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Not being creepy is only number two...\"\n};\nvar layoutProps = {\n  _frontmatter: _frontmatter\n};\nvar MDXLayout = \"wrapper\";\nreturn function MDXContent(_ref) {\n  var components = _ref.components,\n      props = _objectWithoutProperties(_ref, [\"components\"]);\n\n  return mdx(MDXLayout, _extends({}, layoutProps, props, {\n    components: components,\n    mdxType: \"MDXLayout\"\n  }), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"Rule 1: Don\\u2019t kill your models\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"I\\u2019ve brought this up whenever I\\u2019ve been rigging light stands. And every assistant and model I\\u2019ve brought it up with has agreed that it\\u2019s the most important rule\\u2026 even more important than Rule 2, which is the first that comes to mind because you can get caught with this even if you are a professional photographer with honorable intentions.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"See, if you aren\\u2019t careful with your light stands, flashes, wiring, etc. you could easily hurt your model. I think of this whenever I\\u2019ve seen a lightstand go wobbly. You could be wandering around in the dark and your model could fall. Especially when you are talking about a full-time model, she may not have much in terms of insurance coverage, so if she ends up getting sick or injured, that\\u2019s going to add up to a lot of money on her part.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"And, by extension, if you drop a light on her and give her a good bruise, she may have to cancel the shoot she\\u2019s got the next day and it\\u2019ll be all your fault.\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"Rule 2: Don\\u2019t be creepy\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"This is hard for photographers. Either they really ARE creepy (and generally can\\u2019t hide it), or they aren\\u2019t creepy. It\\u2019s hard being a non-creepy photographer, because you want to say \\u201CHey, models! You can shoot with me! I\\u2019m not creepy!\\u201D But you know that if you say that, they\\u2019ll assume that you are really creepy and trying not to be creepy.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"If I didn\\u2019t have to bring gender into this, I wouldn\\u2019t, but generally female photographers are considered to be, by default, non-creepy. I\\u2019m sure if you researched this, you\\u2019d find cases where female photographer did the most horrible of crimes to a model, but it\\u2019s just the way things are.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"A shoot goes very smoothly when a model is comfortable around you, you can make small talk with each other, you keep your hands off the model without permission, and are otherwise a polite and affable person.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"One time, a model was struggling with her wardrobe change and I looked at her and said \\u201CIs there any way I can help you without being creepy?\\u201D\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"Rule 3: The greatest sin is to make your model look ugly\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"I once took a closely cropped abstract shot of a scantily clad model. I figured that she might get concerned about being zoomed in upon, so later on, I showed her the shot and asked her if she was OK with the image. 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