At times you might come across a chat room or message board and the phrase TFP comes up. You may question the meaning, shrug it off or just ignore it. If you do a generic search for TFP, you’ll most likely come up with Total Factory Productivity (the ratio of aggregate output (e.g., GDP) to aggregate inputs) More then likely, this isn’t the message board you’re in so time to dig a bit deeper.
The traditional term for TFP in photography circles is “Trade for Print” however it also has been used in Trade for Photos or several other acronyms with similar meanings. For this, a team which usually is a photographer and a model (or models) work together on a photography project. Everyone works for free, but they all receive the images to use in their portfolios. At times, this does include Hair stylists, makeup artists but would depend on the project.
