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Quick Tips
and Advice For Beginners
(or) Home
Safety
Use an alias name to protect your true
ID
Never give out your real email address to new photographers
Do not publish your Tel number or real address
Take a chaperone to new assignments... or...
Get references from previous models of the photographer
Don't travel back late all made up and on your own
Do not shoot in your home with a new photographer
Avoid Rip-Offs
Don't pay for a portfolio shoot
Don't sign agency contracts without 24 hour read... and...
Get legal advice on any agency contract first
Insist on using a TF* form for TF* shoots
Take away a cd with all photos from TF* shoots
Insist on shared fares on TF* shoots
Don't go nude on a first TF* with a new photographer
Marketing
Start a small portfolio on a model portfolio site
Contact photographers, whose work you like, to ask for a TF*
Talk to small indie fashion designers: Camden Market?
Talk with trainee make-up artists and involve them in TF*
Don't put mobile phone photos on your portfolio
Don't create a web site until you have done paid shoots
Obtain unusual clothes and outfits
Getting Paid Work
Upgrade to a paid portfolio on a portfolio
web site
Consider topless, art nude, implied nude work
Consider parts modelling
Consider artist modelling
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Avoid Problems
Don't model full nude if you hope to
have a professional career in something other than modelling!
Don't appear in images your boyfriend won't like
Don't miss assignments or turn up too early or late
Go to bed earlier the night before a shoot
Becoming a Professional
Paid Model
Get your own web site
Determine flexible rates
Learn to do your own make up
Be polite and professional in your emails
Get a second mobile -pay-as-you-go phone for modelling
Find a good local small business account for tax returns
Learn poses for different genres
Too Short, Not very
pretty - How to succeed
Consider alternative modelling
Consider topless, nude, implied nude modelling
Consider parts modelling
Obtain or make interesting outfits
Consider artist modelling
Maximizing Pay
Travel at non-peak times
Pre-book train journeys 2 weeks in advance
Ask for travel costs to be paid
Work as local as possible
Offer reduced rates for longer assignments
Ask for a deposit (25%) to deter cancellations
Open a Paypal Account online
All this advice is fleshed out in great detail with lots more tips and examples, plus explanations in my book.
An online E-version
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Model Portfolio Sites
You can put your first portfolio on these web sites for free...
www.vogue.org.uk **recommended!
www.onemodelplace.com
www.purestorm.com
www.net-model.com
www.starnow.com
www.modelmayhem.com
www.musecube.com
www.gothicmodels.com
You can get your own free web site here...
www.bravenet.com
Some Jargon Explained
TF*
means Time For Print or Images on a CD
(you work unpaid, as does the photographer, but you
both get copies of the photographs to use on your portfolios!)
Tog means Photographer
Model Release means a signed contract assuring the photographer of right of use of
your image in return for modelling fee. |