{"id":2380,"date":"2017-04-29T07:34:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T07:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indimodels.com\/AU\/?page_id=2380"},"modified":"2019-08-23T14:55:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T06:55:55","slug":"tfp-time-for-print-the-reality-in-very-simple-terms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/indimodels.com\/AU\/tfp-time-for-print-the-reality-in-very-simple-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"TFP – ‘Time for Print’ – The Reality – In VERY SIMPLE terms!"},"content":{"rendered":"

TFP Tog \/ Stylist \/ H & MUA \/ Model \/ Designer etc – Please Consider – last updated 2018-02-10 @ 0600<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n

This article is designed to address the ‘TFP’ concept \/ mentality that exists, so very\u00a0prevalently, in the Arts and Entertainment Industry.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

1) CAUTION<\/span> – <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>do not be fooled by Photographers calling TFP Shoots Test Shoots<\/strong>\u00a0now (As TFP has a bad name<\/span><\/strong>). A TEST SHOOT of a model is the photographer testing a Model for Commercial \/ Editorial work. No one gets free images in a Test Shoot, No one is allowed to use these images for Personal \/ Commercial Purposes etc<\/strong> – It’s \u00a0like a ‘trial shift’ to see how you work.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Otherwise it is simply a TFP shoot!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2)<\/strong> Photographers with registered business names for credibility and Facebook pages (Also for credibility) constantly posting for models to do free shoots (calling it collaborations and \/ or using the excuse of being a student ETC)<\/strong> are good examples of “T<\/strong><\/span>hanks F<\/strong><\/span>or P<\/strong><\/span>erve”<\/span> photography – strongly suggest you stay away from these.<\/strong><\/span> Real photography students will only do 2 or 3 shoots each of landscape or portraiture or nudes or implied nudes or lingerie as that is all that is required demonstrate their skills in that area academically. There is no need to shoot nudes every week for collaborations!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

3)\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong>Castings for<\/span><\/span> TFP asking for FRESH FACES – Your TFP Face \/ Look already of NO VALUE to the very people you helped build a Port for!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

4)<\/strong> <\/span>If an TFP seeking<\/strong> individual<\/span> \/ New Business<\/span> \/ Tight Budget<\/span> etc approach yourselves for a TFP and, lets say,\u00a0get the ‘TFP’ service\u00a0they want<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

5)<\/strong> <\/span>Then they go and seek another ‘team’ to get another genre done<\/strong> for TFP\u00a0(FREE) for the Benefit of ‘For your Port’ \/ ‘For your Experience’ \/ ‘For your Exposure’.<\/p>\n

6)<\/strong> <\/span>The process repeats itself<\/strong>\u00a0– Ad Infinitum (Forever)\u00a0– new Tog, New HMUA, New Stylist etc ‘For Their Port’ or ‘It will be Good Experience’ or “For Exposure’ or what ever else.<\/p>\n

7) <\/span><\/strong>So – when your Port \/ Experience is Ready 6 months or\u00a02 years later – there WILL BE\u00a0a new (FRESH Unseen Faces, HMUA, Togs Sought after<\/strong> – re Models etc) crop of Artist’s behind you doing it for experience \/ port \/ cheaper etc whilst your (OVER EXPOSED, TFP Face<\/strong> – re Models) is now trying to get paid paid work, unsuccessfully. The TFP culture you helped promote is the same one killing your business endeavours now (other than getting paid to take your clothes<\/strong> off – re Models).<\/p>\n

8) <\/span>Models \/ HMUA Especially:<\/strong>\u00a0Successful\u00a0Models \/ HMUA<\/strong> \u00a0do NOT<\/span> take up opportunities\u00a0for lower paid campaigns\u00a0(for exposure \/ images etc<\/strong>) as it dilutes there uniqueness and branding. The SAME effect as TFP does at the ‘starting out’ level of modelling!<\/p>\n

9) <\/span><\/strong>If you saw “Gigi Hadid”, for example, promoting everything and anything do you think big brands would approach \/ use her? I don’t think so as\u00a0there would be no Freshness \/ Uniqueness \/ Attention Drawing \u00a0face to make people stop and take note of\u00a0the Campaign<\/strong>. It would be a waste of time to use her! This is exactly what happens to TFP faces<\/strong>! They are of NO VALUE to any Serious Campaign, so having to constantly push their Pages \/ Faces for even Collaborations (i.e. TFP Shoots).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whilst the photographers they worked with for TFP are calling for ‘Fresh Faces, that we have not worked with before’ – snubbing the TFP ‘Models’ the Togs have worked with before!\u00a0<\/strong>Thats how little TFP Models are valued!<\/p>\n

10) <\/span>Modelling TFP doing for it experience?<\/strong> Bollocks<\/strong>, video yourself modelling in your own room, review it critically, redo and keep going and it will achieve a MORE than 100 TFP shoots and save you hours in travel, makeup and clothes and time! Then cast for Editorials and Campaigns, with a still fresh and unique face, working with published and established professionals to launch your face and personal branding. Similarly with HMUA,\u00a0<\/strong>do it on your friends (different skin types and ethnicity) and family for free to practice and they deserve it the most and then similarly\u00a0cast for Editorials and Campaigns, with a still fresh and unique style and skill set ready to be selected and exposed through publications.<\/p>\n

11) <\/span>Why wouldn’t BIG COMPANY \/ BRAND Pty Ltd, <\/strong>or any one else, not do the SAME THING<\/strong> and call for TFP Tog, HMUA and STYLIST etc\u00a0<\/strong>and say it will be good for their Port to say they have worked for \/ on a Project with BIG COMPANY \/ BRAND Pty Ltd?<\/span> Where would ALL of us Artists be then?<\/strong><\/p>\n

12)<\/strong> <\/span>H&MUA \/ Stylist \/ Designer \/ Model<\/span> prepared to work for FREE for TFP Photographers<\/span><\/strong> BUT Expect PROFESSIONAL<\/span> Photographers \/ HMUA \/ DESIGNERS \/ STYLISTS who could take them and their work to new levels to Pay them<\/span>?<\/strong> HELLO!! Should be the other way around!<\/span><\/p>\n

13) <\/span>In REALITY, TFP Seekers, \u00a0ARE PAYING REAL MONEY for Materials for their products, Printing Business cards, Web Site Designs & Hosting, Rent, Gas, Electricity, Phone, Fuel, Mechanic, Plumber, Newspaper Adverts, Internet Connection, Mobile Plans , Rent, Car Repairs, Mortgage, Rates etc ALL ON THEIR TIGHT BUDGET<\/strong> … but NOT for ARTISTS<\/strong> … because they can always get them for FREE TFP … CRYING ‘TIGHT BUDGET’ and ‘I will Pay you for my next Gig’ .. and saying ‘Think of the Exposure’<\/span> … and If they don’t get it Free again .. They WILL just find ANOTHER Tog, HMUA, Stylists etc and sell the same DUD DEAL to them as the next team will also do it for the same reasons as the first team did<\/span> … and so on ..<\/p>\n

14)<\/strong> <\/span>PLEASE VIEW BOTH<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0VIDEO<\/strong><\/span> – WHY other Industries DO NOT OFFER,\u00a0the\u00a0Equivalent, \u00a0of TFP<\/strong> –
\n* AU Version –\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cameralla\/videos\/1327900990581419\/<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\n* USA Version –\u00a0<\/span>http:\/\/www.photographybay.com\/2015\/11\/05\/watch-what-happens-when-you-ask-non-creative-professionals-to-work-for-free\/
\n*<\/span><\/a>\u00a0TEXTing \/ Messenger etc version – Experienced Every Day – literally –\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/paulwilsonimages\/videos\/1345454408867711\/?pnref=story<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

15) <\/span>If you offer your services for free to people that would\u00a0other wise pay for your services then it is is taking food out of your mouth and that of others in the industry that would normally get paid for their Job!<\/strong>
\nIf you want to practice – use people that are not interested in modelling or that would never look for \/ pay (for your service)\u00a0and not because of lack of funds<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0(but because they are NOT interested in those services) … Otherwise you will be making a name as free photographer \/ free hmua \/ free stylist \/ amateur etc and NOT Making MONEY \/ LIVING from your art – but from a Second Job. Using this this second job to survive and undermining (by doing TFP) people trying to make a living from their art – is just LOW!<\/b><\/p>\n

16) <\/span><\/strong>Doing it for a Hobby<\/strong>\u00a0\/ Amateur \/ Portfolio \/ Experience\u00a0<\/strong>– Then Point 14) again applies<\/strong><\/p>\n

17) <\/span><\/strong><\/span>Bottom line why would ANYONE PAY ‘you’ when they know you do TFP<\/strong> and why shouldn’t, I as a potential client of yours, look for another that will do it for FREE for ‘Experience’ \/ ‘Portfolio’<\/strong> etc.<\/p>\n

18) <\/span><\/strong><\/span>Why would a client (another artist \/ industry outsider) want to ‘PAY’ you (as a Tog \/ HMUA \/ Stylist \/ Model) when they know you do TFP for their Competitors?<\/strong><\/p>\n

19)<\/span> <\/span>CAUTION<\/span><\/span> –\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>When you want to ‘TEST’ Lights \/ Lenses \/ Camera \/ Idea – Why do you ‘Require a Model & in Lingerie \/ Nude’<\/strong> ? Test with you relatives and friends etc – otherwise it’s just another excuse for a TFP (T<\/strong>hanks F<\/strong>or P<\/strong>erve<\/em>) shoot!<\/span> A good \/ typical example I saw the other day<\/strong><\/p>\n