IF YOU HAVE RED HAIR... PLEASE READ THIS FIRST
If I sent you a friend request, tagged you, or if you just stumbled upon this page and have red hair.. I'm probably wanting you to check out the Infrared project on this profile. Please let me know your interest level if any. It is not paid, but I can guarantee that it will be different
Now the rest:
Photographing since 1978, I have relationships with several local and international stylists with the ability to produce whatever you can imagine. This profile is a separate account from my commercial account that showcases my glamour, artistic, and edgy fashion work, up to Playboy style (although I RARELY do full nudes). Implied is great though... sexy but still something that you can show Mom. Always looking for fashion height models within 100 miles. Also looking for pinup and glamour models for various projects. If you're interested in working with us, please add as a friend. Please also drop by to say hello once in a while. Those that are not actively interested in working together and do not communicate from time to time will be deleted. This ain't myspace, and I'm not looking to collect 36,872 "friends".... pathetic...... Open to some TFP for now. Watch for pricing when the website is complete in about a month.
Please be professional, courteous, and on time. If we start talking about working together, we must trade phone numbers.. I get REALLY tired of playing hide and seek and "e-mail ping-pong". If you're too scared to make real contact, please get out of this business. Agents/managers are also viable contact numbers as long as they can set your schedule and make you stick to it. If I contact you, rest assured that I am not looking to charge you, and also rest assured that I am NOT offering any compensation unless I specifically say so. I am a part of this site to network with like minded individuals that want to create some spectacular work. The goal is to create work that will lead to paying commercial jobs, but not to milk each other. In other words, I am here to collaborate, not to find a model for hire. I have agencies all over the SE US from whom I can get models on a test basis (free),,, I am not looking to pay an amateur from an internet site........ Ever.
****OK UPDATE**** I'm going to amend my comment about never paying models. I just got a curt reply from someone who read the profile and seems to have been offended. Let me clarify. I do not want to sound as if I'm Mr. Wonderful and every model on here is a hack. I am not opposed to paying for a model for a personal project. I understand and value everyone's time. Certainly in a perfect world, we all have trust funds, don't need to work, and we are all here to collaborate and make art for the sake of making art. That would be great,,, but isn't reality. I am also pretty used to having models anxious to test for free, but I also understand that my hunting for red-heads for my infrared project has forced me out of my little box where I'm used to being king of the hill... SO.... please know that I'm not opposed to paying a fee for the right person in the right circumstance. Having said that, it is pretty rare. Please also know that castings for commercial jobs and obtaining models for client's shoots will still be done primarily through my existing relationships with Model/Talent Agencies..... So if you are looking for work, feel free to forward your info if you are well established and have been a pro for a while... I can keep you in a database. Also know, that you will be competing against full time professional models via their agencies.... Please understand my hesitance to recommend models from a networking site whom I have never met or worked with. Once we have worked together, of course, you are in poll position, especially if I owe you a favor for a test shoot. I hope this mitigates some of my previous section where I was sounding a bit like a turd...
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Also, here is some personal info and and opportunity to point out that there are some differences when working with me and/or my cohorts:
I PREFER for you to bring an escort (they come in handy carrying stuff)... please contrast this to the GWC that seems annoyed that you don't show up alone in a dark street dead end while over an hour from home. I am a full time professional with no other job
I am married, I have 4 kids (no wise-cracks please), and small fluffy dog...
I have NO interest in dating, screwing, or getting you nekid for jollies. When nudity is involved, you will note that I go to great lengths to maintain what element of privacy possible and I make a habit of NOT looking at the model other than through the camera or when having to direct posing.. I leave the room or turn my back when changing clothes or positions... and do not stand there like some frightening molester freak...gawking at the free "nudie show"...
I get offended when people don't reply to inquiries... yes I know that the internet is choc-full-O loosers, and I'm sure that you're a fucking rock star (who happens to wait tables or is a bartender) and that you get 100's if not 1,000's of notes daily via the internet looking for TF-this and that, or naked artistic such&such... and that you just can't reply for 3 months.... Know this: For a real pro to reach out and not get the professionalism and common courtesy of a reply... is a no-no... If you're really that inundated with inquires...It's time for a manager, or time to list with an agency that can get you a $2,000-5,000 day rate and get you the hell off the internet.... And while you're at it... get some friggin manners...
There... that's my rant... I feel better. I hope you do too!
Our name is "Shoot-Hard" because that's how we roll (if you knew me,,, you would know how funny and ridiculous it is that I use the phrase "that's how we roll"). No borderline, comp card, cookie cutter crap done here. I have no interest or time for producing run of the mill looking work. If you're looking for something different than the 6-12 generic shots on your profile from the same 1 or 2 MWC's... float us your concept.
Hope to meet lots of new and committed professionals here.
Also looking to network with hair, makeup, and fashion stylists. Although I know many from these industries... you can never know enough stylists ; )
-Shoot-hard.
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UPDATE:
Currently searching for natural red heads for in infrared project. The theme is implied to nude, b&w infrared imagery, and putting the hair color back into the image. This is a fledgling project, but I think that it has the potential to grow into something off the hook. Attractive redheads with good figures and a desire to do something TOTALLY different, should give me a shout. Escorts encouraged (as always), totally professional, 5,000 square foot commercial studio (not my garage or apartment bedroom - Ewww!), I'm a full time professional photographer, etc., etc., A recent test image is on this profile under the album "infrared"
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