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Originally Posted by pam
I don't ever, EVER publish the photos from a test shoot, no matter how good they may be.
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I dunno; this seems limiting. Your time and your photogs time is worth some money, so you're already out that. Even a $100 in cash as an advance (you pay more if they are published) would at least allow you to recoup some of your costs if the set is good and you find a buyer for it.
We used to regularly swap nude (cheesecake back in the day) shoots for headshots and comps. Most of the models coming in were aspiring starlets, and they couldn't afford the $50 sitting fee let alone the replication cost for the comp sheets. About 90% of the time we couldn't use their sets, but that one in ten gem more than paid for our time, film, and darkroom costs. If a model's set sold, we usually called her back in for paid set. IOW, it worked out for everyone.