What's up, everyone? Welcome back to the Daily P5. It's episode 125 for Tuesday September 4th 2018 It's 9 20 p.m. Here on the East Coast, and I just know that I'm going to lose so many friends and probably a bunch of followers That happen to stumble across this episode because I have to talk about a topic that I think is just Absolutely wrong and it has to deal with models specifically the way that Society and the professional photography and modeling world classify models right?
up until now you've only heard of pretty much two categories of modeling either models or plus size models and I've had a big problem with that term plus size modeling for years because I don't believe in it I think that there is beauty in everyone regardless of if there are size two or a size 14 that has never bothered me But this evening as I am scrolling I stumble across a gem of an article by model scouts comm that's now called plus size male modeling and they go into more specifically categorize these men as Braun male models instead of calling them plus size male models the males are now referred to as Braun male models the females get the generic stereotype of being plus size models and So again, I'll tell you guys a backstory and again This is this is why I know I'm gonna get hammered by so many of my photography friends that Probably are gonna listen to this and unfriend me and the truth is I don't I don't care I just I don't care because I'm just gonna speak my mind You know about this topic it's freaking 2018 and everybody needs to wake the hell up to this because it is just in my opinion Wrong to classify models period if you decide you want to make a career or a hobby out of modeling and you go Learn the poses and you you know get the hair and the makeup done and you hire a photographer or work with a photographer And you decide you want to build a portfolio Nobody should have the right to say you can't be a model or you're not a model because of your freaking size Right do you guys get it? There's something fundamentally wrong with the industry that does that and categorizes people you've all seen the regular models Walk the runway or in magazines and the memes that say someone give this this girl a cheeseburger because you can count every one of her ribs Nobody's ever called them anorexic models They've decided that's the standard in the modeling industry and it's wrong and there are dozens and dozens of Cases and incidents and stories that you can google and read for the next week About how some of these some of these girls that one of the model just headed in their mind that they had to be a size zero and weigh You know a hundred pounds or less with you know two percent body fat and they starve themselves to the point where they put themselves in the hospital Or even freaking died from malnutrition those stories are out there Right, but again the photography in the modeling community keeps latching on to these stereotypes of plus size and now brawn Male models and to me, it's just wrong. It's a thousand percent wrong on every level. You can't categorize people now listen I get it if you're a you know swimsuit company and you know you create a certain swim site suit for a certain size Yeah, I get it.
You're only gonna want to hire a model that can fit into that swimsuit male or female I don't have a problem with that, but as a standard in the industry When someone wants to break into modeling that they're going to get classified is just to me It's just it's horribly horribly wrong. I can remember years ago going to a professional group modeling shoot and FYI here's where I'm gonna lose a lot of photography friends I can remember as we were all standing around getting our briefing before we got to go pick the models We wanted to shoot with and there were probably 20 or 25 models and I could just look and see you know The beady little salivating eyes of some of these photographers eyeing up all the hot chicks who they were gonna go for because For whatever reason they only want to shoot certain models that look certain ways and is that they're right to do that? Of course it is it's they're right, you know in some of these cases They paid to be at these modeling shoots, but for me, that's that's not what it's about I don't look at photography and I don't look at people as being specific to one category of a photograph that I'm going to take and as I'm standing there in our little briefing I'm sitting there looking at this one young lady that was kind of standing off to the side and you know again if I want to be Industry correct, you know, she was a brand-new model Again industry correct terminology here She was a plus size model and I could just look at her and I knew that not one person was going to go shoot with her that day And you know what I was right because when we got done with the morning briefing everybody all the photographers literally Galloped over to all the size two size fours high heels short skirt models and I walked over to this girl And I'm like hey Let's go shoot and I could see the look in her eyes when she was like wow you really want to shoot with me over everyone else I'm like, yep, you're the first one I want to shoot Let's go and I think I spent an hour with her shooting her and you know, I thought the pictures were great I gave them to her she loved them. She used them on her Facebook She used them on her model mayhem page and you know that was that but that's the culture That the photography in the modeling world puts on people is that you can only shoot you know Ridiculously good-looking male and female chiseled You know 28 waist men size 2 female and it's ridiculous every every person has a beautiful quality to them and if there's any models Listening this I would urge you to walk away from those models that try to give you the run around in the BS as to Why they're unavailable to shoot with you or why their price is hundreds of dollars higher than it is for someone else?
It's because they're trying to drive you away because they don't want to shoot you because they don't think you're good looking enough They don't you know, they're not going to get anything visually out of it and because yes again I know photographers that are pigs and this is again where all the photographers are going to say wow this guy's an asshole I don't care. It's the truth. I can just look on Facebook and see it I know photographers that sit there and that's all they do is post pictures of of these models and the comments in the Descriptions of the picture like right you guys again again I'm not saying that my way is the correct way, but I'm just saying when I post pictures of people, you know It will be a very generic or I'll put some kind of a quote beside it to enhance You know the the picture But there are some photographers that will go out of their way to make the most ridiculous almost Playboy commentary about how hot this model was to shoot with and she's so sexy and so steamy and again in the modeling and photographer world those are red flags Because again, I know a lot of photographers that have done a lot of models wrong and in today's world of social media That's all it takes is one model to screenshot that interaction with a photographer of saying You know bring something sexy for me to wear for the shoot and you're so hot and you know bring something that enhances You know your breasts or your backside or whatever I mean come on that this is you know again We're crossing the line of professional and I know those people that do that and I know those people that are so tunnel Visioned on what their perception of a model is and I would say I guarantee I could take you know any And again, I even hate to say the word but just for the sake of the podcast I'm gonna say cuz I don't know how else to say it any plus or size model up against any Traditional size 2 model and I will take good looking pictures of that model You know that will make people say wow those are great pictures. That's a beautiful male or female model And I've shot a lot of male models I haven't shot any of the new bran male models yet, but again, I'm not opposed to it my camera isn't prejudiced To size or to color or any of that crap.
It's out there But this this article really has me heated right now because again I just I think it's wrong and I think it's doing an injustice to you know thousands and thousands of people that You know might want to try modeling at some point because again, you know people are looking at Facebook They're looking at Instagram, you know, they're half of my Professional boudoir shoots I've done have been women that have come to me and said I've wanted to do this for the last 20 years And I've always been afraid to you know, nothing should be in the way of people Achieving whatever goal they want to do and if that's starting off as a model But you're too afraid and intimidated to because you think you don't have the right size for it I urge you to go do it go find someone that will do it for you and help you create that portfolio that you want because Nobody should ever have to live a life of not being You know, fearful of getting in front of a camera and having professional pictures taken because they don't like the way they look or You know, they're afraid of the ridicule that they're gonna get and what business do you have standing in front of a camera? You're fat. That's stupid Seriously, don't pay any attention to what the industry standards are go by what your goals and what your dreams and your motivation is You have to we only get one shot at this thing called life, you know, live a life with no regrets Go do things that make you uncomfortable Because on the other side of fear is everything that you want every emotion that you want lives on the other side of fear It's a fact and now I'm done and now I'm gonna go eat something because I'm hungry and I'm tired of talking about this Subject so 4 1 2 7 0 1 4 3 2 3. Let me know your commentary and feedback on this one.
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