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Paid shoot or TFP?

Decide this before you write a word of the casting. A paid shoot is simple: you set a fee, the model turns up and works to your brief, and you owe her nothing but the money and good manners. Stills work on the platform typically pays £100 to several hundred pounds per shoot, with lingerie at the lower end and full nude higher.

TFP, time for prints, is a swap. Nobody is paid and the model gets edited images. It is fair when both portfolios gain. It stops being fair at the levels experienced models charge for, which in practice means topless and above. Our TFP photography guide covers how many images to promise and when to deliver them.

On Climaxx Media, a photographer account that has passed its ID check can run one live TFP casting without a paid plan. The Photographer plan at £9.99 a month adds direct messaging, 150 full model profiles a month and three live castings, TFP or paid. Pro at £19.99 removes the limits. The photographer plans are listed in full on the membership page.

What we check before you see model profiles

Two things. Your photo ID, and evidence that you are a photographer: three portfolio images we have approved, or a link to a portfolio site we have looked at. Until both are done you can build your own listing but you cannot open model profiles or message anyone. Some photographers find that irritating. It is there so a model can trust who is looking at her profile.

Writing a casting a photographic model will answer

Models read a lot of vague briefs. The ones that get replies give the date, the town, the hours, and whether it is a studio, a hotel or your home. They name the level, using the words models use: lingerie, implied, topless, art nude. If those terms are not second nature, read modelling levels explained first. They state the fee, or for TFP the number of edited images and the delivery date. They say who else will be in the room.

Then they say where the pictures will end up. A portfolio and Instagram shoot is a different ask from a set you plan to sell, and a model will price them differently. Every casting is read by a person here before it goes live, so a brief that hides the level or the usage does not get published.

Models by genre

The public directory is split by the kind of work. Start with glamour models, nude models, female models, male models, mature models or fetish models. If you are new to a genre, our photographer guides to glamour photography and nude photography cover how those shoots are planned and run.

The release, the ID and the copyright

You own the copyright in pictures you take. That does not give you the right to publish someone's nude image wherever you like. The release does that, so it needs to say what was shot, where it can appear and what the model received. Sign it before the shoot starts. If the work is adult content you intend to sell, use a release written for it: our model release forms guide explains the difference.

Look at the model's photo ID yourself on the day. We check ID before any profile goes live, but we do not share documents, and your own record is the one that counts if a publisher asks.

Shooting for a brand or a production rather than a portfolio? The producer route on hire a model may suit you better, and the UK model directory page explains what members can search.