Bad experience

Every time I scroll through my image archive, I get annoyed when I see the name of this model, so I have never published any of these.

Essentially, she is near the top of the "most unprofessional behavior list".

Initially, we discussed the concept, and she said she didn’t want anything where you could see her private parts. I looked at her portfolio and said I’m okay with it if we can do something like this, this, and that from her page, and she accepted.

And to be clear, I 100% accept whatever personal boundaries a model may have, and I’m not one to push those. But I shoot nude images, and if the model doesn’t feel comfortable modeling nude, there is no point in shooting.

A couple of days later, I picked her up and drove for two hours, so he had about three hours to shoot before sunset.

She wore tight jeans, so I asked if she could jump into something that would not leave marks while driving up there. She professed they were stretch fabric, so they wouldn’t leave marks (spoiler alert, they were not, and neither was her bra).

Then she wanted to do make-up in a cave (she spent about 75 min doing that, much of the time still with the jeans on.

The clock was ticking, now with only about 90 min to sunset.

Then she was cold, having sat still in a cave instead of in the sun, as I suggested.

She knew where we were going; by the way, she had been there a week before. It was a comfortable 21 degrees centigrade with little wind until just before sunset.

So she spent about 20 minutes warming up, walking around in a blanket (with panties and a bra underneath).

Finally getting nude, Still with noticeable marks from her jeans and bra), she would only let me shoot her from the side.

I pointed to our conversation involving booty shots but no genitals, and she stated she trusted the other photographers (implying she didn’t trust me).

We managed to shoot for about 15 minutes (Img 1-4)

With 45 minutes left, she was cold again and had to warm up (I brought a blanket).

With 30 minutes of sunlight left, I had to approach her and tell her I did not have a single image and that we needed to push through for a short time.

I walked down and asked her to follow me as soon as possible.

Then she disappeared, only to show up 10 min before the sun dipped into the ocean, and we shot the last image.

I was annoyed.

We packed up and drove for an hour. Then, I dropped her off at her boyfriend's and returned home.

That was 6-7 hours wasted

€400 in model fees for 20-30 minutes of work, mostly implied,

€150 in transport expenses.

A week later, talking to a colleague about the experience, he showed me a couple of series with her from Hegre that were full-frontal with little left to the imagination.

I’ve also spoken to several people who have had similar experiences with her (some much worse than mine).

Disclaimer: I shot these in 2016.

I haven’t interacted with her or know what she’s doing now (I blocked her everywhere); she may have improved her professionalism (I hope so) or stopped modeling (I also hope so).

And I don’t see the point in naming her.

The only moral of the story is that if you talk to a model and anything feels off, listen to that voice, regardless of how attractive the model may be.
I didn’t.

To this day, when someone only wants to shoot something implied, I’m almost certainly declining the shoot.