How to Build a Fashion Modeling Portfolio

Video Transcript

" Hello, my name is Shalon Delgado and on behalf of Expert Village I’m here to talk to you today about a professional portfolio. Models need to have a portfolio on hand at all times, it’s essential for them to take with them. You want to take your portfolio to any casting calls, model calls, agency interviews or manager interview, you also want to take it to any kind of shoot that you’re going on to compare it with the work that your photographer that you’re actually getting to work with does. You want to make sure that you have in there your essential items, which is: a professional headshot, full body, a commercial shot and those are the three basic ones that you want to have in there but you can also have some art in there but mostly those other three. You also want to make sure that your photographs are taken by more than one photographer, you want to at least have 12 strong images in your portfolio. When I say at least, I’m not telling you to have too many more because too many pictures is not good either, people don’t want to flip through a book a pictures, it’s not professional. So make sure that your portfolio is very strong, get different opinions from other photographers on how it looks and make sure that you’re not just spending your money on pictures that look the same because it’s a waste of money. Thank you for visiting, you may visit my website at www.myspace.com/shalon711, have a great day."