The images in your core modeling portfolio should not be overly artistic or crafted shots. Often, models use the wrong read more images to get the assignment.
Overly stylized scenes detract from the subject and are not useful in getting you work. You are not casting to get a job for a photographer or set builder, this is all about you! Simple, yet attractive backgrounds showing appealing and well composed images, with you as the main focus, are what get work.
Dramatic lighting with strong shadowing may look great, but is also ineffective. What casting agents can’t see makes them suspicious.
Equally unproductive are high fashion shots. If you have done a feature in Vogue by all means use the tear sheet, but commissioning high fashion shots is a mistake. Casting agents don’t want to see what a great job the stylists did, they want to see the real you. Unpublished high fashion shots come off as an amateur approach no matter how beautiful the shot may be.
What you want in your core modeling portfolio are crisp high impact images, properly lit and composed that show you off. Let photographers and stylists focus on their own portfolios—your modeling portfolio is all about you!
By Laurens Antoine, premiere photographer for FHM and more
Monday, March 9, 2009
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