How to find a fashion model.
Generally, when i am working with a model, she is registered at a fashion model agency. I tend to work with Elite, Next and LA Models in Los Angeles. I like working with these agencies as the girls are very professional and the agents know who I am. The agents at these agencies respect and like my work and are constantly sending new girls to meet me or work on various assignments.
I get emails daily from models from all around the world. It is generally pretty hard to work with these girls. Girls send me requests asking if I will be in their country or trying to find out if I would be interested in flying them to the US or Los Angeles. Outside of the obvious costs, even if the client had a budget that could afford it, I rarely “fly in” models that do not come highly recommended from an agency. On the rare times that I have disaster has struck. Once I was working on a job in Mexico. The client and I flew in a model from Miami. The model arrived at the airport with a really short bob of hair and a bad of extensions. Our team tried to put the extensions in as the client was looking for long hair and she looked like she was wearing a mullet. On another occasion we flew a model into the Bahamas for a job and she had gained a lot of weight. It was for a swimsuit calendar and she was not proportionate to the other models there. So, the client sent her home. Needless to say it can be very important to meet a model before actually shooting her – especially when it is for a job.
In the beginning, before you are a professional photographer, you may have to shoot friends and people that you see have the potential to be models. Ask friends or ask your friends if they know models. Social networking sites like myspace and facebook can also be a great source for finding models as are model releated sites. I am sure if you get on google and type in model sites you will come up with a plethora of talent. They may not want to work with you without strong images in your book but you have to start somewhere. At the start of my career I was booking work and finding models based upon six images in my portfolio. Forget quantity and go with quality. Put your very best foot forward and people will want to work with you.
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