Finally, a protest worth photographing!

Good for them! In art school we had an amazing nude model, "Eddie" who was about 75 yrs old and very fit. He took great pride in his body and he could hold a pose for an hour without moving the slightest bit. He had studied Greek and Roman art and knew all the poses of the famous statues. Of course I would rather have been drawing younger specimens, and of the other gender, but Eddie was something else. He's the only one whose name I remember 30 years later...
 
Yeah, yanidel hasn't been around yet. Maybe he's still in the darkroom?

fingers crossed....

The picture that went with the article was pretty nice though at least.
 
Pablito said:
He's the only one whose name I remember 30 years later...
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It sounds to me like Eddie was as much a teacher as he was a model. The young girls with pert nips might be more to fantasize about and drool over, but you seem to have received a much better experience... an education.
 
I was there.....

I was there.....

But I found the view restrictive through my viewfinder, so unfortunately, I did not get a snap off! Sometimes the view is just too overwhelming to remember the camera.
 
Good figure study models are hard to find, 20 Euros an hour would be closer to the mark, IMO.

If you've never taken 3 plus hour classes with good models, you probably have no idea how much work it can be or how valuable a good model, old, young, tight body or obese, regardless of gender, is. Often times, serious artists will take turns modeling among themselves because they can't find or afford a decent salary for a 'pro'.

One thing is for sure though, bad ones don't last long among non-photographers, no mater how 'pert' they might be.

Eli
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
That's twice what they get here. Indiana University at Fort Wayne only pays $10 an hour (5 Euros if I remember the exchange rate correctly!) for nude models for their art school classes.
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I pay $50 an hour for my models, with a four-hour minimum. Cheapest I've ever gone was $20 an hour, nearly forced on a girl who didn't want to be paid. I had to explain why payment is one of the essential elements of a contract, that Virginia requires a minimum payment before the contract is legally enforcable, and that I couldn't use her photos if she didn't take the money.
 
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FallisPhoto said:
I pay $50 an hour for my models, with a four-hour minimum. Cheapest I've ever gone was $20 an hour, nearly forced on a girl who didn't want to be paid. I had to explain why payment is one of the essential elements of a contract, that Virginia requires a minimum payment before the contract is legally enforcable, and that I couldn't use her photos if she didn't take the money.
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That's a fair price. I've never hired a model, don't need them for the type of work I do, but when I was an art student, I was told what the school paid and I couldn't believe it was so little. Those European models protested about getting 4 times that, but here people just let themselves be enslaved.
 
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