The January 2005 issue of Popular Photography is already on the stands —
The major articles in Popular Photography focus on :
Canon's EOS 1 Ds Mark II 16.6 16.6 Mega Pixels Digital SLR Camera Review
PhotoShop - How to perform the top five fixes in PhotoShop – Easy
Hottest New Cameras and Lens in 2005 - Review – Comparison
Selling your photos on line may seem like an intriguing opportunity for photographers and models until you being to research all that is involved - designing and setting up a secured web site, processing orders, obtaining a merchant account to process on line credit card orders, etc.
Well, luckily we found a service that provides all the back end services required - including credit card processing - letting the photographer or model concentrate on creating and marketing their works on line.
You set your pricing and the service handles the e-commerce, billing, high quality photo printing, shipping, and customer service for every order placed on line.
You set the cost for each print, for example, if you sell a 8x10 print for $10.00 (the service would subtract $3.19 retail price per print and $1.50 which is 15% of the print price to cover administrative expenses).
So your net profit is $5.13 per 8x10 print ($10.00-$3.19-$1.50).
The service bills the customer for shipping and handling, so these costs do not affect your net profit and your profits will be paid via Direct Deposit to your Bank Account within 30 days after the end of each month.
Now you can turn those charity fashion shows, conventions, club shows or other social events into a money making opportunity, just collect e-mail address from participate at the event and send them a note when the photos are on line.
People love mementos photos - so include yourself and as many different individuals as you can in each photo. You can also work with the event organizers to share the profits from the photos.
People, especially parents, like to keep momentos of events. And this is an easy way to do it.
This is a great opportunity for a model/photographer partnership - great exposure, too.
And the service includes a wide range of photographic print sizes from 4x6 up to 20 x30, and including special items like calendars, photo cards, photo mugs, etc.
There are three annual gallery plans that include setup, storage space and additional discounts from list price.
| Pro Gallery | Disk Storage | Annual Fee | Discount from List Price |
| PRO20 | 250Mb | $99.00 | 20% off list price |
| PRO30 | 500Mb | $149.00 | 30% off list price |
| PRO40 | 1Gb - 3Gb for a limited time only! | $199.00 | 40% off list price |
Models and photographers looking to increase their web site exposure should obtain a free listing on the WNY Models.com Top100 site. This is a popular modeling site for males and female models, as well as, photographers and includes listing for most of the major modeling sites on the net.
The site also hosts an active model and photographer forum with close to 300 members. The forum provides a Modeling Jobs board offering listings for paid modeling shoots or for models seeking paid photo assignments, a Photography Discussion forum to chat with other members about photographic techniques, Classified Ads for used photography equipment and General Discussion area and Help forum.
Advice on model safety — Model Safety Tips with information on Pre-session Arrangements, Session Protocols and Other Safety Tip is provided, as well as,advise from the Federal Trade Commission on how to avoid Modeling Scams Rip-OFF
Rounding out the site are model and photographer portfolio pages which are free.
This site is geared toward the North Eastern U.S. so only models and photographers in that area are listed. The areas covered include
Portfolios of North East Models;
Central NY and New York City Models; Western New York, Buffalo, Rochester Models;Models from Ontario, Canada and rounding out the portfolio pages are Photographers mainly from Albany, Buffalo and the Syracuse, New York area.
With a SiFi body measuring 34D 25 32, full lips and long flowing light brown hair, Models Port month of the month hails from Ontario, Canada.
Metista is a very outgoing individual who loves to be in front of the camera and collaborates with the photographer in creating unique and phenomenal images. Her modeling experience includes: fashion, swimwear, glamour, artistic nudity, lingerie and bikini modeling.
Please drop by the Models Port to view her portfolio and the other model portfolios. Models Port is a free site and offers free models/photographers portfolios, fashion, beauty and makeup tips and photographic resources.
We just created a great new banner above and would like to recognize all of the great models that are featured. The following is a link to each individual model's portfolio on Models Port. The model listings are from left to right.
Tera Cooley Modeling Assignments: Artistic Nude, Bikini, Body Paint, Editorial, Fashion, Fitness, Lingerie, Promotional, Spokesmodel, Swimwear, Thong, Under Water Model - Coordinator, Hair, Makeup Artist.
Laura Leanne Modeling Assignments: Glamour, Boudoir, Retro Pin Up, Vogue style Fashion Model, Spokes Model.
Weili Modeling Assignments: Artistic Nude, Bikini, Casual, Fashion, Lingerie, Print, Runway, Sport, Swimwear Model.
Natasha Kay Modeling Assignments: Bikini, Commercial, Editorial, Fashion, Lingerie, Swimwear, Thong Model.
Lauren V Modeling Assignments: Artstic nude, Bikini, Commercial, Lingerie model.
Metista Modeling Assignments: Artstic nude, Bikini, Fashion, Figure, Glamour, Lingerie, Swimwear Model.
An another photo of Natasha Kay