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Originally Posted by DeanCapture
Hiring wedding & birthday photographers to shoot porn is your first problem. Your next problem is allowing those photographers to decide the pay scale.
First, you should be hiring photographers who know how to relate & build rapport with models - "especially" if they've never modeled for pictures before. Secondly, you should tell the photographers what you expect of them and then tell them how much the budget is and ask them if they can do it for that. I always appreciate when someone contacts me and spells out EXACTLY what they need and EXACTLY how much money that they have to spend.
And lastly, you MUST let the photographer know that if he/she doesn't meet your expectation and delivery good product - you're not paying for it. If you don't let them know this, you could really end up with some nasty shit.
Good luck......
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I appreciate your advice and it seems like you know what you are talking about. So far the right photographer is the missing piece. I know I have the wrong guy, but I have looked at whats available right now and basically selected the least wrong out of the wrong guys, temporary until I find someone even less wrong for the job.
I should not be doing this at all. I am not there physically, its all being handled through third parties, and as I have said I am counting on it being a flop. I just hope we can learn enough to have a better chance of success next time.
We had a good deal with the photographer we hired, he quoted us at 100 which was what I was expecting. Then he found out we were booking 5 girls and mentioned it was 100 per girl, and he wouldn't take more than 50 shots per girl.
I decided to cancel the whole thing and asked my guys down there to go kick him in the balls for me.
But they suggested we talk to him instead and we have worked out a compromise, let's see what we turn out with.