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Old 07-30-2010, 01:20 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by AaronM View Post
Although I see some good points on both sides, the one thing that I can tell you is that the days of shooting the same girl for multiple clients in the same day are long gone for me. Not only did I find it a complete waste of time, I found that those clients were often the worst to deal with.

Beyond that...I think it's disrespectful, to my loyal clients, to offer to "piggy back" a cheap shoot off of their dime. Risking the loss of a loyal client for a few hundred bucks more is simply a foolish and greedy thing to do.

As for the client the extra stuff is being shot for, delivering a shot out model to them isn't really fair either. They may have a lower budget but they still want decent content for what they can afford. The only exception I can think of for working a model that hard is if you are shooting for a solo site and the "tired" look contributes to the "personality/different looks" factor.

There used to be a shooter here who got caught shooting the same exact sets and models for two clients. He would shoot for client A with Camera A on the right side of the bed and use camera B for client B on the left side. Just jump back and forth as the model stripped.

I guess what I'm getting at is that just because you "can" do something does not mean that you should.
Great post Aaron. Guess those piggy backing a "Free" shoot on another clients money don't have too many scruples.

Is that "Free" shoot the property of the guy who's paying the costs of the day. Morally or legally?

Peter, how do your clients think about this?
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