First up, let me say that I'm a professional portrait photographer. I have my own business where I get paid fairly well for what I do. I have had my business since '97 and am a professional. I have a storefront and that's where I would do any model session.
Next up, if you want me to photograph you, I do have rates. These rates start at $350/hr, sometimes more depending on exactly what you're needing and wanting. However, if I like your look, I might offer to do a TFCD session, but then I'll try to capture my vision, not yours, so it can fit in a part of my portfolio.
Usually if I find models on here that I want to work with, I will do a TFP/TFCD session in order to enhance my portfolio for the model photography portion of my business. Any models that I do TFP/TFCD will receive a CD with images (I'll remove any blinks & such) shot during the session, plus at least one retouched image (that I selected for retouching).
Let me also say that escorts (the guys or gals who come with the models when going to a photographer that they've never met) are always welcome during one of my sessions with the models.
Now Here's my tale (bio): I always wanted to do photography when I was in High School, but due to other commitments with either Football, Soccer, or Drama, I was unable to take photography classes. So, when I was in my first semester of college and in the common area of my coed dorm, when I saw one of my friends taking pictures at funky angles, I asked her what she was doing. She replied that she was taking pictures for her photography class. I asked her: "We have photography classes here at Southwest?" (At the time, my university was called: Southwest Texas State University but it is now called: Texas State University.) She replied: "Yeah, we have photography classes here." I asked "where are they?" She said: "In the technology department." I then said "where's that?" To which, she replied: "Over on the other side of campus on the hill." The next semester I took my first photography class and have been doing so ever since. Oh, I opened up my own portrait studio in 1997.
If you have any questions, please ask!
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