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Model Mayhem #:
449023
Last Activity:
Jan 16, 2022
Experience:
Very Experienced
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Time for Print
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Jul 03, 2007
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About Me

http://www.edfreeman.com


IF YOU WANT TO LEAVE A COMMENT OR MAKE A FRIEND REQUEST, PLEASE READ THIS:

I am happy to add almost anybody to my list of friends, unless your work is really tasteless or incompetent. But I don't make friend requests myself, and I almost never leave comments or return tags. I also do all my own retouching. Just so you know.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN WORKING WITH ME, PLEASE READ THIS:

I have enormous respect for my models and all the hard work they do to stay looking their best. And I am eternally grateful for the contribution they make to my art. So I want you to be very clear about my business arrangements with models; if you work with me, I want you to come away from the experience feeling that you got exactly what was promised in return for your time and talent.

1. I don't pay my models.  The only way we're going to work together is if we both want to, and no money changes hands.

2. You can't pay me to take pictures of you. Or rather, you can, but I'm so expensive, it's not worth discussing.

I don't give models copies of every picture I take. We review all the pictures on the computer during and after the shoot, but you do not get to keep them in their raw form. To me that would be like going to a restaurant and getting a meal of all the ingredients dumped on a plate - uncooked. What you do get is a digital copy of every picture I finish in Photoshop at a size sufficient to display online  - finished pictures usually look a lot different and a lot better than the original exposures.

3. I spend a lot of time retouching and compositing pictures - anywhere from two to ten hours for each one. For that reason, I don't finish a lot of pictures from any given shoot - only the best ones. That might be just one or two; four at the very most. That means you might not get every picture you want - although I usually try to work it out so that everybody's happy.

4. I'm slow. You're not going to get all your pictures the next day, or even the next week. It may take weeks, or more, to see any results. You're going to have to be patient. I do deliver, however - eventually.

5. I require all models to sign a model release. On VERY rare occasions, I might license a picture to Getty Images, in which case I give you an honorarium of 100 dollars. Other than that, you don't make any money being photographed by me. Almost all my pictures get published sooner or later, but I do not pay for publications - your picture might end up in a book ten years from now, and I'm not going to hunt you down after all that time. Besides, the money I make from publishing nudes is usually zero or close to it, so you're not getting ripped off. I also don't pay royalties for fine art print sales. If you knew all the time and work - and money - that goes into actually selling a print, and how few I sell, you'd understand why.

6. I shoot all my models nude; however, I'll agree not to publish any full frontal pictures if you are concerned about it (I'll give you a legally binding, signed statement to that effect). But in general, if you are not completely comfortable being naked in front of a camera, you shouldn't be doing nudes with me or anybody else.

7. I have no problem with escorts, as long as they behave themselves and stay out of the way. Sometimes I enlist them as unpaid assistants. BTW, I'm probably as old as your grandfather, I'm in a relationship, and I'm not going to try to grope you. I just want to take your picture.

8. I do have a problem with tan lines and body hair, except for pubic hair and maybe a little forearm and trimmed armpit hair on men. Also, I'm not interested in photographing other peoples' artwork, so if you have tattoos that can't easily be retouched out, sorry, but I can't work with you.

Those are my guidelines. If you can live with them, great. If not, we're not right for each other. There are lots of other really good photographers on this site (and lots of good models).

This all sounds very demanding, I know. And I am very demanding. I'm very picky about whom I photograph, and I ask a lot from my models - and myself - when we're shooting. I may ask you to tie yourself into a square knot, but my sessions are still easy-going and fun - we can play music, have a glass of wine, eat some organic snacks, hang out and tell war stories. I'm a nice guy, my models tend to be enthusiastic about the results, and I often end up shooting the same people over and over again.

These days I'm doing a lot more experimental work - it's on my website under "Abstract Faces" and "Abstract Nudes." If those doesn't completely weird you out, we'll probably get along just fine. No more underwater shoots planned at this time.

Thank you all for being out there; I couldn't do what I do without you.

Ed

P.S. Thank you for all the offers of help, but I do all my own retouching. I never work with outside retouchers.

P.P.S. I notice that a lot of people include their favorite quotes and/or aphorisms on their profile, which is not exactly relevant to what we're doing here, but it's sort of cool anyway. And I wouldn't want to be left out, so here's my all-time favorite two sentences of wisdom:

"Everything will work out all right in the end. If it's not all right now, it's not the end yet."

Amen.

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I have a book of male nudes ("Work," published by Bruno Gmunder in Germany, available on Amazon) and working on a second book. I shot the front cover of Playboy Magazine for their summer issue in 2019; they also ran a four-page profile on my underwater photography.  Numerous spreads in Black + White and Blue Magazines, including four covers; I've put out a multitude of cards, posters, calendars - everything from jigsaw puzzles to coffee mugs. My fine art nudes have been on many magazine covers and are included in dozens of books, magazines, gallery shows and private collections worldwide. Pretty much everything I do gets published sooner or later. I have a touring museum show of landscape images. I get a lot of awards and prizes. I'm represented by Getty Images. I don't shoot porno and I don't publish in pornographic or skin magazines. I'm just as concerned about my reputation as you are concerned about yours.