Working with erotic magazines - a question

Print mags that can afford that much per set usually have photographers on retainer.

Yes,but there are lots of the magazines,and maybe they want cheaper photographer but good professional

forget it Vlad - magazine business is dying - some magazines still pay $2500 a set but how many sets can you sell a year at that price - not that many and they pay when they publish - you can wait up to a year to get paid. fuck that.

so what is the solution?
to make my own paysite??

As a Publisher.

We are always looking for photographers, to submit sets to us. You can contact wallp at scoregroup.com and get more information.

We publish niche magazines, SCORE, Voluptuous, XLGirls, LegSex, Naughty Neighbors, 40Something, and Newcummers.

The difference between print and websites, is that we have a limited number of pages and sets we publish per magazine.

Hi Erasmo!

It's me Vlad Egorov
We talk via ICQ.
What can you say about waiting a year for the set payment?
it is true?cos even met-art pays after they get the set on thier FTP.
I'm going to shoot smth for you and I was astonished of the Mutt answer

I have shot for print mags (still do) and I can tell you that if you can FTP the set it isnt good enough quality. Everytime I ever shot for a print mag they want raw files 6MP or higher, professionally shot with good makeup artists.

I rarely shoot on spec, instead I get test shots of the girl and send them to the magazine, if they OK her then I shoot her, that way I dont waste anyones time, including my own. I have shot for LFP and Genesis to name a few.

score-cash hit me up if you want I get girls all the time wanting to do solo with toys and harder, most have never been shot before, many never shoot for anyone else.

it's true - you get paid by magazines when they publish the set - Score Group included.

Score Group does NOT pay $2500 a set - nowhere close.

more answers pls?
I think Score Group are good guys ;) ,but i don't know about the terms

Most sets we buy are used in less then three months. In the old days, waiting a year was common as we locked in more sets, for future magazines. That's why our editors pick out the models we plan to use now, so they commit to useing them in a magazine they will be working on next.

That's great for them, we have our own policies, which are common in the print industry, everyone has to do what works best for them.

Thanks!

A photographer should have more then one source of income and print is one of them.

This is exactly how we like to work. We ask photographers to shoot a frontal, side, and back shot. Not a set. A frontal, side, and back shot, so that we can see all the imperfections.

Working like Mike has mentioned is best for everyone.

If anyone is interested in submitting to SCORE, Voluptuous, XLGirls, LegSex, Naughty Neighbors, 40Something, and Newcummers.

E-mail: wallp at SCOREGroup.com

Peter will provide you a photographers guidelines and it will detail, as to what type of models we are looking for and payment method.

No way that will ever happen

Now I think so too - a BIG pity though ;(

Will copy this to Eva.

We have been shooting for magazines for decades and it's true the magazine business is waning from the great days. But there's still a good income to be made from them.

Here are some tips.

Go down to your local store and buy up the magazines you think you can shoot for. No one I know starts out shooting for Playboy and Naughty Neighbors.

Study the pictures content, girls, poses, looks. Get a feel for the magazine and it's niche/style.

Find brand new girls that match the girls in the magazines, better would be good, use similar style locations but not the same. Shoot similar sets but not the same. The time to innovate is when you know what to do.

Shoot a set and take your time. This is not a time to be shooting 5 sets and videos in 6 hours. A good magazine day is 1-3 good sets. It will knock into a cocked hat what Met-Art pay. But don't give up on them yet. LOL

Contact the editor and introduce yourself. Get his email address. Submit to the editor a few pics via email if you can and wait for a response. Don't contact him cold until you have content to show him. He's bothered all day long by wannabees who have nothing to show him.

Yes you have to wait for your money, yes they are picky, yes the odds on breaking in are against you.

Yes they pay up to $2400 for a solo girl set non exclusive, you can sell a good solo girl set for $5,000. You won't sell a bad one though. Just get a good girl, good camera, and shoot a good set.

You can submit the girl first, but as a professional shooter you should know what a magazine buys.

Shoot two sets in a day, cost $500 for the model. Sell them to the US, UK, EU first rights and you can come out with $5,000 worth of sales. Or nothing.

VERY VERY IMPORTANT

You get the color balance and exposure right.
You get a good spread of poses clothed and naked.
Get the poses right.
You get cover shots, these are shots for the front cover and centre spread.
You get the girl right, she has to look into the camera with a thought in her head that says what the magazine is selling. That's the tough one.

hmmm will the money given to you by the magazine company be worth your copy?

Paul,

Great post and Great advice!

Vlad, create your own paysite or add it to some affiliate programm