Hi GFY
I was recently recorded for a TEDx talk - 2 Billion reasons why you should use WhatsApp for networking
The photographer that shot it asked my if I could help scout talent, so I thought I'd ask here
Requirements:
Age: 18 - 25 (can be a little older but must look under 25);
UK dress size 4 up to 8 or a well toned 10, exceptionally a very well-toned 12;
Levels: open leg UK mag essential, fingers (continental level) an advantage but not essential.
Pubic hair: smoothies preferred (waxed not shaved); natural blondes can get away with thorough shaving.
Bust: natural (a couple of sites for which we are scouting will take enhanced very occasionally)
Hair: natural styles, no nutcase styles, weird undercuts or freaky colours
Piercings: single ear piercings and navel. No nipples, lips, nasal, subdermals. Might look at a single clitoral hood piercing with a high quality gemstone.
Tattoos: generally no, except the odd very discreet one.
Skills: acting, dance (ballet, contemporary and similar), gymnastics an advantage but not essential.
Attitude: "can do, will do".
Location ideally within his travelling range or visiting his area with somewhere to shoot where they stay (not a studio, must be residential with space). Travel range to the west and north west bounded by Bournemouth (and a bit further west close to the A31), Andover, Oxford, High Wycombe, south side of the M40, South London outside the South Circular Road, plus all of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. He will consider south west Essex.
In the first instance he only requires a set of doc shots and good head shots.
Metart criteria doc shots
'If they have these to hand then we can go ahead straight away. They should ideally be professionally shot. If they haven't and they are working near to me then I can shoot them at my studio along with any other content they'd like for your portfolios / Only Fans etc with my compliments. The most distant location from me to which I will be travelling for a commercial shoot in the foreseeable future is Ripley in Surrey (near Guildford) and the Mid Hants (Watercress) Line. Those doc shot images will be checked first by my colleague over on the continent, he'll get approval to go to stage two from Metart and Femjoy, and then we'll get the full test shoot done.
My style of shoots
The test shoot brief
I have teamed up with an EU mainland based professional photographer because of a combination of Brexit and COVID. He is a member of the authorised list of photographers for three of the world's top erotic-artistic nude websites. Those sites are Metart, Watch-4-Beauty and Femjoy. He also shoots regularly for four other sites, slightly softer in content.
Getting into those websites is tough, both for photographers and for models and there is a very demanding selection procedure. I know of several models who have failed because they weren't prepared to go along with those sites' selection systems, even though they had the ability. I have worked with models who have appeared on all three, (although not for those sites), and the thing that really struck me about those models when working them was that in over 1,000 images they never repeated a single pose. Amongst those models are Nella Miartusova and Tina Kay. But those sites hold a perfect hand of aces, because they are so good. I could shoot and submit photo sets to them, but my chances of getting sets published are much lower than my EU based colleague. That's not a problem for me. While he shoots pretty well nothing but that style, my main work is in commercial advertising, sport, insurance forensic photography, catalogue fashion and portfolios work for models, dancers and actors. I shoot fine art nude and erotica, but it's not my mainstay.
For him, it's much easier. All he has to do is get the approval of the site to shoot the models he seeks to work with and he then does the shoots. With COVID, at the moment, he can't travel here as it would seriously affect his productivity (because of quarantine), and remunerating non-EU nationals for work in the EU can only work one way in this industry because of Brexit. Fortunately that is the very method all of those sites use ... and for that very reason, as they also include models from countries outside the EU worldwide.
My job is the search and test shoot - the idea is to produce a Metart style set in one hour, including six minutes of video. Effectively we shoot the stills, about 240 images in 40 minutes - every one different in pose, angle of shot and lens focal length. I shoot (as does he) on a long focal length lens, 70 - 200 mm, where possible so I am distanced from the model, but also use 17 - 75 mm as my mainstay indoors and an 80mm f1.8 for venomously good bokeh.
We can shoot more than that, if the model wishes. That's her decision especially if she wants content for Only Fans, Adultwork or similar on a collaboration equal rights usage basis. I will not supply unedited images and never supply RAW images If the images work out well, and the model is accepted then it's off to his location for an extended stay, minimum five working days, sometimes longer, minimum five full sets a day with an 80 - 90% probability of publication. Also that opens the model up to other such Metart photographers and to the likes of Petter Hegre's site, the world's number one solo photographer website in that style. This guy discovered Japanese model Hiromi and first introduced her to the world on Metart.'