Forums > Model Colloquy > Should Photographers Credit Their Models on MM?

Photographer

Drew Smith Photography

Posts: 5214

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

This is one of my pet peeves! sad

As you can see I credit everybody involved. On occasion I may mis a credit because I know that model is credited elsewhere in my port.

I often see UK photographer's ports without model credits. I'd love to shoot with some of these models and it frustrates me that I don't have any easy way of contacting them.

Recently I sent a PM to one such photog and asked him if he could tell me who 'such and such' a model was in his port because he hadn't credited any of them.

He wouldn't tell me - his excuse was that once a model he'd credited was booked by another photog after seeing her in his port and she had a 'bad' experience with him. So now he doesn't credit any of them.

LOL roll

Nov 22 12 09:27 am Link

Photographer

JoPaRoImages

Posts: 30

Pinehurst, North Carolina, US

Erik Ballew wrote:
I always do, but I find that I also hardly get credit from the model, witch I'd love to get, since the models get all the views...

+1

Nov 22 12 07:48 pm Link

Photographer

Herman Surkis

Posts: 10856

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Yes

Nov 22 12 11:14 pm Link

Photographer

Sonn

Posts: 338

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

I only credit people who have profiles on mm.

Hardly any of my models come from mm anymore.

Thats why some of my shots wont have a credit for the model.

Nov 22 12 11:24 pm Link

Photographer

Chesterfield Hector

Posts: 171

London, England, United Kingdom

I shoot models from all over the world so I don't credit if they aren't from modelmayhem.

Also If I have paid a makeup artist then I don't credit them

Nov 22 12 11:49 pm Link