NCPS Photo Studio Etiquette for working with models
'Getting up close while keeping your distance'

• Do have in mind what props and poses you would like to use - arrive prepared.
• Do introduce yourself to the model and explain the props and poses and what results you wish to achieve with them.
• Do check that the model will be comfortable with your ideas. Please be ready to change your plans to suit your model.
• Do give your model confidence by clear direction and instruction, both to them and to your lighting assistants.
• Do remain focused on directing your photo shoot, be sociable but avoid socialising.
• Do ensure that your model has their required refreshment and comfort breaks.
• Do remember to thank your model at the end of your session.
• Do only make further contact with any model via the committee member in charge of the studio, who will liaise with the member who introduced the model to the club.
• Do remember to provide some prints for the model by way of further thanks for their time and co-operation. (See the New Rules below.)

STUDIO ORGANISATION
New Rules

1. The red covered ring binder, labelled NCPS STUDIO, now contains all guidelines and handy information concerning studio work. Studio photographers should ensure that they read the 'etiquette' document and sign the accompanying sheet, adjacent to their typed name, as proof that they are aware of the etiquette document's contents. The binder will be placed by the signing in book at each studio session.
2. Besides contributing £1 per model studio used and a minimum of one print per model photographed, digital photographers are required to provide each model photographed with a CD of all photographs taken. This allows the model to view all available images and to make their own selection for prints they might wish to have made elsewhere.
3. Lighting organisation - for the remainder of this season it has been decided that, as from 24th March 2005, the club lights will be lodged at the Hanson Centre at the meeting prior to the studio session. This will mean that the lights are not available for rent on the following weekend. This will mean that the lights are available for the set up of the studio session, promptly, as soon as the Centre is unlocked on the studio night.