How to Put Together a Child's Modeling Portfolio

Your child's modeling portfolio is the key to showing booking agents that your child has what it takes to take great photographs. Without a portfolio, the agent cannot see what capabilities your child has. Putting together a child's modeling portfolio is not difficult, but should be done properly to gain the interest your child deserves.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Page protectors
• Three-ring binder

1. Have several photographs of your child taken, with different clothes on, different facial expressions and different scenery. You want their portfolio to show versatility, so you don't want every photograph to be too similar.

2. Choose 10 photographs that represent your child in the best way. Include some profile shots, some action shots, some smiling faces and some more serious faces.

3. Send those 10 photographs out to be professionally printed, sized 8 by 10 inches. Do not try to print them yourself at home, send them to a professional printer to have them printed. The quality will be much better.

4. Put the photographs into page protector sheets with holes for a three-ring binder. Place them in the binder, saving the best photograph for the cover.

5. Put your child's best photograph on the front of the binder under the plastic cover. This photograph should be a close up, with no accessories to distract from your child themselves.

Tips & Warnings

• Keep your portfolio nice, this is the key to booking jobs.
• Don't overstage the photographs, booking agents and clients hate seeing overly posed kids.