PUBLISHED in: Esquire, Inked, Guitar, American Photographer, Wall Street Journal, Vogue UK, Powerboat & Motor Yacht, Black Enterprise, Baking & Snack, and many other magazines........
Shooting LIMITED trade for images. All of these images were shot during a 2 hour trade for images at my little studio and inside Railroad Square Art Park:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikafowler … 850117954/
If your 5 foot tall or shorter, please contact me, Would like to photograph you.
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Tips for models that wants to shoot TPI or TFP with me:
a) Quickest way to get a gig is to send me a simple, clean, well-lit headshot, Keep the avant-garde pics or the full-body shots for inside your profile, because most photographers and casting directors are looking at the face first.
b) Get reliable transportation and get to a casting session ON TIME or ten minutes before if you can. Showing up early will always score you major points. ("My car blah, blah, I forgot the map at home, the dog ate the directions, traffic, blah, blah," will not fly. And NEVER, EVER use the "I feel so sick because I drank too much last night." Most photographers I know, myself included, will give you a pat in the back and tell you to google the nearest AA meeting and will not touch you with a ten-foot pole.) Here's some insight to the PROFESSIONAL photographer's mind. Of course the photographer gets excited when an attractive model walks into the studio. His first reaction is "I bet she'll look great in this or that setup." But if she shows up late, she's got an attitude, that initial excitement quickly gives way to the following thoughts: "Hmmmm, if I schedule a shoot, will she show up or will I waste my time, will I be paying my assistant(s) for nothing that day, will I be able to make the rent in my studio..." So --to quote Tony Soprano-- never forget that "this is a business" and even when it's TF, the shoot has to have business-oriented results, i.e. to produce the best possible pictures than can bring clients to the photographer. It's a fun business, and most of the times in involves an artistic sensibility, but it's still a business. Bottom line, if you show up on time and it's between you and a better-looking model who was late, 95% of the time you'll get the gig.
c) Approach a TF shoot as if it were a paid gig. Remember, the photographer is not getting paid either, so do not make the fatal mistake of treating a TF shoot as a "free" shoot. The only way to get a photographer to bring his A-game to the table, is if you bring your A-game as well. And if you do, you'll start getting recommended for paid gigs faster than you think.
d) DO NOT photoshop the crap out of your pictures!! This may seem like an odd statement, in a business that's all about beauty and perfection, but altering your appearance significantly on the pictures that you post here, is actually detrimental to you getting gigs. Fixing a pimple, a drop of sweat or stray hair on your pictures is, of course, okay. If, however, your pictures are overexposed and filtered beyond recognition in Photoshop to hide age lines, your actual body shape liquified and skewed to make you look thinner, in other words, a different person shows up to a casting session than the one in your photographs, what do you think the photographer is going to do once he realizes how much extra work he'll have to do to get a usable picture?
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