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Photographer

Joe Tomasone

Posts: 12599

Spring Hill, Florida, US

OK, we've had threads on here for a long time about how to become a creepy photographer and what constitutes one.  I think that in fairness, we must examine this from both sides.   What makes a creepy model, and how does one become that way?   


I'll start off:


Call the photographer every day leading up to a shoot and ask him how well done he likes his boiled rabbit....

Dec 02 05 05:28 pm Link

Model

StacyJack

Posts: 2297

New Orleans, Louisiana, US

never shave your armpits.

Dec 02 05 05:32 pm Link

Photographer

Chapa

Posts: 314

Austin, Texas, US

show up to a shoot wearing long sleeves...in the middle of summer...just to hide the needle tracks...

Dec 02 05 05:33 pm Link

Photographer

MarkMarek

Posts: 2211

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Go to announcements where it clearly says no links and post a link along with PLEASE VOTE FOR ME

Dec 02 05 05:33 pm Link

Makeup Artist

Marcia Dionne

Posts: 282

Frisco, Texas, US

Go to a shoot where you knowwwwwww there is gonna be a MUA and have chin hairs.  What is wrong with people...if you make sure your legs, underarms, and bikini area are hair free, why not check the face.  I just don't get it...and then I have to be the one to bring it up. 

"Umm, excuse me, you have a 5 inch hair on your chin...mind if I pluck it???"

Dec 02 05 05:38 pm Link

Photographer

James Jackson Fashion

Posts: 11132

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

flirt with the photographer and assistant and makeup artist and stylist and art director.  Make plenty of dirty jokes as well.  Grab your crotch and make an up/down motion with your hand.  Then when someone makes a sexual innuendo comment towards you give them a dirty look and act like you're being put upon.

Dec 02 05 05:38 pm Link

Model

Adrienne Aurora

Posts: 2745

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Marcia Dionne wrote:
Go to a shoot where you knowwwwwww there is gonna be a MUA and have chin hairs.  What is wrong with people...if you make sure your legs, underarms, and bikini area are hair free, why not check the face.  I just don't get it...and then I have to be the one to bring it up. 

"Umm, excuse me, you have a 5 inch hair on your chin...mind if I pluck it???"

LOL, omg. Have you seriously done that?

Dec 02 05 05:39 pm Link

Photographer

Chapa

Posts: 314

Austin, Texas, US

beat your escort(who also happens to be your boyfriend) over his dome with a nine inch heel, a studded belt and an empty bottle of jack, because he's drunk and you DON'T want him hanging around the shoot...

Dec 02 05 05:39 pm Link

Model

Dana Nicole

Posts: 130

NEPTUNE, New Jersey, US

do the same "look"...a la derek zoolander...in everything.

and make it ridiculous.

Dec 02 05 05:40 pm Link

Model

Adrienne Aurora

Posts: 2745

Atlanta, Georgia, US

exibit stalkerific behavior.

Dec 02 05 05:40 pm Link

Photographer

MarkMarek

Posts: 2211

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Holy crap, Adrienne, you reminded me of a major creepy factor but I decided I was going to behave for the rest of the day tongue

Dec 02 05 05:42 pm Link

Photographer

James Jackson Fashion

Posts: 11132

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

here's another real world one:

Eat only baby spinach. ONLY BABY SPINACH and water.  When offered anything else, act like you're considering it...ask questions about it, and then pull out your personal bowl of baby spinach...with your personal knife, fork, and spoon that you brought. OH...and if someone touches your personal utensils...wash them...twice...with soap and water.

Dec 02 05 05:43 pm Link

Photographer

Chapa

Posts: 314

Austin, Texas, US

show up drunk, with an escort(who also happens to be your best girlfriend and was uninvited), get in not one, not two, but THREE arguments with her over the course of the shoot and then pass out while gettin' it on with her...

oh, and then try and collect a fee for the BOTH of you...

AND copies of the shoot...

Dec 02 05 05:43 pm Link

Model

Adrienne Aurora

Posts: 2745

Atlanta, Georgia, US

MarkMarek wrote:
I decided I was going to behave for the rest of the day tongue

Ya right. Try not to pull another thread hijack move~

Dec 02 05 05:45 pm Link

Photographer

Chapa

Posts: 314

Austin, Texas, US

ant bites all over the legs are nice...hives are even better...

especially for upskirt and nude shoots...

Dec 02 05 05:45 pm Link

Photographer

James Jackson Fashion

Posts: 11132

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

Get naked...dry hump everyone in the room...except one guy...give that one guy dirty looks every time while you dry hump someone else.

Dec 02 05 05:48 pm Link

Photographer

Chapa

Posts: 314

Austin, Texas, US

steal a car from a drug dealer, so you don't miss the shoot...

Dec 02 05 05:48 pm Link

Photographer

Chapa

Posts: 314

Austin, Texas, US

raveneyes wrote:
Get naked...dry hump everyone in the room...except one guy...give that one guy dirty looks every time while you dry hump someone else.

were YOU that "one guy"?

if so, i'd be pissed too...

Dec 02 05 05:49 pm Link

Photographer

James Jackson Fashion

Posts: 11132

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

no, but I was pissed on behalf of that one guy

Dec 02 05 05:52 pm Link

Photographer

Christopher Hartman

Posts: 54196

Buena Park, California, US

I'm always that one guy sad

Dec 02 05 05:55 pm Link

Photographer

Chapa

Posts: 314

Austin, Texas, US

raveneyes wrote:
no, but I was pissed on behalf of that one guy

that's mighty nice of you...;-)

Dec 02 05 05:56 pm Link

Photographer

- null -

Posts: 4576

Claim that you look like this.....

https://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/Graphics/Canada/Evangelista.jpg

when you actually look like this.....

https://hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/HollywoodCowboys/heavies/ERNESTBORGNINE.jpg

Dec 02 05 06:06 pm Link

Photographer

Chapa

Posts: 314

Austin, Texas, US

Eric Muss-Barnes wrote:
Claim that you look like this.....

https://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/Graphics/Canada/Evangelista.jpg

when you actually look like this.....

https://hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/HollywoodCowboys/heavies/ERNESTBORGNINE.jpg

you just made my day...thanks...smile

Dec 02 05 06:10 pm Link

Model

Memi Haute

Posts: 7241

raveneyes wrote:
Get naked...dry hump everyone in the room...except one guy...give that one guy dirty looks every time while you dry hump someone else.

I actually know a girl who does this. And she just got out of a mental ward. They probably should have kept her. lol

Dec 02 05 07:49 pm Link

Photographer

Patrick Walberg

Posts: 45207

San Juan Bautista, California, US

Right after the photo shoot, let your crazy side show!  Grab the photographer by the arm and say, "Can you print all those photos up right now for me?"   Then tell the photographer you MUST have a CD or copies of ALL the images RIGHT NOW!!

Shove the photographer into a car and insist on driving him to where ever he needs to go to be able to produce the images for you.  Insist that you have to have these right now and that you have nothing better to do than watch him make these pictures for you.  Drive 20 miles over the speed limit so that the photographer can't jump out of the car!  Insist " ... that is how we drive in Germany!"  You scare the shit out of the photographer by nearly getting into an accident on the freeway at 100 mph!  At that point, he will agree to anything just so he doesn't die in a car wreak with you! 

Then after the photographer explains that once he gives these images to you, that he never wants to see you again ... call him up the next week like nothing happened and ask him if he'd like to shoot with you again!  If he has a brain in his head, he wont ever get in a car with you again!

It happened to me ... once! yikes

Oh one more thing .. lie about your age!  This was a German model I met in a nightclub ... she was using a false ID!  I don't do the "club" scene for finding models anymore!  LOL

But if there are any wildly beautiful German models who love to drive fast and MUST have it all right now ... call me!  I could always use some excitement in my life!  (Just kidding!)  ROFLMAO!

I've been so lucky that this is the only crazy experience I've had. She was quite attractive and a good model too.

Dec 02 05 08:55 pm Link

Photographer

Tim Baker-fotoPerfecta

Posts: 9877

Portland, Oregon, US

Frequently during the shoot, walk up to the camera and wrap both hands around the lens on the camera, lick it .... and in a soft purring voice, ask, "Don't you have a bigger lens ... I like BIG lenses."  Keep stroking the lens and lick the glass ... the stop, turn around, and say "I'm tired, I need a break ... what do you have to drink? .... I'm going to puke if I don't get something to drink ... then puke anyway, but make sure it's on the photographer's new backdrop he just bought (or on the nice fur rug he has for a prop ... at least something expensive."

Dec 02 05 09:03 pm Link

Model

PlusModelNikki

Posts: 1196

Pontiac, Michigan, US

Patrick Walberg wrote:
Right after the photo shoot, let your crazy side show!  Grab the photographer by the arm and say, "Can you print all those photos up right now for me?"   Then tell the photographer you MUST have a CD or copies of ALL the images RIGHT NOW!!

Shove the photographer into a car and insist on driving him to where ever he needs to go to be able to produce the images for you.  Insist that you have to have these right now and that you have nothing better to do than watch him make these pictures for you.  Drive 20 miles over the speed limit so that the photographer can't jump out of the car!  Insist " ... that is how we drive in Germany!"  You scare the shit out of the photographer by nearly getting into an accident on the freeway at 100 mph!  At that point, he will agree to anything just so he doesn't die in a car wreak with you! 

Then after the photographer explains that once he gives these images to you, that he never wants to see you again ... call him up the next week like nothing happened and ask him if he'd like to shoot with you again!  If he has a brain in his head, he wont ever get in a car with you again!

It happened to me ... once! yikes

Oh one more thing .. lie about your age!  This was a German model I met in a nightclub ... she was using a false ID!  I don't do the "club" scene for finding models anymore!  LOL

But if there are any wildly beautiful German models who love to drive fast and MUST have it all right now ... call me!  I could always use some excitement in my life!  (Just kidding!)  ROFLMAO!

I've been so lucky that this is the only crazy experience I've had. She was quite attractive and a good model too.

haha! holy smokes! :-o

Dec 02 05 09:11 pm Link

Photographer

photosbydmp

Posts: 3808

Shepparton-Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

come to the shoot, fresh from snorting coke, and we ain"t talking the one with bubbles.

Dec 02 05 09:14 pm Link

Model

Model Sarah

Posts: 40987

Columbus, Ohio, US

Stalk a fellow model for 2 1/2 years only to get a restraining order.

Claim a photographer raped you for attention.

Dec 02 05 09:21 pm Link

Photographer

Patrick Walberg

Posts: 45207

San Juan Bautista, California, US

Nikki S. wrote:

haha! holy smokes! :-o

I actually love to drive fast (legally!) and have worked at sports car racetracks as a part of a crew.  There are some women who are great drivers!  I'd have no problem riding wih Danica Patrick for example!  But not someone who "thinks" she is qualified for the Indy 500!  LOL

Dec 02 05 09:26 pm Link

Photographer

photosbydmp

Posts: 3808

Shepparton-Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

Eric Muss-Barnes wrote:
Claim that you look like this.....

https://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/Graphics/Canada/Evangelista.jpg

when you actually look like this.....

https://hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/HollywoodCowboys/heavies/ERNESTBORGNINE.jpg

sounds like one of my old playboy shoots, ever thrown up while shooting? damn i came close on that one, the goodyear blimp had less stretch marks,and was more attractive as well..

Dec 02 05 09:27 pm Link

Photographer

photosbydmp

Posts: 3808

Shepparton-Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

chapa wrote:
steal a car from a drug dealer, so you don't miss the shoot...

so you've  shot in vegas as well?

Dec 02 05 09:29 pm Link

Photographer

Sienna Hambleton

Posts: 10352

Toledo, Ohio, US

Doug Mackay    DMP wrote:
come to the shoot, fresh from snorting coke, and we ain"t talking the one with bubbles.

Umm. We talkin' about a certain dark haired model in Vegas who was tweakin' so bad in that hotel room I was afraid for not only her safety but ours too?

Dec 02 05 09:35 pm Link

Photographer

photosbydmp

Posts: 3808

Shepparton-Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

Visions Of Excess Studi wrote:
Umm. We talkin' about a certain dark haired model in Vegas who was tweakin' so bad in that hotel room I was afraid for not only her safety but ours too?

worse this was here in oz, but damn i remember that one as well, i swear , i am travelling with a priest next time.

Dec 02 05 09:37 pm Link

Photographer

Duncan

Posts: 2135

New York, New York, US

Hey I have had a model Nod off during the shoot, The type of nodding off you see heroin addicts do, I then escorted her to her Chauffer driven Mercedes with Blacked out windows after 1 roll - She paid in Crisp $100.00 dollar bills , So I didn't care!

Dec 02 05 10:19 pm Link

Photographer

James Jackson Fashion

Posts: 11132

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

Patrick Walberg wrote:
Right after the photo shoot, let your crazy side show!...

Ohhhh...I forgot about her.  This girl definitely frightened me...

Model contacts me out of the blue (saw my website somewhere, but no personal reference) to ask me to shoot for her in New York.  I look at her portfolio and it's mostly close ups but she has a cute face...man why couldn't I have remembered what I learned from dating right then...

Anyway...I show up at the appointed meeting spot...and I don't recognize her.

Her hair is in this awful mass on top of her head, and she is a little upset trying to explain that she put too much product in trying a new look...blah blah blah...

I calm her (one of us had to remain calm) and ask her if she's brought a brush.  She has, so I have her go and fix up her hair as best she can (which isn't much).

We shoot some images...not my best work as I'm still distracted by her hair mass (now looking for all the world like a refugee from a legos set).  We shoot for an hour or two around Lincoln center, and get some neat stuff with the spring flowers and reflection pond.  After we're finished she DEMANDS to see the photos right then and there...in the center... I'd brought my laptop, but typically I edit first.

Ok, no big deal...show her the photos...she's happy with them...I'm ready to go, and she tells me I can't leave until I copy all the images from my computer to hers. yikes
"No that's not the way I work" I explain
"You must...I want images now" she replies her accent thickening
"I have to edit them first...color correct them...push the lighting"
"No...Images on computer now" she demands, shoving her cf card reader in my chest

Well I gave them to her...it wasn't worth risking a physical assault in the middle of the park.

She happily paid me $40 for my train fare, and left.

She still hasn't used any of the images because they weren't ready...they needed to be pushed, because I always shoot under exposed and push in photoshop.  She's still around looking for more images for her portfolio, but hopefully she's pissed off enough people that she's actually run out of photographers in New York.

Dec 02 05 11:27 pm Link

Photographer

James S

Posts: 1103

Spokane Valley, Washington, US

Hide in a closet, and claim that "they" are after you. And that you're a clone.

Dec 02 05 11:32 pm Link

Photographer

Doug Lester

Posts: 10591

Atlanta, Georgia, US

During a break in a photos session, sit down nude in the photographer's lap and quote your "overnight rates". Yeah, that happened.

Dec 02 05 11:32 pm Link

Photographer

Phil Kimpton

Posts: 1844

Taunton, Massachusetts, US

adrienne of Zswana wrote:

LOL, omg. Have you seriously done that?

While I was away with my friend during the Thanksgiving weekend with her and her family.. her mom pointed out this big hair on her chin... My friend was so mortified.. honestly I never noticed it. Not that I have a reason to look that close anyways.

Dec 02 05 11:36 pm Link

Model

The_N_Word

Posts: 5067

New York, New York, US

Smell.

Dec 02 05 11:38 pm Link