Mallrat, let me explain. I cannot pay models because I do not have any assurance that I will get anything at all back from these photos.
Once my pictures are approved by a stock library they are competing for sales with literally millions of others. A picture might never sell (many don't) - or it might make me hundreds of dollars, I simply don't know. My rough expectation is that a photo session will make me between $20 and $200 over the next two years.
So far, I have concentrated on travel and food photography. This thread is a way of getting into model shooting. If it turns out well and I exceed my modest expectations, then later on maybe I will hire models. In the meantime, I want to test the water in a new genre and to pay prospective models with free photos shot on top-quality gear. I don't know where hypocrisy comes into it.
Tallg - the awful truth is that ugly doesn't sell too well, but that doesn't mean it isn't "allowed".
Mallrat, let me explain. I cannot pay models because I do not have any assurance that I will get anything at all back from these photos.
Once my pictures are approved by a stock library they are competing for sales with literally millions of others. A picture might never sell (many don't) - or it might make me hundreds of dollars, I simply don't know. My rough expectation is that a photo session will make me between $20 and $200 over the next two years.
So far, I have concentrated on travel and food photography. This thread is a way of getting into model shooting. If it turns out well and I exceed my modest expectations, then later on maybe I will hire models. In the meantime, I want to test the water in a new genre and to pay prospective models with free photos shot on top-quality gear. I don't know where hypocrisy comes into it.
Tallg - the awful truth is that ugly doesn't sell too well, but that doesn't mean it isn't "allowed".