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Models - When did you know?
A long time ago I was shooting this very beautiful & sexy young model for a clothing designer. After the shoot she said she wanted to continue shooting because she wanted pictures for her portfolio. She left the room and came back completely naked and said "make me see what everyone else sees!" She said that she had always been told that she was beautiful and sexy but when she look in the mirror she just didn't see what the big deal was? Question: When do you recognize your talent as a model? Is it the constant compliments from family and friends? Is it because you want the attention or is it because deep down inside you know you have the "it" factor? Your thoughts please Dec 06 06 04:52 pm Link Hmm, I don't know. One of the shots I started out with here was one taken by my fiancee when we were getting ready to go to my sister's high school graduation. I was wearing a shimmery dark aqua spaghetti strap cocktail dress (it looked more like a ballet costume) and I got a comment from a family member (I'll admit it!!) to the effect that I looked gorgeous enough for modeling. Yeah, that did give me ideas. Dec 06 06 08:45 pm Link I had always secretly wantedto be a model,but what little girl doesn't.It wasn't until I found OMP off of an alternative model I always liked on myspace.I posted some pics my BF took of me with an old vintage black and white cam his grandfather gave him.He ended up becoming jealous because I used his pictures to show everyone how beautriful I was and he aparently didn't want people to see my beauty.He was crazy. Dec 06 06 09:04 pm Link Well hmmmm... I've always loved to be in front of cameras when I was a really little girl and I would strike poses etc... Then I had people asking me if I was a model, and finally I just took a step in the right direction to start getting into this. I do remember telling my mom that I wanted to model from about 11 years on~ Dec 06 06 11:31 pm Link mrlouis wrote: ...I still dont see what everyone else sees. Dec 06 06 11:38 pm Link Truthfully, I never thought I had what it takes. My passion has always been singing. I'm a natural singer, been singing since about age 8, but I've always been shy with my talent, just as I was shy about my body. And of course school peers don't make things any easier. I was always the tallest, skinniest, shortest hair, etc. I'd gotten compliments about my height before, however I would always be asked if I were a basketball player; no one suspected I was actually on Drill Team (yep: a rah-rah, sis-boom-bah, spirit squad girl). Modeling was never in my focal point . . . . . . until of course I got older, began wearing heels, and showing a little curvature. It began the question of whether or not I were a model, a smooth switch from the basketball crap (hell, I'd even been asked if I had my boobs done, lol), yet I was still stuck on singing, but too shy to enter talent shows. My first fashion show & shoot was in January of last year, and from there, I guess I just grew with it. I NEVER THOUGHT I HAD THE "IT" FACTOR though, and I still don't think I have "it" Sometimes I don't even think I'm worth "it." Dec 07 06 12:08 am Link rania wrote: Modeling IS indeed fun. In fact, I love runway. Dec 07 06 12:09 am Link Lelah G wrote: i haven't done any runway shows yet Dec 07 06 12:15 am Link mrlouis wrote: I recognized my talent as a model through all of the job offers I was getting and how happy photographers were to shoot me. It was compliments from my fellow artists. Compliments from family and friends don't mean as much.. They love you and are always saying nice things. But "business compliments" are what make the difference. Those people aren't just trying to make you smile. Dec 07 06 12:20 am Link my dad raised me in front of a camera (he's a photographer) Dec 07 06 12:21 am Link Jessalyn wrote: thats so cool~ has he taken any of the pictures in your port? Dec 07 06 12:22 am Link mrlouis wrote: Being a model is SO much more than good looks! I think personality carries you very far! I am ......(hyperactive, goofy, nerdy, funny and fun to work with, and don't care what people think) Like any business, people want to work with people they ENJOY working with! Dec 07 06 12:25 am Link Every girls dream is obviously to be a model and of course i wanted to be that! So then when i started growing up I went to an agency but for runway not print (shouldve picked the other one instead). And then i stopped and after that random people always thought i was a model and i was like "Noooo.." after a lot of people said that I should be a model I started thinking about it and watching americas next top model and sayint o myself, I could do that, I know I can. Unfortunately I just started getting into modeling this year so It`ll take me awhile to get there...but i`ll try my best! ;] Dec 07 06 12:27 am Link Courtney King wrote: I am odd! I always wanted to be a doctor! Ummm...m. Dec 07 06 12:33 am Link rania wrote: nope. the kind of modeling I enjoy doing is not anything I would be comfortable shooting with my dad. so when we do shoot together it's cute headshots in the grass, etc which isn't anything I really need to add to my port. It's my private collection I don't share with others. Dec 07 06 12:38 am Link Wynd Mulysa wrote: Quirky is key! I look like an alien! Haha! But seriously, you have to be unique in every way shape or form, as that is how you create a demand for YOU! It all boils down to economics: Supply and Demand Dec 07 06 12:39 am Link Jessalyn wrote: thats sweet. Dec 07 06 12:42 am Link When at the age of 12 I was was already 5'8.5" and weighed about 100 lbs. I was approached (or rather my parents were) about modeling. I was not really interested, but at 14, I made the decision myself. I worked as a straight size model until I was about 21 (in Milwaukee, then Chicago, and finally NYC) and then I thought it was all over, and I wanted to be a teacher. I became a teacher, and now, many years later, (and many sizes larger and only an inch taller, lol) I returned to modeling as a plus size model. It is more fun now then when I was younger. Then it was work. Now it is just a fun part time job. Dec 07 06 12:43 am Link oops, double post Dec 07 06 12:43 am Link Well, my mom, who was a model, always talked about how my sister and I were both offered contracts as small children and how much she wished she could have followed through on that for us as an opportunity, so the idea was stuck in my head from about birth onward. However when I did not grow up to be tall or thin I gave up for a long time, I know the 'score'. Still...all my life strangers have stopped me on the street to stare and comment positively on my eyes, bone structure, lips, etc. So when I discovered online modelling portfolio sites I figured I had nothing to lose and everything to gain by seeing if any photographers would be as interested in my look as everyone else seemed to be. So far it's one of my most fun endeavours. Dec 07 06 12:45 am Link Brittney Harrington Jr. wrote: Not odd at all . . . if I weren't a singer, I thought I was going to be an artist, or a cartoonist. I would always draw pictures & color them, and not just stick figures, lol. Then I thought I'd run a museum. I've always been the artsy type, just the reserved artsy-type. Never in my wildest dreams would I have suspected I'd be doing this. Hell, my only good picture that I remember was on my 10th grade school ID! lol I liked taking pictures of others, not myself. Dec 07 06 12:45 am Link Kalelah - Believe what people are telling (and showing) you...because "it" was there inside of you all along. "It" has only shown itself on the outside for the last few years. "it" is in your eyes and the way you carry yourself and keep yourself in great shape. "Feel the Force" LOL Dec 07 06 12:49 am Link Well, when I was a child I was rather naïve and didn't really understand what modeling was until I was in about third grade. It was then that my mother took me to an orientation for a modeling school in town. It turned out that we couldn't afford it seeing how it was a thousand dollar tuition fee with a hundred dollar a month charge. But it was that little experience that put the thought in my head that I was attractive enough to be a model. I started doing TFP shoots when I was fourteen and am still doing them. Anyway, I'm fifteen years old now and I'm certain that I want to pursue modeling. Wish me luck! Dec 07 06 12:56 am Link mrlouis wrote: I find this one a hard question to answer. Dec 07 06 05:48 am Link I grew up thinking I was ugly. Kids can be cruel. I got into modelling much later in life because I had photographer and fashion designer friends who wanted to use me for their projects. I kept doing it because I felt like a healthy, non-anorexic role model for younger girls interested in this sort of thing AND because it's fun with the right people. Dec 08 06 04:26 pm Link very interesting replies. Can people immediately recognize you as a model & are you treated differently. Living in the DC metro area, I know alot of very pretty girls (models) who say that they find it very hard for men to approach them, either because they are pretty or because they are pretty - guys seem to think they are already taken! Dec 09 06 06:39 am Link Dec 09 06 11:06 am Link Dominick-Destruction wrote: Dec 09 06 11:08 am Link friends kept telling me to get into it and once i started i loved it!! Dec 09 06 12:20 pm Link |
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