If you are testing or do both, if you are testing, you usually have a set amount of time. They are usually a lot four to five hours depending on the photographer and they are giving you that time because they know in their experience that is about as long as it takes for other models. If you are working a job, the same thing. There is a set amount of time and you are paid for a certain set amount of time and if it goes over that, your agency will usually negotiate for extra time unless you are paid a whole fee for no matter how long it took. It depends what your agency negotiated for you. Usually the photographer knows how long approximately it is going to take with the day and age that we are in with digital photography, it is a whole different world out there. When I started a job, getting one shot could take four hours because they had to keep testing it, they used to take Polaroid to test the light and they would look at it and then they had to show it to the client. Now, they take one digital shot, they know we can fix all of this afterwards with by touching it up and they can email the actual ad to the client somewhere else then is this okay, I mean, it is a totally different world so I can go in and shoot jobs better an hour. I have gone all the way to New York and traveled three hours and then I go in to the studio and they say put on this and I get my hair and makeup done and I stand there and they take six shots and they say okay, were done. So—
Unfortunately.
Yes, it is unfortunately, right. It is unfortunate in the sense that if you are getting paid by the hour, it is only an hour. But I think they just use a kind of getting wise now and they know, okay, this is what the job is for and it is digital so it will not take that long so they are kind of adjusting the rates so people can still make a decent amount of money.
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