Forget the sugarskulls, faery of the glen, geisha girl, cupcake costumes, cheesy cosplay, facepainting, hair extensions, fake nails, fake tan, fake booty, show some more skin, and all the associated nonsense the fauxtographers tell you is necessary in your "port" (this is what amateurs call it) if you "wanna make it" as a model.
There are only two major things which a model's "book" (what the legitimate industry calls it) needs to show clearly: an expressive face, a.k.a a headshot that you really know how to wear clothes with attitude, a.k.a a full or 3/4 length shot – and it goes without saying, the most difficult part of being a model. If you are planning to go the "freelance model" route, get yourself a photographer who knows what a portfolio shoot is all about and what a beginner's book needs...you would be surprised how many photographers, facebook and internet providers who offer "portfolio shoots", and especially pretenders haven't the faintest idea. It is actually better to look out two or three decent photographers, as this will show: -a variety of styles and looks for basically the same type of shots... -that you are not a one trick pony, or worse still a captive monkey owned and trained by a single organ grinder... -that you can work with different people, and that you have experience doing so...which is actually what freelance modelling is all about...no matter what type of modelling you want to go into. But expect to pay for your folio shoots! Legitimate photographers are hardworking and time poor business people trying their utmost to earn a living in a demanding industry – no-one will grant you *tfp unless, and until you prove that you are serious, committed to learning, dedicated to your future career, and realise that you will be joining the industry as a small business person as well, genuinely looking to succeed and not a user of the people who help you along the way. As you are most likely already aware, "modelling" has now replaced rock star as a "career" path chosen by far too many dreamweavers, bedroom supermodels, and lounge lizards who have been threatened by Centrelink with having their dole cut off unless they get off their chubby, pimply butts. Every photographer I know has ended a time-wasting discussion about paths to modelling with a potential hopeful after hearing : "I don wanna rooly be a model. My 'daddy' tole me to git him some nekid pitches, or hes get hizzelf a nuvva hoe. If use do em fer free, oil do watteva yz want. No holes barred." And as too many court cases attest, some of the GWC's (guys with cameras but not much else, looking to chat up gullible, apparently world wise girls) still fall for such come-ons, but professionals have heard it so many times it doesn't even raise a smirk. And if you are planning to try to get signed with a modelling agency, be aware that in recent years legitimate agents have been turning away all girls clutching a 'port' under their or more pics on their phone, or a link to their online "modelling" website, showing agglomerations of dozens of selfies, and badly taken snapshots, and the rest of what they now openly refer to as "so much rubbish"
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