Proper photographers or plain perverts?
There're so many lecherous 'photographers' out there and I just have to voice my feelings out here. I guess in Singapore there're quite a lot of these kind of guys, just because they have a DSLR etc and they prance around with it and take smutty shots and they call themselves 'photographers'. It's such an insult to those who are REAL photographers please!
I know there are prolly a few photographers who are reading this right now.. if you're someone like that - you disgust me. I've had quite a few messages from some photographers, who pretend to be so nice and professional initially, but a few messages later they just ... -___- For goodness sake, please display some professionalism and AT LEAST A MODICUM of respect for the other party. So far my shoots have been ok.. If I ever get a photographer who says stuff such as "CHEST OUT, TOP PULL DOWN SOME MORE, LEGS WIDER, BUTT QIAO ABIT MORE", I will walk out of the fucking shoot, I swear.
First off, I'm posing for a fashion shoot - not for some smutty website or for your sick pleasures.
Secondly, I know how low my top can go before it goes from tasteful to slutty. I don't care if you're paying me. You can jolly well take your money and pay some other girl who would be willing to pose nude for you. Or even better, save the money. Just stay home and watch porn, like that cheaper, safer also. Unless you watch child porn - then you fucking deserve to be caught by the police lah.
I once met this guy who arranged for us to do a shoot. He was very insistent on seeing what clothes I had and, annoyed, I lied saying that my laptop's webcam is spoilt.. Bloody wanker still can ask me to download Skype!!! JUST FOR HIM!!! As though he's paying me $5K for the shoot liddat, siao. I have been completely ignoring him ever since hahaha. And recently I found he has been banned from a certain club on Facebook because, I quote "he's so shit - amateur photog and talk so much, no portfolio".
I'm still very new to this industry, but it doesn't mean I don't know my own rights. SOMETIMES (sometimes only kay, cos other times I'm really busy), if I don't reply emails, it simply means I don't have a good feeling about shooting with you. And you know, women's sixth sense is really accurate. :)