"For $500, that's the least I'd expect. But seriously, what are we talking about here? Artist's models usually make more like $10-20 an hour." A nude female model willing to sit in front of an SLR camera in Utah is kinda rare... the few who do (and are, err, 'photogenic' enough, to put it politely) command a pretty hefty premium around here, at least in my limited experience (I saw a client arrange for and pay $300 to get her to do a 1-hour shoot. You are right about the $500 figure in a way... the higher prices were her bids if I wanted to photograph anything pornographic. Being married, I figured that since I prefer my testicles attached and working, I politely turned her down.) Models willing to sit for a painting and such would be less I believe, because the final medium doesn't reproduce the model in complete and total accuracy, nor would you want it to in many cases. /P