Model Connections: How to Recruit Nude Models, Direct Photo Shoots, and Build Working Relationships

Discovering new models is a constant challenge, as well as a source of inspiration. This guide is about finding outstanding models, working well with them, and building long-term professional relationships.This book offers clear and effective techniques to approach women and recruit them as nude models. These proven methods, honed through years of interaction, have succeeded with hundreds of female models. Through understanding the right language, harnessing a variety of internet technologies, and discovering the art of professional relationship building, you can unlock your model-recruiting potential. Many photographers spend countless hours seeking advice on how to find quality nude models and how to direct them in the studio. Too many photographers make initial contact with a model, only to be frustrated when she never follows through by booking a shoot. This guide addresses finding models and building long-term working relationships. Finding and interacting with models is not as difficult as it may seem. Working with nudes can be easy. This book dispels common misconceptions and gets down to business with the plain facts.You will learn the demographic and personality profiles of which women are most likely to want to pose for you. You can stop wasting your time on candidates who will string you along without ever committing to a photo session. And you will learn what kind of release to use, when to present it, and how to explain it. A sample model release is included in the book.

Author: A. K. Nicholas
Publisher: Bella Nuda Arts
Published: 01/02/2017
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9781946287021

About the Author
Nicholas, A. K.: - A K Nicholas is an art photographer from the United States who specializes in figurative imagery. A diverse background and traditional art education prompted him to develop a unorthodox aesthetic that blends sensual imagery with a painterly style of manipulated colors. He was introduced to art through museum visits and other cultural experiences in Europe, America, Africa, and Asia. Growing up the Middle East, he saw how women's bodies were hidden from public view. In stark contrast to this, Europeans mostly lacked prudishness. Compare those to the US, where we have a bifurcated culture: half of us celebrate our beauty while the other half shuns it. He did not become interested in art until high school. Taking a surrealism art history class, he realized he could explore art that interested him and began learning painting. His initial training with the nude was figure drawing while studying art in college. His first nude shoot was a complete surprise to him when a classmate in college assumed that his invitation to model meant for her to be nude. Although trained in drawing and painting, photography became his concentration by the conclusion of his art degree. Following art school, he put in his dues clerking and staffing the darkroom of a camera store. In the decades following his first shoot, he has photographed hundreds of nude models for pictorial books, limited edition prints, and his instructional books. In recent years he has dedicated himself full time to being an artist. He collaborates with models to create alternate realities, on what he calls a journey with no known destination. With his passion for sharing knowledge, he writes to help you learn from his experience, including how to avoid some common mistakes and to encourage your creativity.

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