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    I got offered a All Expense paid trip to Vegas
    For 1 Week in February by a Photographer to do a shoot.

    Ive never done a "far" away shoot,
    and if all checks out.. This could be
    a opportunity of a lifetime..

    But i would have to go alone and leave
    my husband and son for a week.

    Would you do it..
    Ive never met this person before
    But he shot for Playboy Golf.

    Any Advise?
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    referrals and make sure you have enough money to get yourself back if shit goes south, including having your own ability to pay for a plane ticket home even if he's already paid for one.

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    ^^^ That is EXACTLY right. OP, you never go anywhere that you can't afford to get back from.

    You need to be VERY VERY careful with this. First, get in writing what he's offering you, including where he's offering to put you up & where the photos will be used. You might even ask him to send you the contract & model release forms in advance, then have a lawyer look them over. Get extra references, primarily from other models who have traveled to him. Third, check the internet up, down, & around for anything scrubby about this guy.

    I'm just going to tell you this: pretty women are a dime a dozen... so think carefully about why this guy would be offering an amateur model something like this.

    There was a photographer awhile back in another state who many models were traveling to. The agreement was that they were just going to be taking glamour photos. Low & behold a few months later I'm surfing around & find something about the photographer, whose name I recognized. I went to his website & noticed that he not only had the photos posted, but also video online of people I knew personally - totally nude. I contacted a few friends who were on the website, & low & behold none of them knew he had nude videos of them! The guy was a total creep running a huge membership site & none of these models realized it or that he was taking nude video of them. Sure, you can sue in a situation like that... but the damage is done & some of those women will have nude videos floating around the internet forever.
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    I TOTALLY Understand!!
    I was just wondering , If everything checked out
    and i had the money to get back, And
    the references checked out, If you would do it.

    The guy has called multiple times..
    But i never answered , Kinda nervous
    its to good to be true..

    But he is listed as a Playboy Photographer
    And there a few girls on his page
    that say he was their first photographer
    and they LOVED him for makeing them what there where today..

    He also said he liked doing amateur girls
    because if they make it big hes to credit haha.

    But thanks girls for the caution, i was just curious
    if this sounds like a good opportunity , if everything
    checks ok.

    But whoo , after this , I got total Vegas fever!
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    ^^^ Even the Playboy photographer credit shouldn't mean you put full trust in him though. I know a lot of photographers who have shot the golf events, castings, etc. Rarely will I say the photography is really good. Playboy has some excellent photographers, but the ones that are really great are STAFF photographers. Playboy only has 10 staff photographers

    Arny Freytag - LA contract photographer
    Stephen Wayda - LA contract photographer

    George Georgiou - Chicago
    Jarmo Pohjaniemi - Miami
    David Rams - Atlanta
    Ric Moore - Dallas
    Mizuno - LA
    Gen Nishino - NY
    Byron Newman - London
    Waldy Martens - Vancouver
    Paul Buceta - Toronto

    The first 4 on that list are the most well known. A few very famous photographers have left Playboy as well, such as Ken Marcus & Suze Randall. Suze also has a daughter, Holly Randall, whose work is well sought after.

    If the photographer isn't on that list, when it comes to Playboy, they are just another photographer in an ocean of people with cameras. ANYONE can get you into Playboy if you have the look they want at that time. If getting into Playboy is what you want, you could just as easily take polaroids of yourself & send them to Playboy or go to one of their casting calls (better option). Playboy usually prefers amateur film photos such as polaroids or their own photos because then they know that the photos haven't been re-touched. The minute they see the photos are from a professional photographer they will be more leary of them, expecting that you don't actually look like the photo.

    If all you want are pretty photos though, there are many great photographers in Texas with good reputations... particularly Johnny Crosslin (although he sometimes doesn't edit out things I would), Jose Luis, Rolando Gomez. You can also simply search google for boudoir photos (look for bridal boudoir since its easy to see photographer reviews that way), or pin-up photographers.
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