How to Create Photos That Can Get You Commercial Modeling Jobs

Series Summary

Photography is the art of making pictures by exposing film, or another medium, to a timed flash of light. The basic equipment used for photography includes a digital or mechanical camera equipped with a flash, film or a memory card. Mastering the art of photography is a technical and challenging experience. One has to learn how to focus the lens, control the aperture of the lens, filter the light and understand the importance of the focal length and duration of the exposure, among other things. In this free video series, let a professional photographer explain the art of photography, proper lighting and digital cameras. First, he talks about creating photos to get commercial model jobs, ways to become a cameraman, buying a digital camera and comparing different digital cameras. Next, learn about night time photography lighting effects, building a lighting kit, using a light meter and buying a video camera. Finally, he discusses becoming a medical photographer, what a camera lucida and hard lighting is.

Video Transcript

"My name is Anthony Maddaloni, and I'm going to talk about how to create photos that can get you commercial modeling jobs. Now, to get commercial modeling jobs, you need to, obviously, have some models pose for you. So you can get these types of photos, where people are going to hire you for commercial model photography. And to start doing that, you can look on certain websites that offer trade agreements, where a model needs work for her portfolio, and as a photographer you need work for your portfolio to get these commercial modeling jobs. And, that's really a great way to start getting, again, your foot in the business to see if you really like doing this. And by looking at, you know, ways photographers start. And you're not going to really start with a super, high end look. You're going to start small and build and expand upon your style, and upon how much money you could potentially make getting these commercial modeling jobs. One big part of this is the word "commercial." Now commercial means that someone or...someone, a brand, perhaps, really anything, clothing, a car manufacturer, they're buying this to sell something. So that's something you really want to keep in mind as a photographer. This isn't high art, but it's essentially advertising. So that's one thing you might want to look at before you get into this area of photography, saying like "Okay, well this is commercial." It doesn't mean it has to be bland, or just cut and dry. You might actually be able to incorporate some of your more artistic flair into this. Not too much, just enough to set yourself apart from people, and try to get some commercial model photography jobs."