You are so right...

Wow times HAVE changed indeed....

Love always

Celine

 

Some of that would seem like common sense to the average person...
Perhaps an IQ test prior to the shoot would help keep the idiots at bay.
Just a thought.
xoxo
you're awesome.
 

I much agree.

To add to it, I am troubled by the alarming number of "models" who feel that just because they call themselves a model, they are one and that gives them the right to charge a photographer, or to demand TFP or TFCD from a photographer. It's not the photographers job to provide the model with a portfolio out of their pocket! TFP and TFCD concepts are for TRADE, if a photographer doesn't need to trade his services AND product for his portfolio, then he has the right to charge, and if the photographer has been hired to do a job requiring him to find a model, then, it's the model's right to expect some form of payment.

But just calling yourself a model does not entitle you to free photo shoots and/or free prints from everyone.
 

i dont call myself a model, persay, but i have had pictures taken in the past. if they are ugly, i will fix them, even after the "photographer/wannabe artist" thinks his job is over. if im am recieving the pictures as form of payment [aka TRADE SERVICES] , and to be used in my protfolio, i have the right to do what i please with them, especially if they are going to be used as portfolio. i say this because my portfolio is a collection of my work, like a resume. i need to present myself in a specific way. therefore i, and all models/subjects, have the right to alter as needed. i do not condone reselling art that i have altered, because the original was not created by me. but in the instance that i am speaking, the only thing i am selling is my own image, which again, i have the right to portray as i see fit. i am tired of any douche bag with a camera thinking he is a god.
 

Bill I'm totally with you on this one.

If what that model said to you was so, why doesn't the model just plunk down the god-knows-how-much-dough your equipment costs you and take their own picture with god-knows-how-little-experience they have in using a camera.

I mean if it's 50-50, the model has the 50 every time they look in the mirror to brush their teeth. An interesting question, how come they didn't use the picture they took then and after that, photo shop the shot? That would be honest of them.

Maybe they'd get the point if when they asked for a picture, you whipped out your cell phone and took a picture and texted it to them.
 

Mr.
William Demichelle,

Based on our recent more colorful conversation I felt the dialogue I wanted to share on the subject matter would only be diluted by the amount of time you graciously shared with me.


When we look at the art of photography and ones expression of life in all its glory should foolish souls tamper? [A resounding no in all directions on the subject, it’s insulting to say the least.] For the ones who steal images I think we also see eye to eye on that one.


Reading further on the comments on just one of your blogs “Cell phone photo response would be far more appropriate.
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One step further Bill you have spent 38 years in the industry, art school, keeping up with technologies on all fronts (Note you shoot using two different camera lines “amazing” both guarded like old friends as I noticed the polished look around the 5d trigger), travel, lodging, and most importantly seldom mastered passion about expressing art in photos. I can offer you little advice in return on the erosion of a whole class of art. However, your thoughts should be heard on a much larger spectrum than myspace. I wonder would magazines even publish such talk of preserving the art form when they are struggling to make ends meet. You’re scratching at a much larger surface on many things that are happening to this world. It runs even deeper than paying the rent in other words when sometimes in life that’s all that really matters.


At one point I traveled the world and was paid for my small diatribes and images I presented. The travel industry imploded as you know and what is left? This internet wasteland of corporate driven bottom lines which most people lay shackled to. In the end we all suffered higher prices, long wait times at airports, massive lay offs, crap hotels toted as 5 stars appointed by themselves, useless security fees, fuel surcharges, and a consumer left holding the bag.
Pissed of to say the least usually needing a vacation from the vacation sound familiar?

Yeah, we didn’t even mention all these free contests popping up all of the sudden. It seems like every magazine, news paper; internet site has those catchy contests effectively rendering professionals obsolete in some cases. Sure, I was chewed up by 8 years in travel to be replaced by a box. The icing on the cake was watching the current first lady give a speech on a carnival cruise ship saying everything is going to be okay. Polishing brass on the titanic was hammering repeatedly in my minds eye. That is evolution some people say being discarded. I will pull the reigns a little tighter on my photo works as well because I’m only going to get better. Lastly, I feel being an amateur you share willingly your opinions and people should even if they don’t cross over to professional lend you an ear.


Reviewing the way you celebrate the female form with your own artistic interpretation! Trust me I will forward the link for your book maybe generating some sales at the least.


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To me after viewing a myriad of different works around the world in art. It’s the only thing worth saving from our recent 10,000 year stretch of enlightenment. My thoughts are this and what we need to preserve above all things. “The living arts that surround us” The music we dance to, the tears that well up in my eyes when viewing a beautiful Monet, that electric feeling knowing you got the shot of the day captured in light and the Earth in her simple captivating nature that houses human kind. I fear nothing in the destruction of false idols including Wall Street it was all coming. It comes in a far second anyhow for me. I have never lived by greed.


You want my opinion is we need a friggen huge calibration in what we stand for as a species. I bet you never heard of this before a global consciousness formed of common people that stand up and say I’m valuable dammit. They stand up and drop their guns and fight no political wars for archaic ideals. That if they believe in God as I do not bleed in a war to celebrate his great sacrifice or be judged by it. Everyone has the right to their immutable human laws and the people that govern should be held accountable for their manipulation of them. That the youth and me being from another phrase I coined a bridge generation; I see both sides clearly as if the crap was finally wiped form my eyes. I don’t question by what, time or life’s hard road. I said before some people in their foolishly squandered youth are worth saving. If I’m judged by that then once again I don’t give a rats a@@. If I can ask one thing as I see this phase as only a step back. Keep fighting to preserve the art you have chosen photography. It will most assuredly survive beyond your existence. Dedicate at least a fraction of a page to your abundantly strong feelings in words on the erosion. Laws, we are struggling with the burden of too many including intellectual rights.


By the way on a larger scale when the hell did the American people become not worth it…..Greed you say? One of several variations of what I consider a true axis of evil in our time. How do I tell my niece Sam photography is the right direction for her.


PS: I told you writing on that scrap paper I would find you and explain myself further. Usually I don’t get the chance to meet someone able to communicate five different conversations at once.


Regards,
Brian



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