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James, not a problem, other colleages have also contacted me to reuse or adapt the language. Glad to be able to help.

To comment on "consideration" -- Scott makes a good point about ensuring that there is consideration given. Please note that the language on my license document says explicitly "In exchange for a signed Model Release, the Photographer provides the following to the Model" - which hopefully helps prevent misunderstanding or ambiguity as to what the consideration is. Certainly the images have value, but I don't feel the need to assign a dollar value to them - it can be easily determined from my publicly available pricing list. But, of course, this is no legal advice, this is what I do myself, and you should determine your own needs. I do a full disclosure to the model about stock photography, how it works, and what's allowed and not allowed to do with images. It avoids surprises later when a model finds herself on a training brochure that used one of my stock images. Actually her boss found her, and she was not surprised at all, because she know the images could end up in places like that.

There was also a point made about paying a model instead of hiring an amateur model. My opinion on this is "it depends" - if your objective is to learn how to get comfortable with people you don't know at all and be able to direct them (i.e., senior, wedding, family photography) then working with a newbie provides more learnings than working wiht a pro model, as the pro model will look and act nothing like a senior or a less-than-perfect and somewhat-insecure client. If your objective is to create commercial images for stock purposes, having a pro model will get you more expressions, more value out of his or her time in front of the camera - but you'd be surprised how good images of "regular people" sell - so there is something to be said for working with the neigbhor or someone from your church. If your goal is to do model portfolios, or shoot beautiful women for your own enjoyment, what you want is just the best images, and money is not much of an issue, then hiring a good model, a MUA, a wardrobe designer and a hair stylist will give you all the ingredients for a professional result. The photographer may do little with all this talent if s/he is not capable of create well composed, well lit images, however. But at least it would be his fault, not the talent!

The OP indicated that his goal is to be able to develop Photoshop skin processing skills, so that doesn't require a professional model. There are some beautiful newbie models out there that will be happy to get a decent headshot in exchange for a model release.

Finally, if you truly don't need a commercial model release, you can use one that doesn't give you the right to make commercial use of the images - this may be needed if the model objects to providing a full release and you're doing this for practice. You can probably google your way into one of those releases.

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