What kind of effort goes into creating a set?

Same as Scotty, shooting one set usually takes a couple hours on average.
And if I'm not incredibly familiar with the photographer and his work, I like to meet before the shoot but that's not always a possibility.....so I at least swap a few messages back and forth so we are on the same page before the shoot.
Sometimes I bring one friend, or my husband. But any more people than that seems to distract the photographer and myself more than help.

Days, never. Not for the actual shooting! I think even Rydell's epic shoot with Sureality (with wigs, blood, guns, costumes, props, a set, etc) was done in 12 hours. But as mentioned above, planning can always take time.

For me, the longest parts of shoots are usually spent prepping. Doing hair, choosing clothes, waiting for the sun to set... The actual posing and picture-taking hovers around 1-1.5 hours.

I completely agree, the actual planning of the set always takes alot longer than the shooting for me.

I actually did my set over three days! But that's because it was self shot and it takes much longer to get decent pictures than if you have an awesome photographer setting up each frame. But I shot for about two hours each day, at the same time, so the lighting stayed somewhat consistent. Do not recommend!



It seems like models have to do a lot of work on the front end (prepping, scouting locations, outfits, getting body ready, etc) and photogs have to do lot of work afterward (picking images, photoshopping, submitting).

( Hi, my name is captain obvious.)

Hopefuls Group

You should try to find someone in this group, if you can't get a staff photog in the area . Just be a little more careful and picky with who you choose, and always bring along a friend when you're working with a photog you don't know very well!

You could also try your luck on model mayhem.



edit: also the hopefuls group maddigan listed