so this month I edited/released a soft/clean shot set for a model in canada...
regular clothed to nude style, clean shots and no dirty spreads or anything...
however after giving the model access to the site she is now pissed at how one picture is displayed...
one picture that was a full body shot, I had cropped into a full frontal of just her hips and her goodies... and minus the "model" tag on it, you cant even tell who it is...
well she immediately has a shit fit and we have been playing email tag...
NOW... within the release she signed this clause exists... which ALL OTHER sites of our nature have due to issues like this:
Without limiting the foregoing, SGI may edit, distort, change or modify the Media as SGI sees fit, and Model understands that SGI has no obligation to use the Media. Model hereby waives the right to inspect or approve the finished product(s) or version(s) of the Media, editorial copy, advertising copy, or any other printed or visual matter that may be used in conjunction with (or comprise) the Media, or the use to which the Media may be applied.
Model understands that Media depicting the Model may be produced or displayed at different times and places, in public or private, either clothed, semi-clothed, semi-nude, or nude, and at such times when the Model may or may not be engaged in a sexual act. Model gives SGI the consent to use Model's nude image in connection with the rights granted in this Personal Release. Model considers themselves a paid model and is not troubled or distressed by having Media of Model taken in either a clothed, semi-clothed, semi-nude or nude state, and whether or not engaged in a sexual act. Model's participation in the creation of the Media is purely voluntary and Model understands that Model's continued participation in any modeling session indicates Model's total acceptance of the modeling assignment and complete lack of any objection to any acts that Model might engage in while performing in this modeling assignment.
well of course she didnt read this...
but anyway here's the email tag...
message1:
----- Original Message -----
From: "rayne"
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:04 AM
Subject: i have a problem
I am Rayne from the site, and looking through it just now i notice that one of the pictures has been totally cropped down to just a shot of my Vag.
1. Its a fucking horrible picture
2. If i wanted to be blatantly flaunting my vagina on the internet i would be spreading lip, but that wont ever happen.
3. the picture as a whole is ruined, its a bad shot, and IF i was personally even to allow or had been able to approove of it, it could of at least been photo shopped for a little touch up!
Please, take down that one picture, i dont care, im extremly angered by it.
Sure i might be a bit misunderstood by this considering half the girls on this site have cocks on their faces, but i have my limits, and i think ive made it clear as to what they are in front of a camera, and i dont appreciate my vagina being cropped out of what was an entire picture!
My reply:
heya... please re-read the release that you signed...
(insert release stated above)
we have used the set you had submitted and that we had paid for in the manner we selected with our site... we are not able to re-edit pictures that models had discrepencies with after they have submitted the set and the payment has been made...
sorry but we are unable to make any "special arrangements" once the set has been paid for and gone live on the site...
thanks again and if you have any questions please let us know
-sp/cc/bmb-
Message 2:
Yes yes i am aware of all that, but come on. That was a total fucking low blow, whoever does editing should have some commen sence, considering my sets i think its pretty clear as to what my limits are, and what i blatantly try not to get in the pictures and then i suddenly see a terrible zoomed in picture of a horrible shot of my fucking vag! its insulting, it makes your organization look sketchy. and youve absolutly degraded my morals and limits as a nude model, and now i feel fucking 100% self concious about myself. Obviously im going to have to be more careful as to what pictures i sell, and im sure its nothing to you but youve definitly lost a model and a good word.
My reply
hello, you were the one that had sent the pictures to us... if you did not want something like that to come out of it, we are sorry but as the release is clear, we have the final right to display any/all pictures as we see fit, where we see fit... be it a far off picture of you online, or a closeup of various parts of you mixed in with an advertisement in any adult publication that we are a part of...
all sites like ours do the same thing and they have the same "editing" section in their releases... if we did not have that we would never be done working, and also lose paid content, to correct any "issues" that any models or photographers would have a problem with...
you and your photographer sent them to us, and this is what we paid you for...
we are sorry that you are not 100% happy with how this is displayed... but our customers pay for this kind of content and this is how we display it...
in all retrospect we could have used another models bodyparts and put them in place of your set or even photoshopped other things that would really "discredit you" otherwise...
however as we dont have the time, patience or desire to discredit you in such a manner, we edited the set as shown and thats how the set will stay displayed...
we are sorry if you disagree and are no longer interested in working with us in the future... but as this is what you had sent us, what we display is our call and we are not able to change/edit/delete/move/remove pictures on the whim of a model or photographer... especially as they had sent them to us in the first place...
so again we are sorry if you are not happy with how we have edited your set, but considering all of the other content within the site, it is not a filthy picture by anymeans and we are not able to change/modify/move/remove any content we have paid you for otherwise as that was part of the release you had signed...
we never got the paperwork for the other set, so if you would not like to release your other set to us, please let us know and we will delete it from our systems and notify your photographer as well...
thanks again and if you have any questions please let us know
-sp/cc/bmb-
ugh
if you dont like the pictures, dont send them to us... its not like I put a flickering tounge coming out of her snatch or made an Octopussy out of it or anything... I just cropped it, edited and posted it... like the 234902345 other pictures on the site... end of fucking story...
it'd be one thing if i shot her and she didnt want that kind of stuff shot... but SHE SENT THE SET TO ME... its not my fault..
plus this isnt the first model (or largest fanbase) ive pissed off... so whatever...
Im just aggrivated...
no wonder i hate chicks...
