Focusing on your Modeling photos

Your photos are what an aspiring model should focus on. Targeting your self and striving to get modeling work by being smart about your photo shoots, who you work with and the type of promotion you need to do for yourself.

Self promotion means so much when it comes to becoming a model, and working as a model. Just having a compcard and a portfolio book or website isn't enough.

The best thing to do is to bring an advertising and editorial feel to your shoot.
To make a compcard and to mail it out. To target yourself to agencies that work with models similar to your look. There are modeling agencies out there for you!

Modeling Photos All Models Need

Here is an example of a modeling photo that all models need!
The energy shot, the action shot and the smile.

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Why can't models be short? Model Talk at 6pm Tonight

Have you seen any successful Shorter models? Well there are more out there than you think. Models are not all 5'7" or 5'10 and are not all towering Giraffes or tall. Models are all sizes but maybe you aren't noticing enough where the shorter models are...and instead dwelling on where they aren't.

Tune in tonight to MODEL TALK where I will be talking about the Heights of a Model, and where the short girl, the short model, can find modeling work.

www.blogtalkradio.com/isobellajade

Getting Modeling Work and Modeling Castings means Being with the Right Agencies

If you want to model with brands and magazines you have to work with the right agencies so do NOT be so desperate to get an agency that you basically end up naked with your photo on some sketchy agency website.

If your goals are to be in magazines then you need to target your photos to look like you should be in one. No matter what one it is, you need to target yourself to be where you want to be!

Hint for Submitting to Modeling Agency

Just a hint: " Most legit modeling agencies do not advertise. So if you see a casting on the Internet, always submit with questions like (doesn't have to be in this order):

1. What is the name of your agency.
2. Is there a fee to model
3. Do you have a website
4. Type of jobs they have gotten models within the past month.

IF THESE CAN NOT BE ANSWERED either by email, phone or on the website then do not waste your time. There are too many modeling scams out there, too many modeling network sites that cost money to join, and to many ways you can get mixed in with the wrong people and the wrong agencies.

The Real Shoe Modeling Job: NOT The Pretty Girls With Pretty Feet Wanted -- $100+ per hr Jobs

With the Internet comes scams...but when it comes to shoe modeling and using your feet to model, - which is a great thing for petite models......Don't fall for this foot fetish shit. There are so many weirdos out there. If you really want to shoe model or use your feet to model then get some nice commercial looking photos of your feet, look at ads for nail care or shoe ad campaigns..like for Jimmy Choo, and get some ideas. Don't waste your time with jobs that wont bring you forward...unless your goal is to be the most sought after foot fetish model? Yuck!

If you want to make money with your feet you can make $1000 dollars for a few hours of your time, if you feet look nice. Don't waste your time will things that wont get your ahead as a model. Skip the crap. Focus on where there is print work waiting for you.
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Petite Modeling Agencies

There are not always modeling agencies that bluntly say "we accept petite models," but there are commercial print modeling agencies and you should consider these when it comes to submitting to get an agent. Also the word model might mean for you to be modeling sunglasses, handbags, shoes, or even just your thumb! A lot of brands, from dish soap, to tissues need models and actors and you should open your eyes to what modeling really is.- which is so many things.

Start noticing where models are that do not involve fashion. Start noticing the ads and commercials, brochures, etc. Even Tiffany's uses a "parts" model for their current ads with The Frank Gehry Collection. The jewelry hangs from the models neck ad you can't tell her height. Modeling is many things.

What kind of model are you? And do your photos say this?

Petite Models should use their HEAD to get ahead

The easy crop shot is ok for your headshot, but also try to plan your shoots to be based around your torso and up. Using your shoulders, and your eyes, the angle of your head as the focus of the shot. You can add jewelry, makeup or a funky hair style too. Over the shoulder is a sexy way to show your face. The makeup company called Shiseido has a cool ad out now with a girl who only has seagreen eyeliner on, it is sooo hot, a beautiful shot. I could stare at it all day. But instead I will take the idea and apply it to my own shoots.

You should do the same, get inspired by the images you see. This shot is an example of an over the shoulder.

Stand Tall Petite Models, Print is your Passage

Petite models should focus on what they do have. Above is a shot of myself in Luna magzine where the photographer did a great job making me look taller than I actually am. And proportioned, remember that the way you stand can really make your short body look taller. Your torso needs to be stretched and your legs should be apart to give some air and space and length to your body. The photographer should also shoot you at a distance and in a way that allows you to not look short.

State what you want and bring ideas and samples to the table. If you are very short, you might want the photographer to focus on your other parts, ' like your hands, feet, eyes, hair, " and let the shoot be based around the features you have that stand out. Being a natural model is very popular and commercial print modeling and the print modeling world is the passage for the petite model. Focus on your images number one,-number two,-focus on your marketing and keep trying to get an agent and try to book modeling work with aspiring brands and don't be afraid to promote yourself...yourself to magazines and brands.

Isobella Jade

Modeling casting tales and tips

Today at a modeling casting a girl asked me if I had a nail file. It reminded me of all the things we don't think we need but really do to prepare for a casting. Even if it is for a hand modeling job!

1. Nail file
2. Handcream
3. clear nailpolish

other items to keep handy are FRESH compcards without an agency sticker on it, what if you only have a few cards left and they all have the name of the other agency you work with and you have a casting from a different one. Wait to place stickers until you get a casting.

Also tweezers and a comb go a long way in a rush!

Modeling Poses and Tricks

Something just moving your arm a few inches, putting some extra space in -between your upper arm and your side, or inhaling to arch your body a little more, - can make all the difference to look more porportioned and taller in your shoots. I would look at yourself in the mirror, a full length mirror is nice and you can play infront of it before your shoots, or before the shot, because you want to know your body, sometimes the photographer will tell you how to pose but other times you need to know as well,-this goes for shooting with a national magazine or brand, and a test shoot!

Body Part Modeling Photo Samples

When it comes to creating a parts card for body part modeling, enclosed are some samples for the type of shots you might want to consider for your compcard. Some of these shots could even be taken at the Kitchen table!

Modeling Podcast with Tips for Modeling

(PRLog.Org) – Mar 03, 2008 – Models tend to share beauty tips, but not many models share real life modeling advice for the aspiring model of the Internet generation today. Although Isobella Jade, petite model and author, is an exception as she offers a voice for the aspiring and petite model. You can get a history of modeling, learn how to find a modeling agent, how to work as a model as any height, how to market yourself as a model, and how to find your own modeling work, - all -in –one, at one place- at Isobella Jade’s Model Talk pod cast.

Isobella’s tips are meant for the real hustlers, the ambitious and the unconventional aspiring models who seek answers about the modeling business. Isobella is turning her own experience as a model into quick fifteen minute sessions of free modeling advice. Giving real honest lived through tips of how to be a model despite the so-called-standards of the modeling business and telling you that you can in deed beat the odds, as she gives a business-like approach to being a model and explains how to target yourself as a model.

Isobella says about the segments, “Today a girl can download her picture and call herself a model in a matter of seconds but really getting work with magazines and brands is a whole different story. The modeling business, and being a model, is about self promotion and I think of the pod cast as a quick pick me up for the aspiring models and the girls who want to learn about the underdog’s view of the modeling business. A lot of girls think they can’t model- or don’t try, because they feel they are too short, but I am very short and I have been able to get a lot of modeling work by thinking like a marketer and promoting myself as a model in areas of the modeling business that work for me, not against me.”

In a world where America’s Next Top Model and other reality shows give a perspective into the life of a model and what it takes to be one, Isobella shares a different perspective and portrayal of what it means to be a model and the real marketing that is involved with being a model.

“I try to give advice that I wish someone would have given me. It is a lonely, dodgy, seedy business and entering it alone and trying to weed through the scams, the jerks, and not make mistakes, and get work, can be hard...but it is very possible.”
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Isobella Jade is a petite model living in NYC, her modeling memoir Almost 5'4' is about being a petite model and using the Internet to get ahead, she recently was featured in Mac Directory Magazine. She has been featured on many national media outlets. Isobella’s Model Talk can be heard here: www.blogtalkradio.com/isobellajade or you can find her on her website www.isobelladreams.com

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Isobella Jade Featured in Mac Directory Magazine

In the Winter/Spring issue of Mac Directory magazine I am featured and interviewed about how I wrote my modeling memoir at the Apple Store, -this was also such a fun photoshoot with photographer Robert Caldarone.

Christi Harris Cleans Up Your Crazy Eyebrows

Some people think the eyebrows shape the face and for aspiring models your eyes should speak in your photos, which is why you should have clean eye brows.

While walking through Columbus Circle Shops yesterday I noticed a little stand in the entry way, it was a hub for Christi Harris, - a specialized eyebrow shop, where you can learn about the shape of your eyebrows, and how to maintain the natural shape you have.

Alot of girls tweeze too much, or they don't tweeze their eyebrows enough and this is a good spot to check out for some advice on shaping your eyebrows without waxing or tweezing, they have a new approach towards the eyebrow industry and can give you some tips for keeping your face looking fresh!

$20

www.christiharris.com