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Tearsheets---Playboy/Maxim/FHM/anything
Okay all you most excellent MM fotogs out there... I hear fotogs talking about shooting for submissions to X magazine or Y magazine ... what is this all about? Do these mags take cold submissions? Just send stuff in out of the blue? I'd love to get a tearsheet for my port, but my work is far from there yet, but it's something to work toward... help a brother out with some 411 moon Sep 18 05 12:04 am Link Photographers are always submitting to publication for possible work. That's why your hard copy (prints) portfolio is often as important or more important than a website or online portfoliol listing; you have to have something to send them. You have to assume that its possible every publication takes cold submissions. Now whether they actually look at your stuff is another matter..lol Sep 18 05 12:49 am Link Anybody can submit anything to anybody... whether the item is accepted (or even looked at) is a totally different matter. Lots of GWC's will advertise that they are looking for models to submit to Playboy. In reality, they're usually just trying to get a naive female to get nekkid for 'em. [repeat my first sentence]. Similar ads are found by GWC's claiming they are shooting for similar magazines. It's rare that any of them are serious. Sep 18 05 01:09 am Link Moondragon wrote: I found an interesting twist on this... I sometimes submit the MODEL without any particular care, or eager instance, that my particular images will be published. Some of the biggies in publishing will pay a finders fee just for a model they want to shoot themselves... as long as you can make the model in your submitted images fit the "models wanted" mould for that publication. Sep 18 05 08:45 am Link The feature in "(NotOnly)Black+White" was effectively a submission. This was the single most desirable magazine to me way back when. My rep bugged the photo editor with emailed pictures until he agreed to look at original art. We shipped first my portfolio, then the selected transparencies (copies), as they weren't allowing scans or digital files back then, and a few weeks later a writer called from Australia for an interview, which resulted in the write-up to go with the pictures. Seemed like a decent fee, but it was in $AUS, alas, and in the end it didn't cover shipping and insurance. The models liked the tear sheets though. Other submittals have resulted in lost original art and complete lack of response. It's far better to have a connection inside, any kind at all, to keep a lookout for your stuff and pimp it as necessary. -Don Sep 18 05 03:28 pm Link |
