to get free photos, they may be asking if you can do this again - totally up to you, also good way to get traction on a small side hustle.

All subjective unless you show us your shots. Eye is in the beholder, I take plenty of landscape photos on my iPhone 14 and gaze at them later endlessly. It’s all about framing, some people have an eye for it, some don’t. It’s considered an art form for a reason.

Really depends on how he wants to approach it, in being a victim myself to a vehicular impact, it wasn’t until 3-4 months later that I had the interest let alone the energy to get back into hobbies I once enjoyed (and I did not undergo any surgery) but had bodily trauma. What is your friend’s energy level? Sometimes people like to leave things as they remembered it instead of getting flustered (I know if I couldn’t hold a 10lb lens and couldn’t get the focal shot I wanted, I’d get more aggravated than having fun).

I think this applies to anything used. I once posted a free working vacuum on a forum and got asked if it worked for both carpet and tile. I responded that I’ve only tried it on carpet. They got offended that I didn’t know if it worked on tile. I reminded them it was FREE. Regardless to say, they didn’t pick it up.

It’s a good practice to reformat cards for this vary reason. Doesn’t hurt anything and moreso of a sanity check.