LARRY ALLEN SHELTON OF LARRY ALLEN PHOTOGRAPHY OR LUMINOSTIX ARTWERKS DID A TFCD SHOOT FOR A MODEL ON 12/26/2009. THE AGREEMENT WAS TRADE FOR TIME. THE WORK WAS EXCEPTIONAL.
THE MODEL LIKED THE SHOOT AND DECIDED SHE WOULD PAY HIM FOR HIS SERVICES NEXT TIME. ON 01/2010, THE SHOOT WAS TO TAKE PLACE AT A OPEN LOCATION. HE ALSO WAS TO ARRANGE A MAKE UP ARTIST HOWEVER THE MAKE UP ARTIST DID NOT SHOW UP (OR HE NEVER CALLED ONE). THE SHOOT WENT ON BECAUSE HE REASSURED THAT HE COULD EDIT THE MAKEUP ON TO THE PHOTOS. HE WAS PAID $150.
ON THE PREVIOUS SHOOT, HE ACQUIRED A LIKING FOR THE MODEL MAYBE EVEN AN INFATUATION AND WHEN IT BECAME CLEAR TO HIM THAT HE WAS NOT GOING TO BE ROMANTICALLY INVOLVED WITH THE MODEL HE BECAME IRATE. AFTER PAYMENT FOR THE PHOTOS HE AGREED TO RETURN THE EDITS WITH SATISFACTORY WORK ON 02/06/10. tHE MODEL DID NOT HEAR FROM HIM IN ABOUT TWELVE DAYS SINCE THE DATE OF THE SHOOT. ON 02/06/10
NOT A CALL, NOT A TEXT, NOT AN EMAIL.
THE MODEL'S AGENT DID EXPOSE L.A.S ON A MODELING SITE ABOUT HIM TAKING THE MODEL'S DECISION NOT TO SLEEP WITH HIM PERSONALLY, AND WITH HASTE HE RESPONDED, AGAIN IRATE, UNPROFESSIONAL AND DISRESPECTFUL. HE REPLIED WITH MALICIOUS RUMORS THAT THE MODEL SOLICITED SEX AND WAS SOME SORT OF "PROSTITUTE" BECAUSE SHE CONFIDED THAT SHE WAS IN FACT A PROFESSIONAL EXOTIC DANCER.
oN 02/07/2010, HE SENT FOUR PHOTOS SOME TOUCHED WITH PHOTO SHOP AND SOME UNTOUCHED WITH THE WORD "HERE" IN THE EMAIL. HE SMEARED EDIT MAKE-UP ON THE MODEL'S FACE, AND SOME HE DID NOT TOUH KNOWING THAT THEY WER ENOT FINISHED. THE MODEL'S AGENT CONTACTED HIM AND INFORMED THAT THE PHOTOS WERE NOT DONE WELL. HE THEN CLEARED THE MAKE-UP BUT LEFT THE BODY UNTOUCHED.
ALL THE MODEL ASKED WAS TO SMOOTH SKIN AND FLATTEN THE STOMACH, SOMETHING HE DID IN THE FREE TRADE SHOOT.
AFTER RESEARCH, HE IS A MIDDLE SCHOOL HISTORY TEACHER TEACHING IN PALMDALE CA, NOT A PHOTOGRAPHER. NO ONE SIGNED CONTRACTS. AND HE DOES NOT DELETE THE MODELS PHOTOS.
LARRY ALLEN SHELTON DOES NOT SHOW VERSATILITY IN HIS WORK ALL OF HIS MODELS ARE SHOT IN THE SAME LOCATIONS WITH THE SAME POSES. AND HE WILL TAKE YOUR MONEY AND NOT PRODUCE IF HE DOESN'T GET HIS WAY.
BUYER BEWARE.