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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Seasoned photographer offered a shoot (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by OtherwiseAd3154@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Hi! Apologies for the silly question.. a semi-professional photographer offered to do a shoot with me. However, didn’t mention a price when I asked what was needed from me & their general process. I have never been photographed before… (& I would obviously tip regardless if it’s a free shoot or not…) I just feel a little confused? If you reach out and offer to shoot somebody is it generally for your portfolio/free? I should add it is boudoir style photographer- & while I ironically had intentions of hiring him in the near future, he reached out first..? Thanks all! I am aware I could directly ask I fear I’m bad at picking up social cues & don’t want to come across as unintentionally naive

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[–] uggyy@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Ask.

Generally, if they approached you, it should be free with a certain amount of images in trade for your permission model release.

But ask to be clear as to what to expect.

I used to do the odd model shoot when I was bored this way or knew someone they had a look I really liked. I would tlc a decent amount of images for the model and get a signed model release for piece of mind.