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Ok I want to hear what you have to say about my portfolio. Be honest, do your worst, I can take it. Critique away! Aug 18 05 12:14 pm Link Okay, I'll be honest. There is nothing in your profile that would draw me to use you as a model. The picture quality is poor for the most part. They don't show what you look like, but they do seem to show some personal interest in the macabre. Your portfolio and front page blurb seem to me more of an editorial statement about your interests than a models page meant to get the model work. Aug 18 05 12:53 pm Link I see the same thing. Well actually don't see anything to attract me to use you as a model in your portfolio. Looks like more effects than photographs. Additionally, none of the images show any skills (other than ink and hair dye). Find a direction then get some awesome photographers to shoot you. Aug 18 05 01:08 pm Link What they said ^^ There isn't much different there from a lot of other alt models ports I've seen. You might want to throw a few mainstream pics in so others can see what you really look like, some clean headshots and with the tattoos maybe some artsy pinups. You might even open up a few more avenues of work. Nothing wrong with doing alt but if you're looking to make some money at this then don't severely limit yourself to just one genre. And you should change your intro speech to what your goals in modeling are, what you want to accomplish etc., a bit more business like. Not many are interested in your personal likes and thoughts. Doesn't matter in modeling. Sounds like a "Myplace" speech. Aug 18 05 01:15 pm Link Thanks. I'm not sure what you mean when you say the pictures don't show what I look like. I have close ups and full body. What do you mean throw in some mainstream pics to show what I really look like? That is what i really look like. More effects then photographs? What effects? I guess that would be things the photographer has done. I know more then half of my pics have no photoshopping done. And with how I look, I don't think I can do any other genre then alt, so opening up more avenues of work doesn't really seem like an option. Aug 18 05 01:24 pm Link Well if you were to take some away and keep some others wich would you choose? They're not all crap, a few have been in some big shows, sold alot of prints etc. I should also stress I'm not trying to do commercial or fashion work at all. I'm more in the alt/fetish/erotic vein. Aug 18 05 01:28 pm Link Hel Inferna wrote: No, they're not all crap - and I don't particularly like most of what I see in this genre... But there's a lot of not particularly good images in your port here IMO. Aug 18 05 01:49 pm Link Aug 18 05 02:20 pm Link an an honest level I think that your shots have this punk meets glamour meets hardcore meets androgynous feel to it, However I dont think that your portfolio shows your versatility and what you can realyl do as a model. what do you hope to achieve as a model? Aug 18 05 02:29 pm Link I left a comment on your ethan long gun pic...as I also have a cliche gun pic I did...but I would tend to agree with Melvin...glamour photographers and the photographers you are working with have diametrically opposed sensibilities. Your work will not appeal to them. You will probably not be attracted to their work either. It is a matter of different worlds. That is why the idea of being judged by a jury of your peers is perhaps a more helpful one than putting your self out there in general... Aug 18 05 02:30 pm Link Thanks for all the feedback. I've changed a few images. I also changes what it says on my page. My goals as a model are to have fun and make some extra money. And I would like to to this by in my own way contributing to a work of art. Wich I have been doing. I enjoy doing erotica work, fine art as well as content for websites. And i get the occasional job mofdeling alt clothing, or some t shirt sites like rottoncotton, punkstuff, lollipop. I was the model for the merch for the new movie Land of the Dead. That was the "biggest" thing that I've done. I'm not trying to get into the industry or any such thing like that. Like I said, fun, some extra money, and a contribution to the arts. Aug 18 05 02:41 pm Link I think I have to go with Melvin on this. She asked, however, for kind of an open critique. Most of us here are not into the genre which kind of limits how appropriate our opinions are. let's say Roger Ebert hates animation; would you really want his opinion on your new Anime feature? or, a better example. You find a group of photographers that focus on shooting church events and it's members. Do you really want to ask their opinion on your new swimsuit session? With that said, I think she should have asked for opinions from perhaps fans of alternative type of work. It's important to know your audience. Aug 18 05 03:37 pm Link For those saying some of the critiques aren't valid is total nonsense. You don't know what kind of work we have done in the past and speaking for myself I don't want much of that type of work up (yes, I have done it but I have no use for it now) since I really don't want or need those types of models. There are many things I did I could not show here. Melvin, you're statement is irrelevant. In your case Melvin, you do, that's fine. But don't ever say someone has not done it because they don't show it, there are reasons. I've worked with many goth and bondage models and once had studio sets only for that purpose. But I have a real "main st. studio" and showing that work and having those sets tends to scare mainstream people off. Don't be so quick to judge what you don't know. By Hel Inferna: "I enjoy doing erotica work". I've been internationally published in around 8 languages in erotica and nude publications. I believe I can make a valid critique on this post. Here's a sample, I don't make unbacked claims. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de … ce&s=books http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de … ce&s=books She said "BRING IT!" "Ok I want to hear what you have to say about my portfolio. Be honest, do your worst, I can take it. Critique away!" Then she questions every word and says she doesn't understand. Then don't ask if you don't know what your asking for. Aug 18 05 04:13 pm Link Hel Inferna wrote: I only have a minute because the world is coming to an end here and the lightening might fry my computer. But, you have made your front page useful and helpful. Good work, nicely done. I'll look at the pictures tomorrow when the sun is out and I'm not having to shut down in a hurry! Aug 18 05 04:31 pm Link Aug 18 05 04:40 pm Link Melvin Moten Jr wrote: I agree! Keep on keeping on! New looks will eventually be captured by the right photographers. I say you have potential kiddo! Aug 18 05 04:42 pm Link Glamour Studio /Gary wrote: I'm ok with everyones critique, I only questioned what didn't make sense. Theres no way I can do venues other then alt. If you put me in a designer suit, or in a bikini on top of a sports car, I'd still have all the tattoos and dreadlocks hanging out. And I really don't understand why people were saying you couldn't see what I really looked like, Its all pic of me, close ups, full body, everything. Aug 18 05 08:36 pm Link My favorite current actor, Edward Norton Jr. is anti-smoking...to the point where he demands a script change if the scene calls for him to smoke. I'm the same way with guns. I even refused a five-figure project that called for a gun scene (although I have shot period costume work that included a gun on a set). But not a model image. A model holding a gun in an image is immediately cast aside and won't be given the time of day in consideration. There are much better ways to portray beauty and the beast... But that's just me. Aug 18 05 08:58 pm Link Send those jobs to me! I'll shoot...er...take pictures of models with guns  As for Eddie...he's a great actor. But...*ahem*...I'm surprised that someone in Hollywood is promoting censorship. I mean, if the writer creates a character that smokes and he wishes to play that character, then he should SMOKE!! But, we do need context. If the movie folks go to him and say, "hey, we want you to play Madame X." And his response is, "Ok, but I do not want to smoke during this part." That is ok. No problem with that. Then I blame the producers/writers for bending to the whims of an actor. Aug 19 05 10:11 am Link |
