I wanted to share with everyone a pretty serious and not so good situation I was in today. I think it's especially important for the many new women on this site looking to be an SG.
So as some of you may know this summer is when I started becoming way more active on here. I've been taking my modeling career more seriously and worked with a handful of photographers.
However, today I had a shoot with a photographer that had contacted me through model mayhem. Now I know this website can sometimes be shady with "photographers" who are essentially just creeps with a camera, but my cockiness thinking I already had enough experience to be able to weed out the bad seeds was thrown in my face today.
I was told that for a two hour shoot I would be paid $100 to do some sensual and soft shots in various lingerie that he would provide me with. He told me to bring along my own as well. (which was a complete waste of time because we didn't use any of it)
Anyway, let me get to the point. I got to the location and we started shooting. Everything seemed to be going pretty great. Until I changed into this third outfit that was a bit too revealing for the type of shoot we were doing. When I came out in the outfit he proceeded to grab my hips and tell me how great I looked. Inside I felt extremely creeped out and concerned because of the tone in his voice. But I was all alone and wasn't sure what to do. SO I kept going. He then asked me if I wanted some wine and began complimenting my chest and such. It was all pretty weird, but I didn't want to act weird because I was afraid if he was suspicious of me being skeptical he would get violent.
Long story short, cutting out all the weird comments and other things he did. I finished up the shoot with him, quickly changed, grabbed the money, and said a quick good bye in which he insisted on hugging me.
As soon as I left the room I didn't even bother waiting for the elevator I just ran down 8 flights of creepy stairs.
Ladies, I strongly suggest that if you get an offer such as this one, DO NOT TAKE IT. Nothing happened to me luckily, but I was majorly freaked out and naive for thinking that such an offer was legitimate.I got too confident in my judgment of photographers since I've already worked with a few. Don't make the same mistake as I did. I feel silly because normally my judgement is great, but shit happens.
People are shitty.
As a side note, I want to apologize for not blogging all week, but I post on my instagram pretty much daily.
My instagram name is now: Lavish_Suicide
I will update you lovelies on more stuff soon. xoxox
So as some of you may know this summer is when I started becoming way more active on here. I've been taking my modeling career more seriously and worked with a handful of photographers.
However, today I had a shoot with a photographer that had contacted me through model mayhem. Now I know this website can sometimes be shady with "photographers" who are essentially just creeps with a camera, but my cockiness thinking I already had enough experience to be able to weed out the bad seeds was thrown in my face today.
I was told that for a two hour shoot I would be paid $100 to do some sensual and soft shots in various lingerie that he would provide me with. He told me to bring along my own as well. (which was a complete waste of time because we didn't use any of it)
Anyway, let me get to the point. I got to the location and we started shooting. Everything seemed to be going pretty great. Until I changed into this third outfit that was a bit too revealing for the type of shoot we were doing. When I came out in the outfit he proceeded to grab my hips and tell me how great I looked. Inside I felt extremely creeped out and concerned because of the tone in his voice. But I was all alone and wasn't sure what to do. SO I kept going. He then asked me if I wanted some wine and began complimenting my chest and such. It was all pretty weird, but I didn't want to act weird because I was afraid if he was suspicious of me being skeptical he would get violent.
Long story short, cutting out all the weird comments and other things he did. I finished up the shoot with him, quickly changed, grabbed the money, and said a quick good bye in which he insisted on hugging me.
As soon as I left the room I didn't even bother waiting for the elevator I just ran down 8 flights of creepy stairs.
Ladies, I strongly suggest that if you get an offer such as this one, DO NOT TAKE IT. Nothing happened to me luckily, but I was majorly freaked out and naive for thinking that such an offer was legitimate.I got too confident in my judgment of photographers since I've already worked with a few. Don't make the same mistake as I did. I feel silly because normally my judgement is great, but shit happens.
People are shitty.
As a side note, I want to apologize for not blogging all week, but I post on my instagram pretty much daily.
My instagram name is now: Lavish_Suicide
I will update you lovelies on more stuff soon. xoxox
VIEW 7 of 7 COMMENTS
paullow:
Lavish,the ONLY THING THAT CAME OUT OF THIS IS THAT YOU ARE OK,AND NOTHING HAPPENED TO YOU.. It sucks that you couldn't have a background check done on this guy.. PLEASE TAKE CARE AND B SAFE!!PAUL LOW
smashbase:
Damn, that sucks that you had a run in with a creepy photographer. I'm a photographer and also use Model Mayhem. You should always check references for shoots like that and don't be afraid to bring an escort with you. I hate that there are creepy photographers out there because they give us all a bad name. A photographer should NEVER touch the model without asking first and definitely not in the way that it sounds like he touched you. Don't lose hope though - we're not all creeps! 
Just be smart and check references if you're unsure about a photographer. This is a bit of a generalization, but most of the photographers that are creeps, are also really shitty photographers. So if the photog's portfolio sucks, check references.
Just be smart and check references if you're unsure about a photographer. This is a bit of a generalization, but most of the photographers that are creeps, are also really shitty photographers. So if the photog's portfolio sucks, check references.