Advice about photography situation

One of my close friends is a very talented photographer. When I first got pregnant we talked about her doing our announcement, maternity and newborn photos. In April she did our announcement photos and I paid her regular rate minus a slight discount, and I assumed I’d do the same for the remaining shoots.

Last week my doula tagged me in a FB post with an aspiring photographer offering 10-15 images for pregnant couples in exchange for helping build her portfolio. I reached out for the opportunity because (1) free photos and (2) the maternity photos with my friend were just going to be of me and I thought it would be nice to have some photos with my husband in them.

On Tuesday my friend told me she’d like to gift me my maternity and newborn photos. I was blown away and so happy! I was not even thinking about the other session. We went out on Thursday and took photos. She sent me a couple sneak peeks and they were AMAZING.

The next day we had our free session with the other photographer. She was really sweet and told us she’d be giving more than the 10-15 images initially promised. Immediately after our session I felt guilty and like I should’ve told my friend about this free session. So I reach out to her via text and say “hey just wanting to let you know our doula put us in contact with another photographer for couples maternity photos and I said yes...hope that is okay with you”. Her reply was asking if I agreed to it just today or prior to our shoot. I asked to call her to explain and she said let’s talk tomorrow (it was around 9pm when she responded).

I guess I am looking for advice on how to handle the situation with her. I don’t want to look like I don’t value her time/effort/skills. My honest intentions with doing this other shoot were honestly just to get a few photos of my husband and I together.

Any advice? Please no responses with “well you should’ve done XYZ”...if I could do it differently I would’ve talked to her before the free session and negate this whole situation, but I just didn’t think it would be an issue until after.