Timeless Photos wrote:
I have really heard enough bashing of other modeling sites. Both OneModelPlace and ModelMayhem are great sites. They both offer something completely different. There are a lot of models, photographers and MUAs that have benefited from excellent expose from both these sites.

Please people; support these people and their efforts. They are the best representation we in the industry could ask for. If you think you can provide a better service, by all means step-up-to-the-plate!

Wise words .. and I agree.

There are numerous Photographer/model/artist sites on the internet. Each performes a function.

I often think the bashing says more about the basher than it does about the bashee.

_Negatives wrote:
What I love best about MM is that photographers can get FREE accounts.

Joe Kozlowski wrote:
I often think the bashing says more about the basher than it does about the bashee.

I have noticed a lot of monkeying when it comes to bashing OMP. You know, like back in junior high when you wanted to fit in you picked on the kids the popular people picked on. I see a lot of the people who bash OMP ,,,,,,,ON OMP with PAID memberships,lol.

Timeless Photos wrote:
Both OneModelPlace and ModelMayhem are great sites. They both offer something completely different. There are a lot of models, photographers and MUAs that have benefited from excellent expose from both these sites.

OMP: pay the $10 and sign up as a photographer, get stone-cold silence, pop-up ads, and an endless stream emails about new models 500 miles away (I live in Texas). Sign up as a model and get flooded with 1000 emails the next day offering everything from TFCD to footrubs to marriage.

MM: sign up, nada. Send mail, get 1 response back out of 10 sent. Make an Annoucement and it flies off the home page faster than Rush Limbaugh making a late-night run to the pharmacy. But the forums are a great community and I've actually found a few people around here who might be willing to shoot, at least when I travel outside of Armpit, Texas.

MySpace: sign up, find hundreds of listed "models," but they're all just ANTM fans who are creeped out if you mail them asking their portfolio needs and availability. But I've gotten more work (including paid) on my calendar through MySpace than through MM and OMP combined.

Glamour Boulevard wrote:

You get free accounts on OMP, too. Unless you want to upgrade beyond bronze I do not think 10 bucks as an application fee is unfair at all considering the space used and all.

Sounds like a kit fee.

Richard Tallent wrote:

OMP: pay the $10 and sign up as a photographer, get stone-cold silence, pop-up ads, and an endless stream emails about new models 500 miles away (I live in Texas). Sign up as a model and get flooded with 1000 emails the next day offering everything from TFCD to footrubs to marriage.

There is a feature on OMP which sends a contact email to a new model as soon as she signs up from each paid membership photographer in her state. This can be good and bad. Most often it overwhelms the new model because she can not handle all the emails.
  I helped a few models on OMP with emails , theyd ask me advice on who was legit and such. Many models get as many as 5-10k hits on their portfolios in their first 24 hours on the site.

Richard Tallent wrote:

OMP: pay the $10 and sign up as a photographer, get stone-cold silence, pop-up ads, and an endless stream emails about new models 500 miles away (I live in Texas). Sign up as a model and get flooded with 1000 emails the next day offering everything from TFCD to footrubs to marriage.

MM: sign up, nada. Send mail, get 1 response back out of 10 sent. Make an Annoucement and it flies off the home page faster than Rush Limbaugh making a late-night run to the pharmacy. But the forums are a great community and I've actually found a few people around here who might be willing to shoot, at least when I travel outside of Armpit, Texas.

MySpace: sign up, find hundreds of listed "models," but they're all just ANTM fans who are creeped out if you mail them asking their portfolio needs and availability. But I've gotten more work (including paid) on my calendar through MySpace than through MM and OMP combined.

There’s a lot of truth in those words, I empathize.

Whether it’s MM or OMP, the bottom line for a photographer is whether the site is a good source of talent.  Some I'm sure, have had great results, I'm not one of them.  Both sites been very poor sources, though I do enjoy the MM forums.

KaoS GRaFFiX wrote:
I never got one shoot from OMP! So I cancled my account last night and I'm just going to pay for 100 pic slots here.

I've heard other models say that about OMP, but I've also heard models say they only get shoots from OMP!  Seriously!

Vivus Denuo wrote:

I've heard other models say that about OMP, but I've also heard models say they only get shoots from OMP!  Seriously!

My shoots from OMP outnumber my shoots from MM by about 30:1!

I have worked with some beautiful women here on MM. It is a great site as well.

Timeless Photos wrote:
I have really heard enough bashing of other modeling sites. Both OneModelPlace and ModelMayhem are great sites. They both offer something completely different. There are a lot of models, photographers and MUAs that have benefited from excellent expose from both these sites.

Please people; support these people and their efforts. They are the best representation we in the industry could ask for. If you think you can provide a better service, by all means step-up-to-the-plate!

Most everyone else agreed.  How typical, but I have to throw my 2 cents worth in and disagree.  how totally out of character.  lol 

Actually, I agree with most everything, except that I think the sites are actually very similar, and offer pretty much the same things.  Forums, chat, e-mail systems, networking, portfolios, models, photographers, artists, TFP's, flakes, GWC's, etc. etc.  Now that MM has paid memberships to get enhanced features, that gap closes even further.

OMP doesn't have Mr. GWC though, so it's behind the ball.      GWC rules. 

I keep hearing that OMP/MM does this but MM/OMP doesn't,  etc. etc.  and quite frankly the comments typically show the immaturity of the author more than anything else.  (OMP/MM and MM/OMP means names interchangable)

So I'll have to agree.  Use either or both sites for the perceived value and let's talk photography and modeling as opposed to trash.

Andy

Timeless Photos wrote:
Please people; support these people and their efforts. They are the best representation we in the industry could ask for...

If the industry you speak of is cottage industry of picture-post sites then you're right.  If you mean the industry of modeling then you really don't know the modeling industry.

MM is very clear in their mission statement that this is nothing more than a place to hang some photos and do some networking.  OMP has a mission based on their economic welfare without much consideration to its membership.

If proof is needed, just use the search function of each.  Neither are even close to what the industry requires.

That doesn't take away the fun aspect of hanging around based on what is offered, but they both should be taken at face value.