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The vast majority of photographers famous or otherwise who started with portraiture started by photographing people they knew or werefamily/friends/acquaintances and sort of figured somethings with people who it's relatively casual, etc. to shoot with where it's no big deal and youcan learn a great deal in situations like that. Technically in public you can photograph whoever you want, but I'm not really sure I would call thatportraiture more of street photography maybe street portraiture. But as far as setting shoots up personally for my first real series of portraiture "TheBacci's Crew" (www.thebacciscrew.com) they're my friends, but for my current main project "The Sneakerheads" (www.thesneakerheads.com) Ihave my post here on NT and have a questionnaire and find subjects I feel fit my project and then offer them a framed print (the first part of my seriesChicago #1 (a set of 6) I just got the framed printed done and some have picked them up already, if you're in Chicago #1, and you don't have yours andyou're reading this let me know...) as a compensation which is reasonably common in art photography that you give your subject a print, sometimes framed,sometimes not... I know other kids who are more open to just having random people as subject for various other projects where the specific person isunimportant who post on like. craigslist I know professors who've paid subjects anything from $20 to a couple $100. A lot of start up commercialphotographers do TFP which is time for prints whether that be physical prints or digital they give their model or subject copies of the prints for their time.
