You need to clarify whether it is high fashion or commercial looks or
else you are wasting your money. If you want to model with intensions
of making money you have to find where your "type" fits the mold. There
is an investment of money in a model's career, especially in the early
stages, so the investment should be a worthy one where the photographs
will qualify by the industry's standards and get the model hired to
their appropriate type of work suited for the model in the market area
that they will work. It's one thing for a new photographer to need their
own experience with working with models to negotiate the terms where
maybe the model pays for some of the prints, but paying hundreds of
dollars for a service from a photographer who may not necessarily
provide the appropriately needed kinds of photography a model really
needs in their book is a costly mistake on the model's behalf.
Not
all photos are the correct quality and type of print that may be needed
for a particular model. For example, a commercial-type model really has
"no use" for editorial-style photographs in their portfolio when they
are not an editorial fashion model. The photos may impress the model,
their friends, and even that photographer, but it won't get them hired
commercially at their agency. Not all models are high fashion models.
Not all models are catalog models. Models must remember that there are
so many people who want to be models and the industry has its' scammers
and less scrupulous individuals who just want your money or really are
just clueless to what the modeling industry is looking for. They are the
type of people who are like salespeople and just say what they think a
model wants to hear just so they can get their money or to just meet and
be around many young models (even when they know they'll probably never
get the kind of work the new model desires (ex. Victoria Secret
caliber).
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