Axana wrote:
Someone wanted to shoot only my feet. No thanks

LOL...I'd do that in a heartbeat.

ETA:  But I did have a photographer pitch the idea of him being ready to cheat on his wife with me.  At a shoot.  Like...during it.

Jac Knight wrote:
photog asked me to do an erotic shoot with him where he'd be the male model and his hard dick would be near my mouth type of thing he also offered 100 for this nude shoot so i could like suck on it to get it hard i was quite offended, and cammed the shit out of it

Hey, he probably figured if Terry Richardson can do it why can't I.

Charlene AM wrote:
A photographer said he wanted to do a shoot where I was a sushi human platter, but if I wouldn't do the shoot with him to at least send me photos of the idea because "art is meant to be shared."

there is actually an amazing artist on here who does human sushi platters, I'd have to look up his account though.
Anyways I'd love to do that, when done right it's a truly elegant feat.
But I also have huge respect for sushi art not on nude ladies too.

Carmilla Jo wrote:
Worst idea I've gotten (very graphic):

Portraying Snow White lying on the ground with her violated vagina exposed, with seven mini used and dirty condoms lying around her.

Shit. I so want to do that shoot.

Does that make me some sort of weird GWC?

Alixx Rose wrote:

there is actually an amazing artist on here who does human sushi platters, I'd have to look up his account though.
Anyways I'd love to do that, when done right it's a truly elegant feat.
But I also have huge respect for sushi art not on nude ladies too.

I would TOTALLY be down for Human Sushi Platters.  I have always thought that was a cool idea, since I first heard about it.  Plus, girls that do it for events get paid ridiculously well, man.

Kitty Devereux wrote:
I once got asked to shoot TF nudes in the middle of Cambridge over xmas time.

Safe to say I didn't jump at the offer!

Sounds pretty cool, if they're good enough.  And it's the right time of day.

Augustine York wrote:
Shooting stills and video to demonstrate "tantric massage", where the photographer would massage my entire body, including genitals. He also wanted to have a rehearsal first before the cameras started rolling. I ended up reporting him tot he mods I think.

Then another one who wanted me to wear adult diapers and pose with baby toys etc. The photographer also said he likes to cross dress and asked if it would be cool for him to wear a cocktail dress and heels while they shot me. I stopped replying to that one.
Nothing against cross dressers but wearing a cocktail dress and heels to a shoot is just stupid.

Damn you are taking the cake so far! The first one is so flucked up, it pisses me off.  So many creeps on here. 
The second one cracks me up with the cocktail dress, just the idea gives me the giggles.  Again not the x dresser but the dress itself!

Robb Mann wrote:
About half of these ideas are clearly pandering to someone's fetish. Ive been doing this long enough to realize that whatever weird thing you can come up with, that's someones fetish.

Which is fine, but trying to sneak it into a TF shoot is weird.

I have no problem with fetish porn - Hell, we *all* have fetishes. But I agree, if you're looking to have someone help you get off by modelling or sharing in your fetish, you should be paying them for it. Unless it's one you both share and will enjoy equally.

Love_mya wrote:
the only worst shoot concept i have ever got was when i showed up to the shoot itself...the first part was just lingerie shots, which is fine and the second was bondage and fetish...

so i agreed, it was 1.5hours for $150.00... i rocked up there, and i got into my clothes.. and he sat back with a glass of wine.. where's the camera gears i ask him?.. and he said, there is none, you are just going to pose and there is no camera... so he showed me a laptop of the images he wanted me to pose simple poses.. i tried to do one pose.. but it felt too strange, really strange, like he was sitting there sipping his wine..
i ended up not doing shoot and he still paid me for my time...

thank god i dont get any more out of the blue ideas, i ask for all ideas, images if they can provide before i do a shoot...

He was a GWC, Guy Without a Camera!

Art of the nude wrote:
I don't think that asking an art nude model so pose nude, and semi nude, on a nice old couch is unreasonable, but I had no idea we were catering to a fetish with it.

By now I'm used to people making comments about the feet on open leg shots, or the armpits on topless portraits. But this one REALLY amused me. Someone invited this (18+) http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8373/8417 … 6e16_o.jpg to a CHAIR FETISH group.

Well, that IS a damn fine chair !!

Rik Image wrote:
Slightly off topic but related to Paige's post above.
I had a lady on here wanting me to TF for her online clothing store.
Using my studio, shooting over a dozen models, with hundreds of variations, then retouching the entire shoot to her spec's.
Lol the funniest part about it was that she seemed offended when I asked for a minimal rate on the project.
Some people must be on drugs or something.

I can go one better than that and say I was contacted by a model with no experience whatsoever who was looking for images for a new website, plus a calendar for 2014 - she wanted commercial usage rights for the images basically - all shot on my premises, all edited by me, etc ... basically the best part of a weeks worth of work for me. In return for all that work I get 3 unused images for my portfolio. If that sounds like a one sided offer you'll like this bit ... she wanted paying nearly £400 for her time in the studio as well as all the images, commercial rights etc etc.

Oddly enough it was an offer I declined.

Anastacia Swann wrote:
Having a completely random person on deviantart send me a message asking me to take pictures of myself looking like I was being kidnapped/beaten/tied up by terrorists. Worse part was he was from Afganastan.... Just a little bit odd...

Yeh i've had offers to shoot fake images of being taken hostage and being raped and stuff by soldiers.

Love_mya wrote:
the only worst shoot concept i have ever got was when i showed up to the shoot itself...the first part was just lingerie shots, which is fine and the second was bondage and fetish...

so i agreed, it was 1.5hours for $150.00... i rocked up there, and i got into my clothes.. and he sat back with a glass of wine.. where's the camera gears i ask him?.. and he said, there is none, you are just going to pose and there is no camera... so he showed me a laptop of the images he wanted me to pose simple poses.. i tried to do one pose.. but it felt too strange, really strange, like he was sitting there sipping his wine..
i ended up not doing shoot and he still paid me for my time...

thank god i dont get any more out of the blue ideas, i ask for all ideas, images if they can provide before i do a shoot...

He could have claimed to be doing drawings, bought paper for $10, and probably gotten lower rates.

Paige Morgan wrote:
Shooting commercial work (ads, catalog,images to be used on products,  website content, etc.) for free.

I totally agree. That trumps all the stupid "concepts" I've ever been pitched.

Gynxx wrote:
I got emailed to to a nude shoot (which is fine) but as I continued to read the email, the photographer stated that he enjoys bringing his 12 year old daughter and then asked if maybe we could do the shoot together WTF.

of all the weird stuff in this thread, i think this one beats them all.
simply amazing.

Elizabeth Walz wrote:
"There's no pay for this project but it's a great opportunity to get exposure!"

I'm so honored to even be considered to shoot with you, Mr. Guy-With-a-Camera, clearly you have so much influence and working with you will get me a Vogue cover.

You can't eat "exposure."

i get this pitch on a regular basis (well, not so much anymore) in regards to shooting for "exposure."

many photographers (and others) would certainly agree with you that you can't eat exposure... still, people will try anything to get something for nothing.

Gynxx wrote:
I got emailed to to a nude shoot (which is fine) but as I continued to read the email, the photographer stated that he enjoys bringing his 12 year old daughter and then asked if maybe we could do the shoot together WTF.

What? That is creepy

Jersey Shore wrote:
i get this pitch on a regular basis (well, not so much anymore) in regards to shooting for "exposure."

many photographers (and others) would certainly agree with you that you can't eat exposure... still, people will try anything to get something for nothing.

Not counting the commercial projects for free crap, my favorite "exposure" like was a photographer who told models he'd get them "International exposure by putting you on my FB fan page."  I guess that it's technically probably true, but . . .

Rik Image wrote:
Slightly off topic but related to Paige's post above.
I had a lady on here wanting me to TF for her online clothing store.
Using my studio, shooting over a dozen models, with hundreds of variations, then retouching the entire shoot to her spec's.
Lol the funniest part about it was that she seemed offended when I asked for a minimal rate on the project.
Some people must be on drugs or something.

This is the CraigsList culture where everybody always thinks you'll do whatever they want because, hey, it'll be good for you too. Even if it won't.

Anybody who does a commercial job for free is a sucker who's helping to kill this business.

As is anybody who takes short money to do a commercial job just to get the experience. It just trains those "clients" that they'll always be able to find a some stooge who'll take $150 so they don't have to spend the $1500 the job should cost.

David M Russell wrote:
They say nothing ventured, nothing gained. But really? The world is full of people who'll do anything for a price. Just pay those people to suck your toes (or whatever) and stop sullying our industry.

/rant

I think some people have a "fetish" for shocking women.  The thrill isn't in the act, it's in the response when they make the request.  Nothing else explains some of the crap I hear about.