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•Model Release Form
•What is a Trade Shoot TFP/TFCD?
•The Photographers Right
•Advice to Aspiring Photographers

Models Release Form

Model Release Date: __________________________________________
Photographer: ________________________________________________
Photographer’s signature: ______________________________________
Location of shoot: _____________________________________________
Description of shoot:_____________________________________________

For valuable consideration, I hereby give the above photographer permission to use my picture and I authorize the use and reproduction of it by you (the photographer), or anyone authorized by you. This includes any and all photographs which you have this day taken of me. All digital images, negatives and positives, together with the prints shall constitute sole property of the photographer.

I understand that I may use the photographer’s images for my self promotion and personal use and only if the photographer’s credit and copyright appear on the image. I do not have rights to commercial sale of these images unless that is agreed to in writing. If I elect to use any images on the web, I agree to make a link to the photographer’s website. I understand that I have the option to purchase additional rights to use these images in any manner I wish.

Model’s name (print name): _____________________________
Signature of Model: _____________________________________
Address:________________________________________________
Phone number: ____________________
e-mail: ________________________________________________

Trade modeling services for CD, (TFCD):
the photographer grants the model the right to use any images provided without modification for self promotion and non-commercial personal use on condition that the model always includes a legible photographer’s credit on every image, whether in print or online. Photographer retains all other usage right for all images, but will make an attempt to provide prints or other consideration if any image should be published.

Time for Print TFP/TFCD

Time for Prints (or Trade for Prints or Test for Prints) is a term used in many online photography communities describing an arrangement between a model and a photographer. It is often abbreviated TFP. Instead of paying for each others services, the photographer agrees to provide the model a certain number of prints of the best photographs from the session and a limited license to use those prints, in return for a broad model release.

A variant of this arrangement is Time for CD or Trade for CD (TFCD). With TFCD, the selection of images is provided on a CD in lieu of prints. Similarly, with the ease and convenience of digital distribution of high resolution images, the term TF* has evolved, where it does not necessarily refer to a tangible CD or Printed image since the same accepted rules apply.

There are no "standard" terms for a TFP/TFCD shoot. Every photographer and model have preferences on how to arrange and execute the shoots. However, the following conventions are common:

Model is responsible for wardrobe and makeup expenses.
Photographer is responsible for any location permits or studio and equipment rental.
Photographer is responsible for any print, CD media, and shipping costs.
Each participant is responsible for their own transportation.
Photographer will obtain a signed model release to use the photographs for portfolio, art print, or commercial purposes.
Model will receive a license to use the photographs for their portfolio, comp card, and online portfolio.
The photographer will choose the best photos to retouch and send to the model.
The amount of retouching also varies by photographer.
The total time to select, retouch, and send the photographs to the model can range from one week to several months.
The make-up artist may request a small "kit fee" from the photographer or model to recover makeup costs.
Themes and wardrobe requirements are arranged prior to the shoot by telephone, in person, or over email.
Some photographers only provide low-resolution photos (for online posting), others provide high-quality photos for printing.
The photographer may require that all photographs posted online include a watermark (to deter image theft) and attribution.
The model cannot sell the photographs to any web site or submit them to magazine/online contests without permission.
If the model is under 18, a parent is usually required to attend the shoot and sign the release.
The photographer may have rules about whether the model can bring a guest and how the guest can participate in the shoot.

While some professional photographers and models arrange TFP/TFCD shoots for personal projects, these terms are only common among the participants of Internet modeling and photography communities. Instead, commercial and fashion agencies, photographers, and models use a test shoot (also referred to as a "model test" or simply "testing"). Test shoots differ from TFP/TFCD in important ways:

They are usually arranged through the model's agency.
The model does not sign a model release, but the photographer and model can use the photographs for portfolio purposes.
For test shoots to build a model's book, the model generally compensates the photographer, make-up artist, and stylists for their time at a special rate for testing.
In some cases, the model's agency may pay for the shoot out of the model's future earnings.
For test shoots a photographer arranges to try an idea, the agency may provide the model at no cost in return for some shots for the model's book or feedback on a new model's ability.
The styles of photography are generally commercial or editorial print--the same genres the participants shoot for clients.
Test shoots are not used for glamour, art nude, casual portraits, or erotic/adult styles, since these offer no benefit to a commercial or fashion model's portfolio.

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_for_print

Advice to Aspiring Photographers

by Chris Dela Cruz

For starters

Shoot your friends and family. This will help you learn how to give instructions to models and direct them. Help aspiring models since both of you are learning at the same time. It is ok if your models are not model material at this time. You need people who will be patient with you when you don’t know how to set your light and meters yet.
Approach Pro models when you have learned enough skill and become more confident for you will learn a lot from them in terms of posing and you can use there photos for your portfolio but don’t charge them yet. This is what you call Trade shoots.
Expose yourself with the works of masters in photography and other internationally known artist. Read books and magazines. Surf the net for images. This way you can develop your taste level. Find inspiration but do not imitate.
Read books and attend seminars. You don’t need to pay a lot of money to learn. Use www.youtube.com, deviantart.com and other resources on the net. A lot of photographers are self-taught.
Ask questions to other photographers if you don’t know something.
Have an interest beyond photography for they will be the subjects of your works.
Do not build your portfolio too much that you fail to move on. You need around 20 photos only to present but they have to be excellent.
Make your portfolio flexible. Select images to be placed on your portfolio that is appropriate to your clients needs. They don't want to see portraits if they are looking for product shots.
i. On apprenticeship. Do offer your time to pro photographers who indeed have genuine concerns for your growth and not just trying to exploit you.

When already starting

Do not give your services for free to clients who can afford to pay. A lot of businesses offer trade shoots thinking that aspiring photographers needs it to practice and for exposure. If you do this make sure that you get a lot of advertisements for your name or free products and services but don’t rely on this too much or you might be known as the free photographer and not a professional photographer. I don’t even think that advertisements helps that much. Your work and PR is what will give you work.
Always put in writing your agreements before you start your work or at least make an agreement as to how many image you will deliver, when you will deliver and how will the photos be used. If they need your RAW files. How complicated the PP would be and etc….
Ask questions first before you make a quotation. Don’t offer fix rate. Every client has different demands from you and each has a different use for your images. This is what I can think of for now. I hope this helps.