just one last post before i call it quits at the studio and head home for the weekend. i have been trying to add bits of photography tips that might stray away from your obvious ones and post tips that would have helped me a great deal over the last few years.
this new posting is about how to manage your model releases. maybe not the most glamorous posting topics but a very necessary one. I shoot a lot of people, every week and like to keep track of it just in case i need to publish an image, have a client interested in licensing the image or if the image is going to a stock agency, they of coarse want the digital version of the release.
i am glad to say i have a new system that works very well for me. when i am on a shoot, either a stock shoot, editorial shoot or a commercial assignment and i have an entire group of releases to manage, i lay them out on the cement and photograph each release, standing over it and cropping in the camera as tight as possible. i usually just shoot it in jpg format so that i immediately have a digital and hard copy when i leave the shoot. once at the studio, i crop it 8.5x11 at 150, run auto contrast on it, which tightens up the blacks and whites, save it as a jpg and pdf and i am done. so much better than scanning. if the shoot has a lot of models/people, i will also photograph them holding the release, so that i can always match them up the name weeks later when all is forgotten.
also as you can see below, i have a nice book with all my on location releases, 3 hole punched and ready to go to the file. as you can see from the pile, things can catch up on you pretty fast.
just some ideas and wish i had a system like this a few years ago, would have saved me loads of time.
if your looking for a good release, i suggest this one: adult release(over 18 years of age)
minor release(17 and under, need parents signature)
this new posting is about how to manage your model releases. maybe not the most glamorous posting topics but a very necessary one. I shoot a lot of people, every week and like to keep track of it just in case i need to publish an image, have a client interested in licensing the image or if the image is going to a stock agency, they of coarse want the digital version of the release.
i am glad to say i have a new system that works very well for me. when i am on a shoot, either a stock shoot, editorial shoot or a commercial assignment and i have an entire group of releases to manage, i lay them out on the cement and photograph each release, standing over it and cropping in the camera as tight as possible. i usually just shoot it in jpg format so that i immediately have a digital and hard copy when i leave the shoot. once at the studio, i crop it 8.5x11 at 150, run auto contrast on it, which tightens up the blacks and whites, save it as a jpg and pdf and i am done. so much better than scanning. if the shoot has a lot of models/people, i will also photograph them holding the release, so that i can always match them up the name weeks later when all is forgotten.
also as you can see below, i have a nice book with all my on location releases, 3 hole punched and ready to go to the file. as you can see from the pile, things can catch up on you pretty fast.
just some ideas and wish i had a system like this a few years ago, would have saved me loads of time.
if your looking for a good release, i suggest this one: adult release(over 18 years of age)
minor release(17 and under, need parents signature)
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Amy T Schubert:
As always ... thanks for being so generous.
I LOVE your blog.
-A
(08.30.08 @ 04:16 PM)
Shannon:
Sweet ... thanks so much for sharing! I had to laugh because my piles of papers look just your pile of model releases, I'm the most terrible filer there is and I procrastinate ... who likes filing anyways??
(09.08.08 @ 03:51 PM)
Steven Vona:
If you shoot a model several times, do you get a new release each time you shoot?
(09.29.08 @ 03:23 PM)
jay:
steven - for me it has depending on the agency and the models. if i have a solid relationship with the models and i shoot them a lot, then it has not been too much of an issue for my one agency. for my other agency, they want a new release for each shoot, no questions asked. always better to have a fresh one each shoot.
(10.01.08 @ 09:26 PM)