How to get nude models?

You could always discuss prices with young women who stand around on street corners wearing very little.

There are several threads in the appropriate section of the People Photography archives which directly address your question.

You might try to start with clothed models. If people like the way you work and like the way they look in your photos they may then trust you with more revealing shots. They may even be be willing to exchange time for prints.

I agree with Robert. Getting people, especially women, to pose nude for you is likely to be a challenge unless you have demonstrated your ability to beautifully render them clothed. Talk to some people who you would like to see photographed. Get to know them. In time I guess you will know. Other route is to hire someone...but remember, for these models, time is money.

Get an account on onemodelplace.com or even modelmayhem.com

Photograph women clothed first, its a lot easier and you will see if you have any ability to interact with models. Good nude models are extremely expensive if you can even find one. It takes more than just a naked woman to produce a good nude. You need to be a master of posing and lighting.

Ask peopel to take of ther cloth, start with you girl / boy/ ore any friend you have, and tell them what you want to do , if you dont feel comfortabel, dont do it again, ore do it until you dont care any more.

www.micbach.dk......."photography workshops in Spain"

One way to get some good nudes in your portfolio, and to get some ideas of the etiquite involved in working with a nude model, is to take some kind of class.

A surprising number of photographers offer such classes, and you can also often find them at community colleges, community centers, or independent photography schools. Local photography clubs occasionally do group shoots (especially in places like Florida or southern California). These are all good ways to work with an experienced model in a way that spreads the cost out a bit and gets you some help from more experienced photographers.

disclaimer: I'm biased, I teach photography classes, so I may tend to overstate their usefulness. I don't teach any classes that would be good for portfolit building, though. But our school does. I won't name the school unless the moderator says it's OK.

Well this might surprise many of you but believe it or not, I have taken some very remarkable compositions of girls in chat rooms (mostly based in Eastern Europe).

I won't say which one but it's free. And you can learn to charm and get some interesting poses during conversations with them. A few girls have actually taken instruction from me and modelled for me remotely by this method and entirely for free. Since they have been unaware of my captions the results look very natural and not staged.

For example I might suggest that they rest a hand on their knee in a certain way, hold their head back in a particular way or throw their hair up in the air to give it volume and movement and they often oblige not realising my intent. Some require no instruction at all since it seems they have had some prior modelling experience from somewhere other than that site or aspire to be models.

The downside is that you are relying on a remote web cam with less than acceptable resolution the lighting is more often than not very poor and the background somewhat lacking. Also the communication aspect is often extremely difficult you have to be patient not pushy. If they tire of you they can kick you if they feel the urge too and that could ruin any future prospect of any future potential co-operation. It can days sometimes weeks to get the ideal caption by which time the model might be close to leaving.

I would like to share some of those captions with you here at some point but I am not entirely sure if they would qualify from a remote webcam keyboard screen dump point of view.

Captions I have taken have been carefully cropped and recorded in a Word.doc format.

What I would like to do at some point is to somehow convert them into *.jpg or similar format for more convenient viewing.

It is just a suggestion and one that has worked for me all be it crudely by Photo.net standards.

But isn?t photography or capturing a point in time at times about making the best use of what you?ve got at your disposal?

Maximising the minimum in difficult and trying situations can sometimes make that ideal and unique shot all the more special especially when it is unplanned and unexpected.