The model portfolio

What is a portfolio?

Do I really need a portfolio?

Which and how many photos

Are nude shots essential?

Online portfolio

Print portfolio

How to get a portfolio

 

Working for time (TFCD, etc.)

Introduction

How to get a free portfolio

Working for time

TFCD time for CD

TFDL time for download

Why do it?

What does it really cost?

Rewards for the model

Selecting a photographer

The photographer's muse

Permitted uses of photos

Photographer's usage

 

Sell your body

Marketing for models

Agency representation

Model agencies list

Freelance modelling

 

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What is a model portfolio and do I need one?

A model's portfolio - or book - is a collection of the model's best, professionally produced photographs. Family and holiday snaps don't count.

Depending on where you are in your career, your model portfolio would contain photographs produced specifically for your portfolio, tear sheets (published photographs from past assignments, torn out of magazines) or the digital equivalent, or a mixture of both.

 

Before you spend money on a portfolio, be aware that you do not need a portfolio to become a model! Find out whether you need a model portfolio.

A portfolio is most likely to be online. Print portfolios do still exist.

Portfolios on CD as well as Comp cards (or Zed cards) have been dropped from this edition of Wolf's Models Guide because I have not seen any for some time.

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