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Welcome to the new home of the Central florida from the areas between Orlando and St Pete M&G chit chat thread" We hope to have our next meet & greet in September Feel Free to weigh into the conversation WELCOME! MAJOR UPDATE! GO TO THE EVENT THREAD TO GET YOUR NAME ON THE LIST https://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thre … age=1#last The next Tampa Bay Model Mayhem Meet & Greet is scheduled for: Saturday September 12, 2009 3 p.m. till just after Sunset CRABBY BILLS 401 Gulf Boulevard Indian Rocks Beach, FL 33785 (727)595-4825 Click here for a map.. ** (As of August 9) 25 people who are cooler, sexier, and funnier than everyone else are gonna be there. You should get on the list too! ** WOW! This place is what the beach is all about. Just across from the beautiful Gulf beaches, Crabby Bills is an open air restaurant with a full bar. Casual atmosphere, great seafood, cold drinks, the perfect Florida beach experience. No dress code I strongly suggest everybody bring their camera because once you see the sunset you are going to want to shoot there. MEET & GREET INFO Photographers - Chance to mingle, meet, network, get your questions answered in person by any one of your peers, eyeball potential models for future assignments before you book them, meet new models that you never knew looked so good that you definately will book in the future. Models - Chance to mingle, meet, network, network, network and start booking shoots. There will be a lot of photogs there. If you can't book work out of a meet & greet, or at least talk to a photog about booking in the future, you need to rethink your approach to this business. Cause seriously, there are guys there looking to shoot. MUA's - Again...network, network, network. I actually feel that you have the hardest job of booking work of all the parties involved in a shoot. And to be given an opportunity to make personal pitches to 50, 80, 100 people... That's a no brainer. The meet & greet is designed as a chance to meet new people, swap stories with old friends and talk bad about the others while they go pee. If you want to shoot, set it up before, after, or shoot just outside around the building or on the beach! Jun 22 09 04:24 am Link First. Coffee or Juice all around. Jun 22 09 04:51 am Link  So I tell her, look down and get the expression on your face that .... Oh my God, my boobs look amazing! (Which I feel is the default look when girls look at their boobs) Hilarity next ensued Jun 22 09 05:10 am Link   Jun 22 09 05:11 am Link Ahhhhhh fresh scent of new... Morning all... Nice work there Carl.. Jun 22 09 05:14 am Link Oh and Good luck to Chris Rifkin who has his AVI up in the Pic of the day contest https://www.modelmayhem.com/potd_contests.php Apparently they have 2 contests going? Looks like one is kind of hosted off site and is a blind vote as to the submitter I somehow got to it through the Contest forum, but I had to chase like 8 links to find it This is the one I voted in The other is in the General Industry thread It's stickied to the top of the page and I don't see your entry in there Jun 22 09 05:25 am Link Yeah,I'm in the official contest,the other one is Craig Seay' old one(and there is major drama in todays version,the one that is getting all the love is amazing btw)in the Geberal forums. Lets help me not get shut out. Got some amazing images Carl,and I CAN just imagine how funny that moment was with her. Jun 22 09 06:03 am Link Mark Reese Photography wrote: I'll take the coffee..... Jun 22 09 06:11 am Link Meela wrote: Checks for babies, sees none.. *Tackle Hug*. Jun 22 09 06:15 am Link Venti hazelnut latte please. With extra caffeine. Jun 22 09 06:18 am Link Carrie_K wrote: There is no more coffee Jun 22 09 07:44 am Link Mark Reese Photography wrote: OWWW!!!! Good thing I was headed to the dr.... Jun 22 09 07:56 am Link Hi... That's all... run by hi... Wheee! Jun 22 09 07:58 am Link Meela wrote: Yeah.. Um.. sorry 'bout the bruised shin from the footrest. Hope you don't have any shoots planned Jun 22 09 08:04 am Link Meela wrote: Need me to massage that pain? Jun 22 09 08:10 am Link EricaDean wrote: Look who it is, Jun 22 09 08:11 am Link Carrie_K wrote: I don't think it's the pain you wanna massage.. Jun 22 09 08:27 am Link Keith aka Wolfie wrote: Depends on where the pain is. Jun 22 09 08:30 am Link Carrie_K wrote: I think it's safe to say it wasn't her butt or bewbs.. Jun 22 09 08:32 am Link Keith aka Wolfie wrote: Bet she'd let me massage them anyway! Jun 22 09 08:36 am Link Carrie_K wrote: That's a bet I won't take; cause I am sure you're right!!!! Jun 22 09 08:38 am Link I am doing ok..thanks  I got a nasty sinus infection over vacation. steve is dropping off my new meds at target and will pick them up after work. So aside the sinus infection and feeling like I am hacking up a lung and my head will explode any minute....I am doing great. lol Jun 22 09 09:26 am Link mark.... the night sky photo........it was beautiful huh.. I just wish I hadn't misplaced my camera's battery charger. I would have had a lot more photos I would have taken....especially while at the Grand Canyon. Jun 22 09 09:28 am Link Meela wrote: Oh, that's hawt... Jun 22 09 09:33 am Link Keith aka Wolfie wrote: lmao...I thought you would like that Jun 22 09 10:36 am Link Getting back to shooting some weddings again, i'm shocked at how cheap people are selling their services in Tampa. $160 bucks for a full day and night event coverage? You get what you pay for I bet. Craziness. Jun 22 09 11:15 am Link Bill Blanchard wrote: WTF!!! Where did you see that?? Let's find the asshat and kick him in his asshat.. Jun 22 09 11:28 am Link Keith aka Wolfie wrote: Probably some cracker who thinks all you need is a camera from superwalmart to be swimming in the bucks. No creative eye at all Keith. Cookie cut images and over exposed. I think your safe from the competition. Jun 22 09 11:35 am Link Bill Blanchard wrote: Sad thing is, people seem to be more interested in price and not quality.. I replied to one ad to see what their budget was, looking for 11 hours so I figured it had to reasonable, slap me now and hard, they offered $500... I told them good luck.. And clearly stated they wouldn't get anyone of quality to do a pressure shoot like that for $500.. Jun 22 09 11:58 am Link Keith aka Wolfie wrote: well hell..lets register the domain: superbudgetweddings and get going keith. thats how you get the work Jun 22 09 12:09 pm Link Bill Blanchard wrote:
Jun 22 09 12:11 pm Link Keith aka Wolfie wrote: Sadly, I bet many would love that. Jun 22 09 12:15 pm Link Meela wrote: There was a guy in IL, just before digital. He'd show up at the wedding, you gave him the film and $100, he gave you back the film at the end and went on his merry way... Jun 22 09 12:31 pm Link Meela wrote: True.. But hey, if that's what they want, fine.. No guarantees.. But I will shoot in large jpg.. Jun 22 09 12:32 pm Link joeyk wrote: Nice... A 5 pac of Kodak gold 400 and good to go.. Sad.. Jun 22 09 12:33 pm Link Keith aka Wolfie wrote: perfect. will use my leica d-lux 4 then for the good jpeg in camera processing. hmm..this might be tempting to try. lol. Jun 22 09 12:39 pm Link One thing I don't think most studios were ever good at was giving the consumer a reason to use them. Oh sure they did business, but why? Because you were supposed to get a family portrait once every 5 years. Because you got the kid's pictures done for their birthday. Because a wedding photographer was important. Because senior pictures were a right of passage. So they just continued to raise the price on what they were already doing and made a great living. Consumers don't care as much about quality as we do, they want record keeping. Today, they can do that about as well themselves. And certainly a guy can and will for a ( couple of ) hundred bucks... Jun 22 09 12:44 pm Link joeyk wrote: Unfortunately it's the WalMarting of society.. I mean, it use to be that pictures were for the elite/wealthy or for very special occasions. Now, as you said, nearly everyone can do it themselves and get decent shots. Just not really unique or special. Jun 22 09 01:37 pm Link Keith aka Wolfie wrote: Studios, and the PPA ( and other such organizations ) do a terrible job of letting the consumer know the benefits of a "good" studio experience. The ave customer wouldn't know a good image if it bit them on the ass... Jun 22 09 02:02 pm Link joeyk wrote: True.. Kinda like people buying internet vs local.. When things are relatively close of course.. Jun 22 09 02:18 pm Link |
Tell ya what, I'll work for that, but there's no editing, no prints, just right from the camera.. Hell, I'll buy a bunch of cheap ass CF cards and that's what you get at the end of the nite.. Low overhead and high profit.. 