Dec
30

Calendar!!

My calendar is nuts. I think that I have written this before. I reach for the white out or the new color to help categorize my life and then once again it changes I have to admit that it has not always been like that. I have had a schedule where it is pretty much a routine in the works. I just now recently have found that things are very fluid around my bookings and the calendar.

January is less than a month away. I am making assignment bookings for the months of January and February 2018. I might even stretch it into March. I am not sure yet. This is for model mentoring, image marketing, company branding, photo shoots, promotional events, and networking. To get on my calendar, please send me an email as I really despise making any commitments into messenger or text. There is way too much going back and forth with that, so let’s keep it simple, shall we?

Dec
28

When to care and when to walk

Models tend to have the most interesting relationships with their own families. They either are much supported with the craft that they have chosen or they have been labeled the black sheep of the family. It seems that no one understand this business. It is a business regardless of what genre of modeling that you go into. Even the adult business is still a business.

After listening to many models in my day, hearing that they would get into the industry, get their fifteen minutes of fame and not know what to do with it. I had to decide that I did not care. Not about the relationship anyways. I base my other company on the fact of caring for the safety of models and to make sure that they are staying par for the course. The personal aspects of the modeling complexity, I had to just not get into it or worry about it. It was for them to figure out.

I hope that models take the safety issue seriously. It is one of the bigger topics win the safety groups that keep popping up around the internet. Who is safe and who really just did not click. We all can have a bad assignment. We all can have those instances where we would rather be ironing than being at the shoot that seems to never end. Regardless of the shoes, you have to know when it is time to really care and when it is time to walk. Take another path and make it your own.

Dec
21

The holiday flirt and Wish List

Models flirt. Photographers flirt. It happens. Now where is goes from there, it can cross the line or it cannot. It just depends on how each situation happens and transpires. I call it like the Coyote Ugly effect. You seem available but, then you are not available. The thing is that most people ask about personal information and it is not always the best thing to be telling them everything about you.

This is like when you are not supposed to post all of those pics when you are away and tagging all of your family. I see all of the personal information that is posted. I probably know more about some people than I really should. Some of it is very cute, but the drama of it all, I wish I would just be able to delete.

The holidays are notorious for the flirt. No matter who says it, it is the time that we love to get gifts. No matter who you are, I can’t see what anyone would turn down a present. Just no reason to. And let’s be honest. If someone sends you something, are you really going to send it back?

I love the Amazon and other Wish Lists. I have to admit after being in the business for over 25 years, I have had my share of bad gifts. I hated to say that I liked them but, they were just not my style, size, or even something that I would remotely want. Hence then came the Wish List. Then I knew that I could ask for the things that I knew that I would not be able to afford. The word WISH yes, that was real. I tended to get the simple gifts at first and then I would get the ones that I really was not expecting. I have to thank those who have made that journey fun. And I wonder what I might be sent this year as I did not put up a list this year or the year past. A box with a bow? Hum.

Dec
19

When trust has been given too early

I have heard more and more about shoots where a model who wants to try something goes ahead and shoots it with a photographer whom she has no rapport with and that they really have nothing invested but, time with the model. Then the images get leaked to whomever. They get put on the portfolio sites or even leaked to coworkers. I am not sure why there’s not a contract with these images like you would have with any of the other ones. People are giving trust to anyone and everyone.

I have had those shoots when you walk away and wonder. Where are the images going and did I cover all of the details of the completed shoot. Everyone thinks that they have been prepared for it and never the less, sometimes you are not ready to foresee what happens afterwards. I recall one instance where I was blindsided on where some of the images went to. He said that they would help with my career. I laughed as that was not the path that I was looking to go.

People are taking their word and relying on it heavily. It is called a lie for a reason. I am not sure why we believe everything that we hear. When we give in and give that trust, then we have given something to that me seems sort of sacred. Like references, there is no one who is going to give you someone who would give them a bad reference. Ask the questions. Get to know who you are working with. It might be a one-time deal or might culminate into something that is long term. Again do the homework.

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