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Photographer

Jerry Nemeth

Posts: 33355

Dearborn, Michigan, US

CZ Digital wrote:
Stand on a busy street and throw a rock.  Chances are overwhelming that you'll hit at least one model on every toss. If you can skip a rock you'll likely hit a few...lol.  I'm just beginning shooting models (first real shoot scheduled in a few weeks), so I have nothing to show for the local beauty in my profile except a lot of pictures of my current g/f (the ballet dancer mentioned in my previous post), and an ex from Slovakia.

Trust me, they are STUNNING.  Part of their beauty is how down-to-earth they are - they see themselves as merely average or "nothing special".  They don't realize that "average" here puts you squarely in supermodel territory elsewhere in the world.

I have a very beautiful Czech model in my portfolio.  I've had 2 shoots with her.  She is not only beautiful.  She is a beautiful person.
She is in the Czech Republic now and just sent me a very creative Holiday Greetings card.

Dec 23 12 02:01 pm Link

Photographer

PTPhotoUT

Posts: 1961

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

MET Art requires 2257 documentation with any submission:

"All photographers / producers are required to submit proper documents of the model, stating that her age is over 18, when submitting photos, and movies to MET-ART."

Their statement that they are exempt because the pictures do not show "actual sexually explicit conduct" is incorrect (on their part). Underage models cannot be depicted in simulated sexual activity either. Also, they can not show their genitals prominently as part of the the picture. So, open leg shots are pushing it, and the closeups are definitely crossing the line.

Dec 23 12 02:46 pm Link

Photographer

Charlie Schmidt

Posts: 855

Kansas City, Missouri, US

Hector Fernandez wrote:
Its porn, softcore but porn and they sell child porn, its not that the girls "look" young, the girls are young.

Grigori Galitsin one of his most prominent contributors was charged and spent some time in a Russian jail due to shooting 16 y.o. girls that were forced to commit lesbian acts. And not only that, in the trial it was found that he even shoot 14 y.o. girls for "private collectors" The thing is that under the Russian (old soviet law) you could use 14 y.o. girls for posing for art (meaning paintings, sculptures, fine art photography, etc) but this guys used that holes in the law to do porn they mislabelled as art.

Met-art says that Galitsin lied to them and that they were victims too and all the horseshit but the fact is that many pictures done by others included under age girls. As a side note the prosecution were not able to demonstrate beyond doubt that the whole met-art operation is funded with money of drug traffic by the italian-russian mafia.

Where did you find this miss-information?

Dec 23 12 03:27 pm Link

Photographer

Mark

Posts: 2977

New York, New York, US

It's the only stuff I would shoot if I were granted just one damn wish!

Dec 26 12 12:14 pm Link

Photographer

ArtisticGlamour

Posts: 3846

Phoenix, Arizona, US

Mark wrote:
It's the only stuff I would shoot if I were granted just one damn wish!

+1, especially when it's too windy to golf! smile LOL!

My artistic tastes will always lean instead toward the self-confident "classic centerfold" ("porn", according to many here) side of 18+ glamour-nude and erotic photography.

Dec 26 12 12:42 pm Link