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No I don't want to keep your streak alive
I especially envy your access to all those gorgeous models.
Quote from: WarrenPrice on January 17, 2010, 16:38I especially envy your access to all those gorgeous models. Getting models is the easy part. A quick search on modelmayhem.com will give you tons of wannabe models who will work for free in your area. It's a great resource and it's free to use.On a side note, I never pay models for stock work. Actually I make them pay me. They can pay for their session starting out at $500 depending on what they want and I don't make them sign a MR. Option two, they only pay $75 but they are required to sign a MR. A lot of photogs do TFCDs for stock which is ok if it's a model you know from previous experience will make you tons and tons of sales. First time around though make them pay ... preferably in advance because a lot of wannabe models don't take it that serious and will flake out, not show up, be an hour late, etc.On contracted stock jobs then yeah I pay the model .. actually I add the model fees on the clients bill but the point is they get paid. For micro though there is really no reason to have to pay for models.
You do contracted stock jobs (Getty I presume) no wonder all these models pay you $500 upwards, I'd imagine they're kicking your door down, please share some examples if you will.I'm really impressed that you manage to do contract stock jobs, shoot high end commission work for clients and yet still have enough time to shoot family portraits and spend hours as a reviewer for a microstock site, I couldn't find any info or examples on your website or your blog but I'd be interested to hear more, especially your reasons for reviewing because it's obviously not the money.I run a studio and must admit I barely have enough hours to keep up with the stock work I do, I couldn't afford (time or money wise) to shoot family portraits or model portfolios let alone review on a microstock site, how do you do it.
Quote from: RT on January 17, 2010, 19:11You do contracted stock jobs (Getty I presume) no wonder all these models pay you $500 upwards, I'd imagine they're kicking your door down, please share some examples if you will.I'm really impressed that you manage to do contract stock jobs, shoot high end commission work for clients and yet still have enough time to shoot family portraits and spend hours as a reviewer for a microstock site, I couldn't find any info or examples on your website or your blog but I'd be interested to hear more, especially your reasons for reviewing because it's obviously not the money.I run a studio and must admit I barely have enough hours to keep up with the stock work I do, I couldn't afford (time or money wise) to shoot family portraits or model portfolios let alone review on a microstock site, how do you do it.No not Getty. I've gotten some contract jobs through micro but it has always been directly through the client. Yeah I stopped doing family portraits (burnout) same with weddings simply because I can't stand doing them. I just specialize in seniors ... and charge more that way I can work less taken only the clients who really have money and still make the same as people who shoot tons of lower-income seniors. It's all about productivity .. I'm always using that word. For example I rely on Photoshop for productivity, meaning I can preform darkroom procedures in a fraction of the time digitally .. rather than using Photoshop to fix things that could have been done in real life while shooting. When you get everything possible in camera then you don't have to waste time later .. you're already pretty much done. I try to spend only 1 minute per image during post. 90% of the time it's more or less moving the files to the computer and converting the RAW to a JPG real quick. If I do feel the need to pop a color or anything it's always something that can be done in a few seconds .. if it takes longer than that I just don't bother doing it. Also in the cases where I do something like that I only do it after the client has made their purchase. This way I'm not doing little touch-ups to photos they won't buy anyway. Combine that with a similar studio workflow .. knowing the exact spot, angle, etc., where a light is going to sit before your client even walks into place, knowing the pose ahead of time ... all the saved minutes add up and before long you are getting better results in 30 mins than what would take other people a couple hours to get.Maintaining productivity and being fast, efficient and accurate every time without thinking about doing it will allow you more time than you ever thought you had. It's the best thing you can invest your time into mastering.
Umm no that's not what a contracted stock job is, a contracted stock job is when a stock site contracts a photographer to do a shoot for a fixed fee (the photographer pays all the model,location and other costs) and then the site takes copyright of the images and sells them themselves, Getty do it.As for the rest, well I won't comment anymore, you should post this stuff on the SS forum they'd love it.
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