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PLAGIARISM STATEMENT - CYBERSTALKING
At the turn of the century, finding
a reputable professional photographer was not difficult. Professional photographers
who were in business were usually genuine because of the high cost of learning
and practicing their profession. Professional photography cameras of the time
used film and there were also development/ film processing costs involved.
Many professional photographers also invested in dark rooms where they could
develop their own film. This business overhead acted as a natural filter barring
a majority of unprofessionals who wanted to use photography for unethical
purposes.
This has changed.
With digital cameras rivaling film cameras in quality and the prices of these
new cameras dropping to easily-affordable consumer levels, the market changed.
Coupled with powerful consumer computers and easy-to-use inexpensive photo
editing software, there was no longer a high cost to photography. In 2007,
just about anyone can go to any retail store, buy a digital camera and cheap
software for their computer, and claim that they are a professional photographer.
The photography market is flooded with amateur, aspiring photographers, many
of whom doing it as a hobby or using it as a means to pick up attractive women.
Some use photography as a way of scamming people or setting them up for a
crime. Even more have no idea how to turn photography into a business or how
to run a business, and offer their services for free. This false economy undermines
the market for legitimate professionals, and makes it more difficult for those
who have paid their dues and who have become professionals to make a living
as photographers.
With all these guys with cameras running around doing photography free of
charge, this should be good for models, right? Wrong. This new market is a
minefield for models, and over 50% of the photographers in the market today
are either amateurs or are running some sort of model scam.
No one works for free, and there are no free services from the goodness of
one's heart, regardless of what they say. You really do get what you pay for.
When it comes to model portfolio photography, any free offer of services are
especially dangerous. The model puts themselves in danger and wastes a great
deal of time and energy by working with photographers who misrepresent themselves
or who don't have the skills that the model requires for their portfolio.
Time For Print (known as TFP or TFCD if the model obtains images on a CD instead
of prints) offers are supposed to be a beneficial collaboration between established
professionals who earn income in their profession. Professional collaborations
are fine if the photographer and the model already have established portfolios
and they have the professional skills needed to benefit the photography portfolio
and the modeling portfolio. The problem is that the TFP term has been hijacked
from it's original definition, and it now serves as a means to describe the
collaboration between amateurs in an attempt to build their portfolios. Becoming
a professional this way is not very safe or cost-effective. A lot of time
is wasted learning bad habits as the blind, in essence, lead the blind.
If you need a professional portfolio, which you will need to book work, you
are better off making it an investment and paying for it. Aspiring photographers
should pay professional models as they learn their craft, and aspiring models,
likewise, should pay a professional photographer for the modeling portfolio
which they must have.
Before we get into the steps of finding a professional photographer, models,
we will give you a basic rule of thumb to remember about risk assessment.
Risk assessment must be used with evaluating any photographer, and another
reason that you must become familiar with this process is that Independent
Modeling will be teaching the businesses and photographers who book models
into their jobs the process. Risk assessment is utilized to professionally
evaluate any professional who you are considering working with.
The level of career investment demonstrated directly correlates to the potential
professional risk posed as well as the level of professional accountability
for their actions.
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