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Get some social skills. This is some real shit, just hear me out here guys.
Learn how to talk to girls. I am the fattest ugliest motherfucker on /p/ and I can get girls to shoot full nude in front of my camera, and you guys can't. I'm almost 40, I've got young 20-somethings in my inbox wanting to work with me. Wanna know why? I have social skills, believe it or not, I may be an abrasive asshole here with full blown Stage 108 Autism (probably am, whatever) but in the real world people want to work with me because I have previous work and I'm not afraid to ask.
Example, I'm wanting to work with mirrors lately. You know who worked with mirrors? Helmut Newton. I have a lady in my inbox and we are discussing some concepts and I brought up mirrors "I'd love to work with mirrors, hang on" and hit them with this shot by Newton. "I'd like to try a variation on this, on black and white film, you don't have to take your clothes off I just want to work with mirrors for a set, this would look really nice with a white dress it will contrast well on (insert brand of film here)" It's that easy. The younger crowds these days call it a "mood"
On some of these TFP pages you will have girls who want to break into the industry and need to show those agencies a body of work before they get signed on.
Another one, and this is crucial, set yourself apart from the sea of dudes in their inbox trying to use their camera to bang them. My secret weapon is an Ikelite housing, I do underwater portraits. I have literally met women at the Florida springs who saw me walking around with this shit not intending to shoot any people, just underwater landscapes, and they see it and want to work with me. It's huge, it's cantankerous and totally ridiculous, but it works and it ain't stupid if it works. These are people who did not find me online, they found me in the real world.
I know I'm coming off as a total prick right now and that's fine but, fuck it one more frame
