Autumn Rose Brightly wrote:
I am a people person and love working with photographers of all ages. For me it comes down to simply creating a great image. When I look at the camera with whatever emotion I'm conveying (be it relaxed, sensual, happy...) I am looking at the camera, not the photographer. For me one of the great things about modeling is when you make it about the lens and not the person behind it you connect on a deeper level with every person who views that image. For example, on this shot



I had literally just met the photographer 20mins earlier. I've had a few people comment on how relaxed and trusting on the photographer I was which isn't exactly true. I relax and trust the lens (or I try my best to anyway)

I hope I don't offend any photographers with this as I admire your talent and skill, I'm just explaining it from my POV

I have to say, that is spoken like a true professional! It could not have been spoken or said any better. This is precisely how one should look at feel about a shoot.

Ash Photographic wrote:
If you don't act like a creep then you won't be perceived as one.

I'm in my 50s and haven't had any problems because I treat my models as people and respect them and their boundaries regardless of age or what we're shooting.

This

Barely StL wrote:
Apparently it matters to some models.

Several months ago a photographer (considered by many to be one of the best if not *the* best artistic nude photographer on MM), who I believe in his 70's, received an email from an 18-year-old model informing him that he's too old to shoot nudes.

I won't name him, because that might be considered outing - but he did an amusing forum post on the subject.

I remember that one..

Harold Rose wrote:

The mind slows down at 30,   I sure feel sorry for you!!!

That's at least two of us who will feel sorry for anyone who finds their mind slowing at 30. We are both in the same age group.

Yippieskip wrote:
It depends on the photographer, but for the most part I will say that yes, for me it definitely does matter. I put eroticism into everything I shoot and I'm sorry, but if you look old enough to be my grandfather, it's not easy for me to bounce that sexual energy off you.

...excuse me while I take "Yippieskip" (...Yippieskip...REALLY?...) off my list of models to shoot with...

Randall_Oelerich wrote:
Curious what models think on this topic? I am mid-fifty, though as anybody over 30 will tell you we stop aging mentally at about age 30, a cruelty of biology to feel 30 but be trapped in an aging body (I look at older and old people now a lot different, realizing inside they are 30 though their skin sags and their hair thins and the bones weaken). The nature of models is pretty much self-selecting for beauty and a young age range of 16 to perhaps 30 at most. So we have photographers of whatever age, and young beautiful models-- does the age of the photographer matter to you models?  Does doing photoshoots with photographers twice your age bother you? What about even much older photographers say 65+, would that turn you off or would you look at that as a plus at having someone with more experience and skill to help you the model improve your portfolio and career?  ...

Since I'm nearly 47 I am going to try to answer from hindsight when I did my first few shoots over 20 years ago...

No, it has no bearing or worry.

My first day of shooting included a swimsuit. These two pics came from it. The color swimsuit photographer was over 50 and the other one had to be mid to early 40's.

Neither was creepy to me at all and it was obvious that we were trying to get the shot. I however was incredibly new to all of this and had no idea.


Thanks for the memory lane though!
Jen

p.s. this is great:

Rick OBanion Photo wrote:
At the same time my BS detector is finely tuned and I have little time for crap.
I survived cancer and three brain aneurysms.....all I see now is beauty and my job as a photographer is to capture what I see in my mind and make it digital.

Yippieskip wrote:
It depends on the photographer, but for the most part I will say that yes, for me it definitely does matter. I put eroticism into everything I shoot and I'm sorry, but if you look old enough to be my grandfather, it's not easy for me to bounce that sexual energy off you.

Well than your an ageist!  I see your comment about your first scene, I'm not sure but most of those running such sites are getting close to your age phobia.

I shoot 250 nudes a year and I am known for how comfortable I make my models and how beautiful an experience my shoot with them are.  But than again I am only old enough to be you father not your grandfather.... (Lol)

Kathleen Michaels wrote:
I do not have a problem with the age of a photographer. Never did. My first photographer was without a doubt twice my age (oh so many years ago). And now I don't mind shooting with photogs older or younger.

And I am not a young model... so maybe my thoughts do differ, but I agree with you, I am not here to find a date. Sometimes I get real frustrated at some of the guys who think that is what I am here for.

Kathleen

For the record.  No man thinks women are on mm to find a date.  We know better.  The men you are referring to HOPE you will respond to their advance as THEY are here looking, not for a date, but sex....a date leading to sex...etc....  Those are the creeps.  Those are the GWC's.  and their ports will always reveal who they are.