A photo shoot asks two strangers to trust each other. The model trusts that the photographer is who he says he is. The photographer trusts that the model is who she says she is, is old enough, and agreed to what the images will be used for. Most of that trust rests on a profile picture and a sheet of paper.
This is what one portfolio shoot looks like when both sides are verified, from the first message to the day someone asks for the release.
No money changes hands. The photographer gets images for his portfolio, the model gets images for hers, and both want to use them freely. It is the most common kind of shoot and the one with the least paperwork.
Shoots editorial and portraits. Books new faces through casting posts, and wants a release he can actually produce when a client asks.
Building her book. Wants to know who she is meeting, what she is agreeing to, and that she will actually receive the images.
Marco and Lena are illustrative. The workflow is real.
Marco is booking a portfolio shoot with a model he found through a casting post. He sends his verified ProntoID profile with the booking message, so the first thing she learns about him can be checked.
Lena has never met Marco. Before she agrees to a location and a time, she can confirm he is a real, verified person and not a borrowed name on a new account.
Marco invites Lena to his roster and labels her role as model. If she already has a verified ProntoID, accepting takes seconds. If not, she verifies directly with ProntoID, and her passport never passes through Marco.
Lena accepts on her own terms. She can see what the roster holds about her (a display name, a role, a verification status) and she can leave it whenever she likes.
Before the first frame, Marco picks Lena and his assistant from the roster and shows a QR code. The scope is set in plain terms: portfolio and own website, worldwide, three years, withdrawal permitted for future use.
Lena scans the code with her own phone, reads the terms in plain sentences, and signs with her verified identity. A copy lands in her own account at the moment she signs, not in an email Marco promises to send later.
On a time-for-prints shoot, the images are Lena's payment. Marco sends the selects through ProntoDeliver rather than a public link that could be forwarded anywhere.
Lena unlocks the files with her face. Only she can open them, and Marco has a record that the images she was owed were delivered, and when.
When Marco publishes, he tags Lena in the set. The tag points to a verified person, not a typed handle that anyone could claim.
Lena approves the tag from her own account, so her name is attached to the work only with her say-so. The credit is hers to show in her own portfolio.
An agency licensing one of the images asks for the release. Marco opens it in his account: who signed, when, on what terms, with the wording Lena actually saw. The scope and signature are hashed, so anyone can check the record has not changed.
If Lena later decides she no longer wants the images used, she can withdraw. Because the release granted withdrawal, new use stops from that date, and the request and its outcome are recorded for both of them.
The release is signed before anyone leaves, by the person in the images, with their identity and age checked independently rather than written down by them. When a client, an agency or a platform asks for it, you open it and send it.
You never hold anyone’s passport, so you have nothing to secure and nothing to leak. And the model’s own copy is often what turns a hesitant signature into a quick one.
You can check a photographer is a real, verified person before you agree to a location. You read the terms on your own phone, in plain sentences, and the signed copy is yours, in your account, for good.
The images you were promised arrive in a way only you can open. Your name goes on published work only when you approve the tag. And if you change your mind, there is a way to say so that is recorded, not ignored.
Verification makes a shoot easier to trust and easier to prove. It is not a guarantee about anybody’s behaviour, and we would rather say so here than have you find out later.
No. Verifying with ProntoID, joining a photographer's roster, signing a release and receiving delivered images are free for the model. The photographer pays for the services they use.
Yes. A photographer with a verified ProntoID can share proof that they are who they say they are, and, once ProntoRoster for Collaborators launches, a history of sealed releases with other verified people. Neither side has to hand over documents to the other to get there.
It depends on the terms both sides agreed in the release. If withdrawal was granted, new use stops from the date of withdrawal. If it was not, the request is still recorded and sent to the photographer. Either way, images already published stay published: no digital release can reach backwards, and we do not claim otherwise.
Yes, with stricter rules. Where a release covers sexually explicit content, each signer's age is checked against a verified record before they can sign, the term cannot be indefinite, and the platforms must be named. What records the producer must keep beyond that depends on jurisdiction and is a question for their own counsel.
No. ProntoID and Brooks & Keitt Sàrl are not law firms. ProntoID records what was agreed, by whom, and when, and makes it easy to produce later. Whether the terms are right for your work and your jurisdiction is a question for your own counsel.
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ProntoID and Brooks & Keitt Sàrl are not law firms and do not provide legal advice. The scenario on this page is illustrative. Release terms should be reviewed by your own counsel.