Reddit mentions of Dancers After Dark

If you're making a request for someone in your area, it generally helps to say what area you're in.

Some tips on how to get started:

1. First - nail the fundamentals of photography. Learn about exposure, light, and composition, basic post-processing. You don't need a model to learn that, and if you try to shoot a model without really knowing that stuff you'll waste time and money. Practice on objects, practice by doing self portraiture, practice on a friend (they don't need to be nude).
   
2. Have some idea of what it is you like and you're trying to accomplish. Go to museums. Study the masters. Buy some photo books full of art that you like in a style you might want to mimic, and look at the photos critically (a personal favorite. Or if you're looking for something with true nudist flavor.). Flickr/Instagram can be good resources as well. Look at the photos and ask what's going on with the lighting? Where was the photographer standing and what lens might they have been using? What would I say to a model to tell her to do this pose?
   
3. Find a workshop or shootout in your area - search meetup or eventbrite. They're usually run as group shoots (multiple photographers shooting a model at once). These vary in quality (to say the least), but if you find a good one you'll learn a lot and get some shots to start a portfolio with. The worst ones are just a dozen guys snapping away at a hot naked girl. But the best ones will have organizers that can teach about lighting and posing and give you some opportunity to experiment and try things, and are really worthwhile.
   
4. Hire a model yourself. As in, be prepared to pay them money for their time, talent and skill. An experienced model is worth their weight in gold if you're new at this. They'll know poses, they'll know angles, they'll bring their own ideas to the table and you'll learn a lot from them in the process. Friends and models willing to work for free are amateurs. If you yourself are an amateur as well, you'll just get amateur results. Once you're really experienced to the point that you can comfortably guide and post a model who has no idea what they're doing, then you can try pinching pennies on amateurs. Though honestly even then, the professionals are still worth it.
   
   When you talk to a model, be able to articulate a rough vision for the kinds of shots you're hoping to get. There are sub-genres of nude photography - nude in nature, figure lighting, erotica, boudoir/glamour, nude portraiture, etc. Stay within the bounds of whatever style the model agreed to.
   
   Some other things that I shouldn't have to say but will anyway. Don't touch the model. If the model says she's uncomfortable with something, don't ask her to do it again. Don't ask the model out, don't ask her for sex. Keep your clothes on when you're working with her. Do not, under any circumstances, take a photo of someone without their consent, especially if they're nude. Do not put that photo online in any way without the consent of the subject, especially if they're nude.
   
   I think nudist photography is a particularly difficult genre to do well, and probably isn't where you want to start out for that reason. It's actually closer to candid portraiture than art nudes - you might want to practice by taking photos at parties if you hope to one day shoot nudists. The ideal nudist photograph should have a storytelling quality to it - it should be a portrait of the subject and give a sense of who they are. It should give a sense about nudism itself, both what it is to the subject and just the lifestyle more generally. For that it needs context, either in the form of a story around the photo or within the photo itself.
   
   Good luck.