The acronyms TFCD (Time For CD) or TFP (Time For Print) refer to a photoshoot method where none of the participants pay money. Each person (photographers, models, stylists, makeup artists...) contributes their equipment and knowledge to build a team.
It is the ideal method for people starting out in this world. This way, experience is gained at almost no financial cost. Among many other things, it serves so that:

• a novice photographer gains knowledge about their equipment, composition, and learns to work with assisting staff.
• models take their first steps in photographic posing and start creating a book to present to agencies.
• makeup artists/stylists/hairdressers practice outside their training school.

Working with people you don't know is a very important plus to gain experience for the future, but it is not without certain risks. We have all heard or read at some point about cases of abuse by someone (sexual innuendos or abuse, distribution or recording of videos with intimate images of a model...) and it is true that these things happen, although they are isolated cases and easily detectable if you take a few precautions:

• Inform yourself beforehand about the person(s) you are going to work with. If in doubt, look for another option; you will gain experience over time and can take certain risks later.
• Never go alone to your first tfCD session with people you don't know.
• Never accept anyone "tagging along" who has not been previously mentioned as a participant in the photoshoot.
• Try to have prior contact (in person or via video call) with the people you are going to work with.
• Carefully review the portfolios/social networks of the other participants. If someone only has a private Instagram account or does not have a public portfolio (visible to anyone), do not accept the collaboration; that person is hiding something in 9 out of 10 cases.
• Agree in advance on the type of photos to be taken. It is true that if things flow you can improvise, but this agreement must be accepted by all parties.

It's not silly! In a globalized world where it is increasingly easy to find and distribute graphic material, the rights of each participant in the photoshoot must be preserved. The tfCD session contract is generally drafted by the photographer (although there are also models who have their own contract template) specifying very clearly the date, place, personal details of all participants, and the styles of photography that will be carried out. The clauses of the contract must specify very clearly the use that each party can give to the photographic material obtained. In the case of tfCD sessions, it must be reflected that none of the parties can obtain any financial benefit from the photos (do not even accept them being uploaded to stock libraries!).

The assignment of rights (copyright by the photographer and image rights by the model) must be exclusively for private use, whether for social networks or promotional books (portfolios). If any of the participants wants to make money from your photos, tell them to look for a professional team and pay for their services. The contract also usually specifies the number of photos to be delivered (both original straight-from-camera and edited by the photographer), and I want to make it clear that you later have the right to see all the photos taken (even if in a small size and with a watermark). If the photographer tells you that they will only show/send you a part of the material, do not hesitate and look for another photographer (in my case, I deliver all photos in original size and give freedom for each participant to edit them to their liking).

Finally, I want to state that a tfCD session is not "free photos"... it can be just as professional as any other and, as I wrote at the beginning, it is the best way to find out if you are going to like this exciting world. In the future, you will have plenty of time to work at another level.