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Photographer

RAW-R IMAGE

Posts: 3379

Los Angeles, California, US

Paramour Productions wrote:

Sorry, I don't see it...

No problem--the photo failed for you.

Dec 02 06 01:54 pm Link

Model

Sarah Ellis

Posts: 1285

Portland, Oregon, US

Paramour Productions wrote:

LMAO!  Can I shoot you, please?

Sure, but only if I can cover my nipples with my hands and stick my butt in the air.

Dec 02 06 01:55 pm Link

Photographer

Mr Degenerate

Posts: 26

Charlotte, Iowa, US

I had to check your spelling of "pompus".

Dec 02 06 01:56 pm Link

Photographer

RAW-R IMAGE

Posts: 3379

Los Angeles, California, US

Paramour Productions wrote:

Oh,  yeah, ok...

Good luck to you with that...

Thank you and I'm getting winded leafing through my thesaurus trying to talk to impress all the others. Watch the attack on my consistent typo!

Dec 02 06 01:58 pm Link

Photographer

RAW-R IMAGE

Posts: 3379

Los Angeles, California, US

Sarah Ellis wrote:

Sure, but only if I can cover my nipples with my hands and stick my butt in the air.

Please do not blame the model for this.

As for you--I like a lot of your photos!

Dec 02 06 02:00 pm Link

Photographer

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Posts: 3379

Los Angeles, California, US

Johnny Degenerate wrote:
I had to check your spelling of "pompus".

Haw-haw-haw-haw-haw--I knew it was wrong when I typoed (is that a word).

U shod c som of my tx mssagz on my clphone!

Dec 02 06 02:03 pm Link

Photographer

Giacomo Cirrincioni

Posts: 22234

Stamford, Connecticut, US

Sarah Ellis wrote:

Sure, but only if I can cover my nipples with my hands and stick my butt in the air.

LOL!  Ok, but only once and at the end of the shoot.  Deal?

Dec 02 06 02:03 pm Link

Photographer

Mr Degenerate

Posts: 26

Charlotte, Iowa, US

Who's attacking typos?  I only knew because it was next to pompadour in the dictionary.  Which is after pomade, which is used in a pompadour, go figure.

Dec 02 06 02:03 pm Link

Photographer

RAW-R IMAGE

Posts: 3379

Los Angeles, California, US

Johnny Degenerate wrote:
Who's attacking typos?  I only knew because it was next to pompadour in the dictionary.  Which is after pomade, which is used in a pompadour, go figure.

I think my origninal post has been degenerated!

Dec 02 06 02:06 pm Link

Photographer

Marcus J. Ranum

Posts: 3247

MORRISDALE, Pennsylvania, US

Gaylord Hill wrote:
It is my presumption that MM is a networking site for all things related to photography

Wrong. It's "model"mayhem not "photography"mayhem. For sites that are all things related to photography try photosig or photo.net. Given the "model"mayhem is a site devoted to modelling, and does not allow porn, that kind of limits the site to product photography, lifestyle, glamour, art nude, make-up and model related issues. Consider that most internet photographers and models are doing glamour-related photography (or nude/art nude) then you've got no reason to be surprised, unless you're just trolling.

mjr.

Dec 02 06 02:06 pm Link

Photographer

Brian Diaz

Posts: 65617

Danbury, Connecticut, US

James Jackson wrote:
That's funny...

In the time I've spent shooting and working on catalog shoots... that's just not been the case...

Like to know where you get your stats from there XA... cute info though... not accurate... but cute...

Catalog does not encompass the entirety of commercial modeling.

Here's what XA's talking about:

http://newmodels.com/race.html

(See the tables in the link which break down percentages of commercial modeling jobs by age and race.  They don't copy and paste easily.)

What conclusions can we get from these tables?  Here are a few:

   1. Only 11.3% of all commercial print jobs are for young girls in the 17-23 year old category. The highest percentage of these is Caucasian, but that still means that 95% of all commercial print work is NOT for "pretty young white girls".  Obviously it's very different in fashion, glamour, art, fitness and some other specialties. But these are numbers that people ought to be aware of when deciding that "I'm too short to be a fashion model so I'll be commercial".
   2. "Prime time" is the late 20s and 30s for women, 30s and 40s for men, and in fact the average age asked for is 37 (35 for women, 39 for men).

(Emphasis not mine.)

Dec 02 06 02:08 pm Link

Photographer

RAW-R IMAGE

Posts: 3379

Los Angeles, California, US

Marcus J. Ranum wrote:

Wrong. It's "model"mayhem not "photography"mayhem. For sites that are all things related to photography try photosig or photo.net. Given the "model"mayhem is a site devoted to modelling, and does not allow porn, that kind of limits the site to product photography, lifestyle, glamour, art nude, make-up and model related issues. Consider that most internet photographers and models are doing glamour-related photography (or nude/art nude) then you've got no reason to be surprised, unless you're just trolling.

mjr.

I went looking for a intent statement before I even started this question. The "Model" Mayhem went right by me, d-u-u-hhh. Anyone ready for GlamourMayhem?

Dec 02 06 02:10 pm Link

Photographer

Brian Diaz

Posts: 65617

Danbury, Connecticut, US

Gaylord Hill wrote:
I went looking for a intent statement before I even started this question. The "Model" Mayhem went right by me, d-u-u-hhh. Anyone ready for GlamourMayhem?

http://www.glamour1.com/

Is that what used to be GarageGlamour.com?  I didn't really look at it much, but I've heard a lot of people talk about it.

EDIT: Yes, it is.  http://www.glamour1.com/forums/view.php?pg=about_us

Dec 02 06 02:18 pm Link

Photographer

Kentsoul

Posts: 9739

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

Gaylord Hill wrote:
It is my presumption that MM is a networking site for all things related to photography, modeling, makeup, styling etc. Why is it that almost ALL of the photography here is a type of glamour or a subset of glamour. Just curious how a site like this gets hi-jacked to be so cloistered!

Oh!  I get it now!

Dec 02 06 04:08 pm Link