Should I hire a photographer

[usmcvma]

I am a 35 year old male and I was wanting to have tasteful nude photos of myself taken. Should I do self portraits? If a pro should they be a male or female? I would like the photos to be something that a girlfriend might want to receive as a gift. What should I do?

Thanks

 

[MohaimenK]

You should contact SchwettyLens. Should be able to help you with it :thumbup:

 

[ababysean]

MO! Stop being so Modest! You are perfect for the job!

 

[Robin Usagani]

you need to hire somebody youll feel comfortable with (male or female.. not sure). You need a contract that says that the photographer will ERASE everything when you have the product. Mohamein does a lot of studio photos.. I dont.

 

[Village Idiot]

This thread is full of win, win, win no matter what
tasteful nudes on my mind and I can never get enough
and everytime I step up in the building
everybody hands go up
and they stay there
and they say yeah
and they stay there
Up down, up down
cause this thread is full of win win win
and if you goin’ in put your hands in the air..

 

[Geaux]

You should contact SchwettyLens. Should be able to help you with it :thumbup:

this. :lmao:

 

[Robin Usagani]

You want schwettyBalls.. not schwettyLens

 

[photogoddess]

you need to hire somebody you'll feel comfortable with (male or female.. not sure). You need a contract that says that the photographer will ERASE everything when you have the product. Mohamein does a lot of studio photos.. I dont.

This is partially right and partially not. Finding someone that you're feeling comfortable is a big thing. Erasing the images - not so much. I do several hundred boudoir and dudoir sessions a year and archive for a period of time. My clients are grateful as they know that they can come back during that time for extra prints or albums. My reputation is sterling and never EVER have I had problems with images making their way to the internet or public without me posting it to my blog or site WITH a signed model release by the client. No release, no one outside of my studio and lab ever see the images.

usmcvma - if you're interested, I'll be in San Antonio in January speaking at the Digital Wedding Forum Convention and will be available for a very limited number of sessions.

 

[Robin Usagani]

And yet I see posts on internet a lot where people recover nude pics on hard drives. When your hard drive goes bye bye and you dont have a back up, what do you do? Dont tell me you just send your HD to get recovered with full of private photos. I promise you one of these punks who work for the data recovery companies will leak the photos.

you need to hire somebody you'll feel comfortable with (male or female.. not sure). You need a contract that says that the photographer will ERASE everything when you have the product. Mohamein does a lot of studio photos.. I dont.

This is partially right and partially not. Finding someone that you're feeling comfortable is a big thing. Erasing the images - not so much. I do several hundred boudoir and dudoir sessions a year and archive for a period of time. My clients are grateful as they know that they can come back during that time for extra prints or albums. My reputation is sterling and never EVER have I had problems with images making their way to the internet or public without me posting it to my blog or site WITH a signed model release by the client. No release, no one outside of my studio and lab ever see the images.

usmcvma - if you're interested, I'll be in San Antonio in January speaking at the Digital Wedding Forum Convention and will be available for a very limited number of sessions.

 

[Rosshole]

And yet I see posts on internet a lot where people recover nude pics on hard drives. When your hard drive goes bye bye and you dont have a back up, what do you do? Dont tell me you just send your HD to get recovered with full of private photos. I promise you one of these punks who work for the data recovery companies will leak the photos.

Then their ass and their companies reputation is on the line. You would sign a contract with them, right?

 

[MohaimenK]

damn Schewetty u paranoid sonnnn. Send me the HD I'll recover them for you

 

[Robin Usagani]

So we are back to signing a contract. If I am the model, yes I want a contract. I pay you to take my naked pics.. No i dont want to show it to anyone else but my girlfriend. when it is done.. delete them. Easy... I dont want to rely on the photographer to make sure where the hard drive will end up. I mean the photog's puter can crash and decide to buy a new one. The computer may end up in an alley or a garage sale with the HD attached to it.

And yet I see posts on internet a lot where people recover nude pics on hard drives. When your hard drive goes bye bye and you dont have a back up, what do you do? Dont tell me you just send your HD to get recovered with full of private photos. I promise you one of these punks who work for the data recovery companies will leak the photos.

Then their ass and their companies reputation is on the line. You would sign a contract with them, right?

 

[ucddyan]

So we are back to signing a contract. If I am the model, yes I want a contract. I pay you to take my naked pics.. No i dont want to show it to anyone else but my girlfriend. when it is done.. delete them. Easy... I dont want to rely on the photographer to make sure where the hard drive will end up. I mean the photog's puter can crash and decide to buy a new one. The computer may end up in an alley or a garage sale with the HD attached to it.

And yet I see posts on internet a lot where people recover nude pics on hard drives. When your hard drive goes bye bye and you dont have a back up, what do you do? Dont tell me you just send your HD to get recovered with full of private photos. I promise you one of these punks who work for the data recovery companies will leak the photos.

Then their ass and their companies reputation is on the line. You would sign a contract with them, right?

Even if you delete the photos from your computer the information can be recovered from your HD - at least on a PC. Short of re-installing your operating system after wiping the HD completely clean (or smashing the HD with a hammer) the photos may still available to someone with recovery knowledge and access to your HD. So in the end, it doesn't matter whether the photographer "deletes" the photos from his/her computer after delivering the photos, the information is still there in little tiny bytes for someone with the right knowledge to access.

Just go with a photographer you trust and you are comfortable with.

 

[Robin Usagani]

but if you delete it of the hard drive, something else will be written on the same sector eventually. I really dont understand why you people telling me why it shouldnt be on the contract.

 

[ucddyan]

but if you delete it of the hard drive, something else will be written on the same sector eventually. I really dont understand why you people telling me why it shouldnt be on the contract.

"eventually" being the functional word there. Another way someone with computer smarts could access the data is if you're like most people who set your computer up to save intermittent system restore points (which is a default with Windows). Lots of way to recover data from a HD. It may look like it's gone, but there's something there. That's assuming someone cares enough to look for it.

If you're that paranoid, you should be more worried about the contract saying "The HD and any other physical media the data are on should be 1) encrypted, 2) password protected, 3) only accessible by the photographer, 4) never to be sent out to a computer repair service, and 4) should be physically destroyed prior to being discarded by the photographer for any reason." That way you can still get prints at a later date if you want them, and the HD can't be sent out to those good-for-nothing recovery techs.