Hiring friends to share the cost is usually pointless IMHO. You just have to use your spidey-sense and make judgement calls based on portfolio, word of mouth, and pre-shoot communication as to whether or not the model would be a good fit. For glamour especially, the professional models don't care if you just bought your camera that day. If she (or he) shows up and is lollygagging around and half-assing it, then send them home as soon as it's clear you're wasting your time. And then refuse to pay her, or prorate the payment for the time she actually was there. If the model shows up and wants to leave early, then let her leave. You just have to stand your ground and stick to your guns if you're paying. Lover of beauty, both in nature and humans.Īssuming you're new and building your portfolio, then money is the easy answer. In this way I try to protect them from improper public/private reactions. I also allow them to choose a nickname, and I will never link to their profiles on FB. I still have them 'filter' my images after the shoot, although I work with a contract, they still get to see the images before publishing. Most volunteering models i work with like my style, and are willing to cooperate because of this. Young people are getting more and more prude, or prudish, in my opinion, so indeed it is hard to find young women willing to pose nude, and to have their images published on the net. (in Europe we have Facebook groups reuniting models, photographers, make up artists. On the other hand the payed models are available 'for money', so not too hard to find them. Payed models are mostly taking their jobs very seriously, I only once had a model that was 'in a hurry', not my best cooperation, indeed. I work with both payed models as volunteering models (both get digital images in limited resolution). To be totally honest, I thought that it would be easier in California. As we started this discussion as a private conversation, gacon1 and me, I'll respond first:
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