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OMP and showcases
isn't this funny....first let me say that I have worked with the guys (and gals) down there in Fort Lauderdale and they are really nice. But whoever gives away many of those showcases needs to get some... I just came across a portfolio that has been online for 4 days...and it already has 4 showcases, all of them nude. There are many wonderful pictures in the portfolio, but the nudes got the showcase, LOL. Ah well... disclaimer: I know they give away showcases to non-nude pictures. blah blah blah  May 31 05 12:02 pm Link someday people will realize that there is no correlation between an OMP showcase and real world prestige, or better yet $$$. this reply would fall under the real world of modeling vs. the internet. five+ omp showcases and $.50 can buy me a phone call.  May 31 05 12:18 pm Link Nice "hot chick." May 31 05 12:22 pm Link Posted by johnny olsen: err, ummm....i guess it would. I was just poking a little fun at OMP. May 31 05 12:51 pm Link Posted by Angel Tara: But a poorly shot nude will often be showcased when a terrific non-nude image is passed up! Most people I know don't give much regard to the showcase process any more. May 31 05 12:51 pm Link Posted by johnny olsen: May 31 05 12:56 pm Link I have 3 non nude showcases there... I only thought I would mention how full of the "stuff" they seem to be over at that site. A friend of mine talked to "B" a couple weeks ago and showcases came up in conversation. "B" claimed that they no longer give them out for nude images...but I know this to be a false claim...seems like they will tell you whatever they want to shut you up or get you off certain subjects! Ok...time for me to get a cup of shut the heck up now! [_]D May 31 05 01:01 pm Link I don't pay OMP enough to get a showcase. Guess I'll just have to live without! May 31 05 01:05 pm Link When I registered at OMP I immediately got 2 showcases (out of 5 images). I've been on OMP for a year now and haven't got any more showcases. I honestly think it's because I don't subscribe to any higher level of membership. And why would I - I love Model Mayhem.  )May 31 05 01:15 pm Link The whole Showcase thingee is flawed and really ought to done away with. OMP has used the showcases for a number of reasons, like getting folks excited about the site, presumably to get them to upgrade their profile... to get people to be quiet when they complain... and certainly as rewards for a wide variety of things. They don't disclose the identity nor the qualifications of those who do the selecting, also it is very random and haphazard in what is selected(but nudes definately seem to have a priority)... and finally they do have favorites... I know of one fella (identity undisclosed), who paid for an OMP staff member's trip and loo and behold he received showcases by the dozen(many for very mediocre images). I decided to remove all of my showcases from my profile... I would prefer for folks to judge themselves regarding the quality of lack thereof in my images. I sincerely hope that MM doesn't come up with their verson of the "showcased image". May 31 05 01:47 pm Link Posted by Angel Tara: hmpf. None of my nudes got a showcase and I had the "Special K" himself on the phone complimenting me on Tara's pic when it was my main pic. Me sad May 31 05 01:53 pm Link Posted by Visual Edge: Yeah, but consider that most people you're referring to who don't give much regard to showcases are people in the Industry, i.e. other Photographers and Models. May 31 05 02:00 pm Link Posted by RStephenT: * Jaws dropped. Eyeballs enlarged * May 31 05 02:05 pm Link I haVE a modeling profile with many good images on it.. and whenever I post an image there is no showcase... and then the photographer post the same image after me.. lol he gets a showcase. I think omp really dosnt care for me.. for many reasons. whatever screw that effin site, I get most my paid work off of that site that is the only reason I stay... but Model mayhem is soo much more user friendly and more fun. May 31 05 02:09 pm Link Posted by Angel Tara: That's why I've always been the opinion that the deciding party for showcases should be a panel of members who are in no way shape, or form, affiliated/associated with the company giving away the award. A so-called panel could consist of the following: May 31 05 02:15 pm Link I have one showcase there which I got when I first created the profile... it's a headshot. Since then I have not had any showcases even though in the opinion of several models and photographers several variations of my images have been copied by the ones getting the showcase!!! I wish I knew what their cirteria is for the showcases... May 31 05 02:27 pm Link I honestly think the criteria is simply what they notice. I was speaking with a girlfriend of mine who was down there shooting for the bikini episode of shut up and model. She said she was talking to "C" and she mentioned to him how she had no showcases. The next day, she had about 10 (bikini shots). "They don't disclose the identity nor the qualifications of those who do the selecting" well, its not much of a secret because people talk. And remember, the entire OMP staff is about a dozen people. 2 dozen TOPS! Hee hee, I will say though that my picture (about 8 feet tall) is on their new van they bought to carry all their SUAM equipment around in. I thought it was kinda cool...but I'm easily amused. May 31 05 02:46 pm Link While everyone doesn't care about showcases it seems that everyone wants them because they are a form of validation for a mass audience. I would like more showcases because they do a great of driving traffic to my OMP homepage so more people get to see my work which is what I care about. May 31 05 02:52 pm Link Any objectivity about showcases is gone now because the 5 people on OMP who are able to tag something Showcase deal with endless walls of complaints and bitching and whining about showcases. Just think, if there are message board threads on virtually ever model site bitching about OMP showcases, can you image how what the OMP people must hear? May 31 05 03:53 pm Link I agree with Johnny O that in the real world a showcase image on OMP ain't going to buy you snot. Which is good, because I don't have images showcased over there and if I did I'd be inclined to cash them in and at least buy an iced coffee drink with them. I'm not opposed to the idea of showcasing per se....if the actual award of a showcase meant something. There are enough of us at this point who have actually seen the buddy system at play (we know who these photog are) who could put up the world's most ill-conceived and contrived work and get a showcase. We've seen the poorly crafted works featuring a buxom 21 yo mary lou, with the high satin (seam fully visible) backdrop, babies toys, dog tail, postman delivering the mail, in the margins of the shot, but mary's 44DD mounds of joy prominantly featured in the middle, and WE KNOW why the image got a showcase. I've personally seen someone bitch in a chatroom long enough and 2 showcases were magically awarded within 20 minutes. So, with this kind of system in place, it's amazing that good shots actually do get recognized. I kinda wish they'd get their act together and do something like Joe suggested, a committee of non-interested parties that actually had an art or photography backround reviewing work. But me thinks that the current system probably has enough perks in it for OMP staffers....especially since it allows/encourages even the lowest common denominator to keep plugged into the OMP cash cow. May 31 05 04:35 pm Link I had a showcase shot, I have since deleted it because I have posted better work. It's a waste to me, really. May 31 05 04:43 pm Link wow...well I knew showcases had alot to do with titties and ass, but since I don't spend anytime on their msg boards or in the chat room, i didn't know about the bitchin to get a showcase. hmmm...well I've got one showcase that I got months ago. Guess I didn't do any bitching when I was in FL. too easy going, lol learn something new everyday.... yea! May 31 05 05:11 pm Link I've always held the beleif that to get a showcase image on OMP, there are two requirements. 1. The image has to be by a photographer who pays for a gold or better subscription. 2. The model has to be a member paying for a gold or better subscription. When I first joined OMP, [and nobody had to pay] I was photographer of the week three times in a year...now that I'm just a bronze member...zippo. Not that I care, I can count the number of models I've reached through OMP on one hand so who needs it? I've already shot with three models from here in a month! May 31 05 05:26 pm Link Posted by Angel Tara: Funny you all mentioned that, because my showcase image was a bare ass shot. May 31 05 05:35 pm Link i OMP showcase thing cracks me up. i have been on there for 4 years now and i have just a handful of my 240+ images in the showcase. i think many of my images that aren't in the showcase are much stronger than the ones that are. i don't know who i judging that crap but they should pull their collective heads out of their collective asses. i see some other photographers that have many showcase images and most of them are crap. it's all political. good thing i don't care what others think of my work. [ b ] May 31 05 06:07 pm Link OMP is biased when it comes to showcases. Kiss thier ass and they will give you showcases. They also love nudity. There is only 1 admin who actually gives out showcases for creativity. That person was the one who gave me showcases. The rest of the admin don't like me very much and could care less about me. Kind of like how some of the photographers on here feel about me. lol I've deleted 3 showcases so far. 2 images have been chosen in the past for photo of the day. May 31 05 06:15 pm Link I have been a member there for 5 1/2 years and just a few months ago I got 2. I know my images don't suck that bad. On the other hand my images on Models who pay for the Platinum get more. My 2 cents May 31 05 08:35 pm Link Posted by johnny olsen: Yep! :-) May 31 05 08:44 pm Link Posted by © David Fish: Wow David your an old dude!! May 31 05 08:58 pm Link Just about everyone on the planet knows how I feel about OMP and how they allowed an amateur photographer from California named Jaime Escalante to talk BS about me in their chatrooms...which led to me telling Jaime where he could take a long walk on a short pier somewhere and then I asked to be taken off of OMP ASAP..........any site that allows a fool like that to get away with what he did and is probably still doing deserves exactly what they get... nothing but GRIEF IMHO! Israel May 31 05 09:05 pm Link I've been on OMP for much too long! Since 3/01 ... when it was free. I have NEVER gotten a Showcase there.  Someone on there TOLD me that they don't like me ... "Now pay us some more money!" I have even posted some nudes ... still no Showcase! I gave up on ever getting a showcase anyway. May 31 05 09:11 pm Link I have so been waiting for that thread. I have bitched for hours and hours about the unfairness of it all. Yet, I plan a campaign to contact them when I shoot with a few more 1,000,000+ hit photographers... May 31 05 09:15 pm Link I have so been waiting for that thread. I have bitched for hours and hours about the unfairness of it all. Yet, I plan a campaign to contact them when I shoot with a few more 1,000,000+ hit photographers... May 31 05 09:16 pm Link On OMP, do photographers get rewarded by submitting nude pics? A Showcase is like a prize, right ? May 31 05 09:25 pm Link Posted by johnny olsen: It is true that showcases aren't worth money... May 31 05 09:27 pm Link This guy, OMP 20145 has 9 Showcases!.. What do you all think of those selections for the "Showcase Gallery"? Good selections or poor selections? I say poor. JP May 31 05 09:31 pm Link Posted by John Paul: I looked John Paul. I agree with you; they are poor IMHO. May 31 05 09:46 pm Link Well not one showcase for me on OMP and I have the stupid Plat. level membership... But the models I have shot with have recieved them with my photos - so to me that even better.. May 31 05 09:47 pm Link the whole thing is silly. try going to an agency or gallery and have a jury judge your work. they do not have qualified people doling out these showcases. its just a cute thing they do that many people have latched on to. that said, i have no problem with omp either. plenty of work comes from there. yes. paid work. May 31 05 09:52 pm Link I renamed them ShowShits...Ive had several deleted them all.Have Models that have recieved them.I care less about them.If it makes the Models feel special great.Glad Ive contributed to helping them love what they do. When started seeing out of focus PS crap and out of focus Non PS images awarded thats when I deleted mine. Im just a guy with a camera.A passion to create images and touch peoples lives.If I have succedded at that.THAT is all that really mattered in the first place May 31 05 10:16 pm Link |
