Just try to maintain a positive additude, and don't come off as scared that everyone's gonna screw you over. Hoot is right about talking to an attorney, too. If you're really serious about getting your own contract, by all means, do so. TFP is automatically split rights, in my opinion, and you both need to decide whether the images are for sale or purely for portfolio use.
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If you decide you'd rather come up with a profits sharing deal, where you both have full rights to use the images however you want as long as profits are split 50/50, or some other such agreement, then that's fine, too However, it is unreasonable to expect the same rights for a shoot for which you're being paid, because the photographer is paying for the rights to your image in paying you for the shoot. You own the rights to them, and that's all there is to it. If you are paying for the shoot, those are your pictures. The best thing to do is to thoroughly read the contract, and if there's something in there you don't like, discuss it. However, if you don't have a name for yourself, things are different, and you'll lose alot of work. The key difference being, though, that not many people are going to turn Dita down for saying she has her own release. Alot of major models who self-rep instead of working through agencies, Dita Von Teese, for example, have their own contract that the provide the photographer when they shoot.
It makes you look insecure, which will hurt you in the long run. However, coming off as being unwilling to trust anyone is not the best additude to have. I'm sorry, we all have, and there's alot of bad people in this industry on both sides. It's obvious you are pretty new to modeling, and have probably had some bad experiences. The contract allows time and would only effect them if they didnt agree on more time or never contacted me again I know what a release is, i just need one to go fromĪnd if they are serious about giving me the pictures then why wouldnt they sign such a contract unless they planned on playing games and screwing me over Whether or not they both agree to these terms, however, is a different story altogether. The photographer provides the medium, the model provides the subject, and so both are equally allowed to present whatever documents they want to protect themselves and their work. Models and photographers work together to create the image as a team. Models do not release images so it makes no sense for the model to provide such a document.