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UnseenWorld · 10-29-2002, 01:24 AM

Telling her she can buy the content back for what it's worth is treating her like an adult and it's a good compromise because people shouldn't be able to simply recant bad decisions, or they don't learn anything from them. I'd like to be able to return that Nehru jacket I bought back in 1968 because as soon as I bought it, I realized I'd made a bad decision.

Some models pose for fun (those are the best) and some pose out of necessity (I try to avoid those), because a lot of the latter, once they get the rent paid, would like to treat the photo session as a loan of some sort. I even had a model come back after a shoot to pick up some prints I promised her, and she asked at that point if she could have the negatives. I said, "Excuse me, let me understand this: You get paid for the shoot, you get the negatives. Remind me: What am I getting out of this transaction?" She left without the negatives.

I can't take back all my contractual decisions because I don't like how they turned out for me. If we lived in a world like that, contracts wouldnt' be worth the paper they're printed on. I say, just make sure you level with a model before she signs on. Answer all of her questions, and even give her some of the information she SHOULD have asked, but didn't. I get a lot of girls who say, "I don't think anyone will see these," and I invariably disagree with her and tell her she can count on people she knows seeing them sooner or later. This usually doesn't keep them from signing on.

Perhaps having posed nude will be embarrassing to some of the girls later on in life, but so can some of the stupid tattoos I see people the same age getting. We all have ghosts in our closet and things we regret having done. Quite frankly, I've worked with 160 girls and while some of the girls have stopped modeling for one reason or another, only the one girl I mentioned and another girl whose parents have flipped out over the thing, come to mind as girls who seem to have major regrets. Of course, I do fairly soft stuff compared to a lot of other photographers. Maybe that is why.

10-29-2002, 01:24 AM
UnseenWorld Confirmed User Join Date: May 2001 Location: Portland, OR, USA Posts: 5,279	Telling her she can buy the content back for what it's worth is treating her like an adult and it's a good compromise because people shouldn't be able to simply recant bad decisions, or they don't learn anything from them. I'd like to be able to return that Nehru jacket I bought back in 1968 because as soon as I bought it, I realized I'd made a bad decision. Some models pose for fun (those are the best) and some pose out of necessity (I try to avoid those), because a lot of the latter, once they get the rent paid, would like to treat the photo session as a loan of some sort. I even had a model come back after a shoot to pick up some prints I promised her, and she asked at that point if she could have the negatives. I said, "Excuse me, let me understand this: You get paid for the shoot, you get the negatives. Remind me: What am I getting out of this transaction?" She left without the negatives. I can't take back all my contractual decisions because I don't like how they turned out for me. If we lived in a world like that, contracts wouldnt' be worth the paper they're printed on. I say, just make sure you level with a model before she signs on. Answer all of her questions, and even give her some of the information she SHOULD have asked, but didn't. I get a lot of girls who say, "I don't think anyone will see these," and I invariably disagree with her and tell her she can count on people she knows seeing them sooner or later. This usually doesn't keep them from signing on. Perhaps having posed nude will be embarrassing to some of the girls later on in life, but so can some of the stupid tattoos I see people the same age getting. We all have ghosts in our closet and things we regret having done. Quite frankly, I've worked with 160 girls and while some of the girls have stopped modeling for one reason or another, only the one girl I mentioned and another girl whose parents have flipped out over the thing, come to mind as girls who seem to have major regrets. Of course, I do fairly soft stuff compared to a lot of other photographers. Maybe that is why. __________________ SIG TOO BIG! Maximum 120x60 button and no more than 3 text lines of DEFAULT SIZE and COLOR. Unless your sig is for a GFY top banner sponsor, then you may use a 624x80 instead of a 120x60.