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Business cards for models
I am curious on thoughts for business cards for models? I find that some models carry them, while others may not. If everyone has done their homework during a 1:1 photoshoot, it 'may' not be as important, but what about more general events such as social events or meet & greets? This is not to say that everyone should have top of the line cards, but sometimes I believe that some form of contact info is important. Thinking even more about this topic, is it more common just to add contact info into a smartphone? Aug 01 18 07:52 am Link Back in the stone ages, when I modeled, I had business cards. They had my email address, a photo, my website address, and MM and OMP numbers. Sometimes I'd leave a small stack at a studio or with a photographer or MUA I worked with often, in case they wanted to recommend me. Mostly I found them handy for meet and greets and group shoots, as those could often get hectic. Agency models are more likely to carry comp cards, I imagine. But I never was one, so not sure on that. Nowadays... I still carry business cards, just not for modeling. In fact, I have two... one for my professional self with all my contact info on it (because I'm too low on the totem pole at my job to have business cards, I guess) and one for the meetup group I run. ETA: I suppose it's worth noting a couple things. One: I make my living doing brand development, graphic design, and marketing management. I designed my own cards and had them printed out of my own pocket. I never would have asked a photographer to do this for me, and found it quite pretentious when photographers did this without me asking them to (worse if they tried to charge me for printable files, which did happen). Two: I always asked permission from photographers before using their images on my cards, and never used images with a photographer's watermark on my own cards. Aug 01 18 08:23 am Link Ten years ago, I had a comp card with my stats, genres, contact info, MM# and OMP#. I took them to meet and greets, group shoots, workshops, etc. At some point, around 2012, people really just stopped asking for business cards, and when I traveled I was doing almost exclusively one-on-one shoots rather than groups or workshops - so I stopped having them printed. I've thought recently about getting generic business cards printed again, but it seems sort of counterproductive, unless I started touring as a workshop model again, which I haven't done in years. Aug 01 18 10:24 am Link BobBarford Photo wrote: A model having a Model Comp card with them for Open Calls, Go Sees and castings …is still relevant and important … very often more so than just having their full portfolio to present . Aug 02 18 07:50 am Link |
