A photographer reached out to me through social media asking me to shoot with him sometime. Although I’d love to have a shoot for myself, does this seem sketchy? He’s taken photos for friends i know and they said he seemed cool and laid back. They also mentioned that he took a while to send them their pictures and wouldn’t respond before sending them. Anyway, just wanted to hear some thoughts on this.
Being skilled and experienced doesn’t preclude being a creep. I can’t imagine a professional with a network of models just making unsolicited offers to randoms on IG offering a free boudoir shoot … and the OP’s update with the photographer’s subsequent messages confirms my suspicion.
I’m not the most emotionally intelligent out there, but even I could see the bright red flags in that one. There is no legitimate reason to try and offer a young woman, model or not, a bottle of wine and a ‘free’ photo session in exchange for getting nearly naked in front of you and likely try to pressure her into more for his ‘generosity.’
It’s just so sickening to me.
You do you, but plenty of photographers do it that way and do legit work.
But trying to bunch the creeps with real photographers just doing regular TFP tells a world about you, peace out.