short flirt with dating headshots

though I was aware of dating sites and people posting pictures on their profiles, I never thought about it in terms of how it related to the photography business. a few years back, somebody contacted me for pictures that he wanted for a dating profile but it was a one-off. fast forward to 2008 when I saw an ad from dating headshots website looking for professional photographers in washington dc to expand their network. it was a process to get approved. once approved you needed to go to their website and fill out a photographer's profile allowing prospects to view your work and schedule a shoot if they chose to work with you. a few months passed. by the time I got to georgetown I got a frantic call from a client that dating headshots referred who was trying to schedule a shoot. we missed each other for a while. it was only after I left georgetown that we finally connected to do the shoot. the shoot is pretty straightforward. 30 mn and you take 100 pictures that you upload to their servers with no touch up.  fairly easy uh! wait until you have to rename all the files to the customer id. at the time, I didn't have a bulk rename software. not even sure any existed at the time. that tedious process alone deserved the money that they paid you. I got the check about 2 weeks later. for someone who was used to get paid on the spot, that was quite a long wait. you can see more dating headshots and personal portraits here.