Do I Need a Modeling Portfolio to Start a Modeling Career?
March 27th, 2010 | Author: Brian Edward
Every year thousands of girls spend money on modeling portfolios in an attempt to launch a modeling career and to secure a contract with a model agent. However, there are very good reasons why having a model portfolio before approaching a model agent for the first time may actually damage your chances of signing on with an agent.
Instead, model agents prefer prospective models to provide them with a number of snapshots. Whilst these should be clear and in focus there is absolutely no need for them to be shot by a professional photographer; holiday snaps or similar that clearly show both face and body shape are perfectly acceptable for all legitimate agents.
Most prospective models who pay for a portfolio do so by paying one photographer to shoot them in a number of outfits and with different hair and make up. In this way they attempt to recreate the looks that a professional working model might have in her portfolio. However, the portfolios of professional models are shot by many, many different photographers, all of them having very unique and contrasting styles. Paying one photographer to shoot a whole portfolio will not look in any way similar to a professional’s portfolio and can make you look amateurish to a trained eye.
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