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What does it take to get models to show up?
Bodyartist wrote: I always try going to the location a few days before the shoot to make sure I know where it is, and that way I can let everyone know ahead of time if there's any problems. Mar 01 06 07:07 am Link Wow. Thanks for all the replies. Very helpful. I've been photographing for 27 years, but only within the last 7 have I been photographing models. Never touched a set of strobes before that. I'm glad that my frustration didn't sound like bashing, because its wasn't at all. I feel that there is a synergy between a model and a photographer, and I'm still learning, so I hate to charge just yet. There will come a time when I get more confident of my work that I'll be able to charge. Until then I guess I'm stuck with these "hit-or-miss" models. Its a shame because there are some models on here I'm dying to shoot with and they say are wanting to shoot with me...yet...nothing comes of it. For one, I have never cancelled a shoot, be it a model or any client. Had to re-schedule, but no cancels yet. I'm sure thats just luck. Its bound to happen. Thanks again for the replies. Guess I need to go buy some duct tape..ha ha ha. Mar 01 06 07:50 am Link just had my sixth cancellation in a row! That is my personal record. Mar 01 06 09:38 am Link Kilmer Photography wrote: Some models cant resist food or booze. Mar 01 06 09:40 am Link R. Olson (RO) wrote: Most models can't Mar 01 06 09:44 am Link Bodyartist wrote: Oh you misunderstand, the food is for the models. The booze is for the photographers. j/k Mar 01 06 09:48 am Link I would say check who you are wanting to work with. I have had great luck in doing an email session, into a a meet and greet, into a shoot. Make sure you can contact them and they can contact you. The more comfortable a model is the more likley she/ he will be willing to shoot with you. I had this problem a while back and then re-evaluated what I did in order to make sure that they were gonna show, now I go with communication, communication, communication. There has been a night and day difference in model who show up for TFCD shoots.The key is to find a model who not only has the looks but the right apporach and williness to participate in a project. If they get really excited about a shoot they will show. But paid shoots? Go through an agency... simple as that. Mar 01 06 09:55 am Link AllenA wrote: Here is the thing guys, You need to make sure that what you plan to shoot is what the model really wants to do. Also make sure you meet her before the shoot and get her cellphone number. I also always offer to pickup or drop them home. All my models till date have been TFP, I never pay to shoot someone, they pay me to shoot them most of the time. Mar 01 06 09:57 am Link Personally I bring candy, bottled water and tea to shoots but that's just me. Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker...so they say. I did have a model show up completely wasted to a shoot primarily because she had gotten hot by a onslaught of really heavy personal problems that day. She pretty much broke down and started crying a few minutes after she got to the set. She was determined to do the shoot anyway but I couldn't. We talked a bit which calmed her down, I paid her a cancel fee and sent her home with a friend. I'm new here, but after 60+ shoots, I'm very familiar with "S*** Happens". It pretty much depends on the model and a photographer's relationship with them and in this case I had worked with her before and knew this wasn't normal.... Mar 01 06 10:00 am Link Important BS seems to work Call yourself a Models Manager. Say your models sessions fees run $2,500 and up Make big promises that you know will never be kept Tell them what they want to hear Mar 01 06 10:01 am Link Kilmer Photography wrote: Show them the money. Mar 01 06 10:05 am Link Jay Dezelic wrote: The model I can afford...its the PLUMBER that I can't! Mar 01 06 10:08 am Link Funny. Since this thread was posted I have been contacted by three models that I had been messaging back and forth. I'm talking actual phone contact. What a concept. I have a shoot booked for tonight. Weird..its almost as if the models can read... LOL.. SK. Mar 03 06 08:12 am Link (Damn multiple posts...SORRY) Mar 03 06 08:29 am Link Jenna C wrote: Yes...it works both ways! I cannot tell you how many times I have been contacted by a photographer and when I reply I hear nothing back! We are not all like that, just like all photographers are not like that! I think you have just had a bad string of contacts. Mar 03 06 08:30 am Link Mar 03 06 08:30 am Link Dave Krueger wrote: Damn! You got my MO! Mar 03 06 08:33 am Link Dave Krueger wrote: And then I tell the judge, Dave Krueger said it was OK. Mar 03 06 09:03 am Link i just don't understand this. i see this topic come up in the forums often and i have to wonder, who are these "models" you guys are booking? i've never had a no-show on a shoot even when i was in school. there is no magic or special trick. you simply have to know who you're working with. if you're booking someone for a test (tfp), it's a mutual desire to shoot together. no reason you shouldn't be able to sort out the pretenders from the real models. a no-show on a paid shoot?? inexcusable. only time that ever happened to me was when the model became seriously ill the night before and ended up in the hopsital. the agency called us at 7am to let us know--and helped us book a replacement. you should know within two emails and one phone call if you are dealing with a flake. i don't book via email. ever. if models can't talk to me on the phone i have no need to book them. Mar 03 06 09:27 am Link Bruce Caines wrote: Sooo, I guess we'll be talking soon... Mar 03 06 09:32 am Link elisaveta â wrote: hehehe... most definitely. Mar 03 06 09:35 am Link Bruce Caines wrote: Sounds great! Looking forward to it Bruce Caines wrote: I guess they've been booking the wrong models...I've shot with SO many photographers. And never flaked. Only cancelled ONCE two weeks before the shoot AND I WAS GLAD I did! Mar 03 06 09:38 am Link Ron B Blake wrote: That does seem to work for a lot of guys around here. Maybe it's time to start building a harem. Mar 03 06 09:48 am Link Well, I am pretty new to this community and finding it a bit frustrating. I have had plenty of models contact me to do a tfcd/tfp. I approached one model and everything went so textbook smoothly. Since then it has been terribly difficult! I agreed to work with three of the models who contacted me to do tfcd/tfp. After responding that I would be willing and giving a general idea on the shots I woud like to do (no nudity all fashion oriented) I have heard nothing! Of the three models that I approached with very specific ideas (again no nudity, all glamour and fashion) I never heard from two of them. The third who had a very professional portfolio was kind enough to write back and decline for very understandable reasons. So do I go back to simply working with models who pay me (none from this site have sought me out and have been willing to pay). Just venting a bit. Could write a lot more but guess it is an ongoing circle of events here. Mar 03 06 09:59 am Link |
Neither can most photographers. 
