On the site I have been using to network with models and photographers, model mayhem, one of the things that models can specify on their profile is whether or not they do nudes. Most profiles say no. I was seeing this and getting confused because they had nudes in their portfolios but I then worked out that there is a distinction between implied nudes and nudes. Implied means that you can be technically nude but not showing your junk and full frontal is the “nudes” that people are saying yes or no to. Or so I thought.
Every now and then you’ll come across a photo of someone and it may not be on their profile but on a photographer’s profile, but sometimes it’s on their own profile, and their they are in all their glory, their tackle waving at you but their profile says no to nudes. So does no really mean no?
maybe they accidentally took a naked pic of them self and then accidentally posted it…..you know accidents do happen???
It could be that they do not want people calling them up to see if they’re easy to get in bed with. The ‘no nudity’ puts up a boundary. They’ll do it, as long as the photographer or artist has a professional attitude. Frankly, these guys must simply enjoy doing it, because from what I understand, not much money is to be had by this work. A photoshoot for Abercrombie and Fitch: $500.00 a day. That’s all? Maybe if you make to the tiptop but good luck on that.
tjones i cannot believe A&F pays $500 a day when base models in australia get $100 or more per hour.
George, perhaps you are right, at least for Australia, but my understanding is that average pay for a model is $200-$500 a day for a photoshoot in the USA, as they are not salaried. You figure that a photographer wants to shoot during the 2 hours after sunrise and 2 hours before sunsest, since that is when the light is best, so that would add up in my estimation to the above payment scale, if in fact we are using your scale of $100 per hour. My understanding that the in store model’s job for A &F sucks–he is basically a glorified part time clerk folding clothes. As for studio work, I suppose it might pay better, as the light may be controlled. But even there, at a $100 or more an hour, does a photographer have about $800 a day to spend on a model, if we work it at 8 hours? Most photographers, from what I understand, simply don’t have that kind of money.
as in life, so, too, in modeling…”no” usually means “maybe.”
cheers!
maybe they changed to no after they saw pics of themselves naked..