Create Now Company

For the model photography community

The Photographer Hub.

A growing Create Now Company resource for photographer perspectives, industry transparency, and more informed creative partnerships.

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Survey of the Month

Why your perspective matters.

Conversations about modeling rates often happen privately—through individual bookings, messages, and experiences within separate markets. This makes it difficult for photographers and models to understand what the broader community is experiencing.

Create Now Company is gathering anonymous photographer feedback to understand what photographers currently perceive as standard rates, how those rates affect the number of models they can realistically hire, and what feels financially workable across different modeling genres.

Your participation can help educate traveling models about the financial realities photographers experience while planning shoots. It also gives photographers a meaningful voice in a conversation that directly affects how often they are able to create.

Responses will be combined anonymously into a monthly report designed to encourage greater industry transparency and more informed conversations between photographers and models.

  • What photographers currently perceive as standard rates
  • How rates affect realistic monthly booking volume
  • What feels financially workable across different genres
  • What could support healthier, more sustainable creative partnerships

This survey is not intended to tell models what they should charge or photographers what they should pay. Its purpose is to reveal experiences, identify patterns, and help both sides better understand one another.

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Survey of the Month

Traveling Model Rates & Photographer Affordability

There are no right or wrong answers. We are looking for candid responses based on what you personally see, experience, and can realistically afford when working with traveling models. Every completed survey helps create a more accurate picture of the industry—one that can educate models, represent photographers’ experiences, and bring greater transparency to conversations about rates and creative accessibility.

Your responses are anonymous
No account is required
The survey takes approximately 5–8 minutes
Results are shared only in combined, anonymous form

Rate definition used throughout

USD per hour for the model’s time.

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1

Photographer Context

Tell us about your experience.

Which genres do you currently photograph?

Select all that apply.

Enter hours.

2

What Photographers See

Share your view of the current market.

What hourly rate do you currently perceive as standard for traveling models?

What hourly rate do you currently perceive as standard for traveling models?

USD per hour for the model’s time. Complete all three genres or select “Not sure.”

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Enter hours.

3

Booking Volume & Affordability

Tell us what is financially realistic.

USD.

What hourly rate would make it realistic for you to hire your ideal number of models each month?

What hourly rate would make it realistic for you to hire your ideal number of models each month?

USD per hour for the model’s time. Complete all three genres or select “Not sure.”

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What most limits you from booking more traveling models?

Select all that apply.

4

A Healthier Industry

Help define what sustainable collaboration could look like.

What hourly rate feels fair and sustainable for both the photographer and traveling model?

What hourly rate feels fair and sustainable for both the photographer and traveling model?

USD per hour for the model’s time. Complete all three genres or select “Not sure.”

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What qualities make a higher model rate feel worthwhile?

Select all that apply.

Please do not include names, contact details, or information that identifies another person in optional responses.

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