Tampa Modeling Portfolios - Model testing, modeling portfolio photography, modeling composite cards, modeling web comps, modeling portfolios, and all the professional tools that models need for an effective modeling career.

By Aurora PhotoArts Tampa Photography and Design. Specializing in modeling portfolios since 2001.

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THE TOP VALUE IN TAMPA MODELING PORTFOLIOS, COMPOSITE CARDS, AND OTHER MODELING CAREER TOOLS, AND WE CAN BACK UP THOSE CLAIMS.

Our specialized services in Tampa modeling portfolios are from qualified modeling portfolio photographers, composite card designers, and modeling experts. We offer a total career solution for both new models and professional models, and we provide models with the effective tools that they need to be able to market their modeling careers, and to be able to compete against other models. Our lead modeling portfolio photographer and composite card designer, C. A. Passinault, is one of the top modeling portfolio photographers in Florida, as well as one of the leading modeling experts in the United States, owning, publishing, and writing for Independent Modeling, Tampa Bay Modeling, and other modeling resource web sites. All things considered, there is no photographer, or photography company, in the world who can offer what we offer to models. Find out more, today, with a free, no-obligation consultation, where your questions can be answered, and where we can demonstrate the advantages, and the value, of what we have to offer.

Tampa Modeling Portfolios News 05/03/12 - In preparation for the launch of our new Mosaic Class marketing and support site, we have removed the interlink array between the Tampa Modeling Portfolios site and the other Aurora PhotoArts sites; our sites will now rarely link to each other, which should simplify things and help to eliminate any misunderstandings. This site, like the others, will now be self-contained, and will rely upon relevant, well-organized content.

Tampa Modeling Portfolios News 11/11/10 - It's almost here. The Tampa Modeling Portfolios Aurora PhotoArts photography and design services marketing web site is about to experience a major upgrade, with lots of new content, an online portfolio of our Tampa modeling portfolio photography, and all new sections! The new web site will be a state of the art Venus 3 Venus Class photography marketing web site, and will be fully interconnected with the main Aurora PhotoArts Tampa Photography and Design marketing site (the present site is a simple placeholder, and nothing compared to what is coming). We ARE the TOP value in modeling portfolios and modeling portfolio photography in the Tampa Bay area, we can prove it, and we are working to make sure that both experienced and aspiring models know that. Speaking of aspiring models, Aurora PhotoArts has launched its effective Espy model testing program for 2010. Originally proven in 2003, the new Espy Tampa model testing program will be one of the best model testing and photography services in the United States. This new Espy model testing program has bee overhauled, and updated for 2010, with proven concepts expanded, and new, exciting features added. Stay tuned......

The Best Value In Tampa Modeling Portfolios Is Here!

To schedule a free consultation, call client services at (813) 546-0092 today. Consultations are valuable in the Tampa Bay area, our representative will answer any modeling questions that you have, and there is no obligation to buy any services.
Aurora PhotoArts Tampa Photography and Design specializes in modeling and talent photography, especially modeling portfolios, modeling portfolio photography, model testing services, and modeling composite cards, or zeds. Their lead photographer, Tampa photographer and modeling expert C. A. Passinault, leads the market in creating effective, professional modeling portfolios at the best value for aspiring and professional models!
To check out examples of the photography work of C. A. Passinault and Aurora PhotoArts, check out our Tampa photography site. Aurora PhotoArts is also the Tampa market leader for actor and talent headshots and headshot photography services, which you can see at our Tampa headshots web site.
We also invest in our modeling and talent resource sites. For free modeling information, and to see more of our modeling portfolio photography work, check out our talent resource sites at Tampa Bay Modeling and Independent Modeling!
All photography and design services are guaranteed for quality. Our photographers do not watch a clock, and we do not charge by the hour. We charge by the modeling photography session. We take our time and do the job right, giving you effective, quality pictures that you can use in your modeling career. Rushed photography work is often compromised in quality.
References and agency referrals available upon request.

Tips On Investing In An Effective Modeling Portfolio

1. There is no way around the requirement of having an effective, professional modeling portfolio. Regardless of what you do to establish, or work, your modeling career, there is one constant. You HAVE to have a modeling portfolio in order to market your looks, and in order to get modeling jobs. A modeling portfolio is an investment into your career as a model, and you will only get our of your career what you put into it. Whether you find and book modeling jobs on your own as an independent model, or you go through modeling agencies to obtain modeling work (and smart models do both), you have to have a professional modeling portfolio. You will need to find a professional photographer or a photography company for that portfolio too, and one which specializes specifically in modeling portfolios. Wedding photographers, amateur photographers (especially the ones working off of freebie web site profiles and who have not invested in their careers), cheap photographers, portrait photographers, and other photographers will not be able to give you what you need. Neither will a modeling agency, since they are not in the modeling portfolio business. Modeling and talent agencies are only in business to work for models, and to find them work. In Florida, it is against the law for agencies to sell models ANYTHING, or to make money referring models to photographers. It is also unethical, and unprofessional.

2. Invest in the best value in modeling portfolio photography and composite cards, not the lowest priced. You get what you pay for. Modeling is a business. Models are sole proprietor businesses, and need effective careers tools for them to be able to get work. If you invest in a cheap portfolio or have a friend take pictures for your modeling portfolio, you are not going to be able to compete against professional models, models who have invested in effective portfolio. You will not be able to get work in the modeling industry, regardless of how hard you work, if you push ineffective, cheap, tacky tools.

3. Invest in your modeling portfolio before going to any modeling agency. Modeling and talent agencies are only in business to find work for models, and are not in the modeling portfolio business. They will not be able to advise you like a professional photographer, a photographer who specializes in modeling portfolio photography, can. Go to the professional source for what you need, and then go to the modeling agencies after you have your portfolio and the other career tools that you will need. Not only do you have a choice on getting the portfolio that you will need, but it is the only way to guarantee that the agency will work for you, like they are supposed to, and not make money by selling you a portfolio, and then have no incentive to find you work, since they already made their money by selling you a modeling portfolio.
NEVER BUY ANYTHING FROM A MODELING AGENCY, and NEVER BUY ANY SERVICES FROM ANYONE, OR ANY PHOTOGRAPHER, WHO THEY REFER YOU TO. It is the only way that you can guarantee that they will only make money by finding you modeling jobs.
Go to the source for what you need. Invest in your modeling portfolio from a professional modeling portfolio photographer or photography company who is not affiliated with any modeling agencies. That’s what a modeling portfolio photographer is in business to do. Agencies will not be able to give your better services, or guidance, because they are only in business to find jobs for the models who they work for.

4. Unless you are going for a modeling career in a limited modeling market, stay away from provocative pictures in your portfolio. A modeling portfolio should make you as marketable as possible! Never invest in a modeling portfolio from a photographer who insists that you need to look sexy, that you have to pose in provocative poses, that you need to pose in skimpy bikinis, or that you need to take your clothes off in order to model. Pictures which are controversial, or which undermine your marketability in the mainstream modeling market, have no business being in your modeling portfolio, unless you are building a portfolio for the more limited glamour or nude modeling market. Glamour, provocative, and nude modeling is not for beginners, is high-risk work, and it takes years of professional experience to negotiate such markets. Additionally, once a picture is taken, it is forever. You can’t take it back, or control how it will be used.
A good rule of thumb for any modeling portfolio is to only obtain pictures which you would not hesitate to show to your parents, your family, or children. If you have reservations, it is too risky to use in your modeling portfolio, and could even cost you work!
If any photographer insists that these types of pictures are needed for your modeling portfolio, walk away and find another photographer. They don’t know what they are doing, regardless of how good their work may look, and will harm your modeling career more than help it.

5. Teen modeling web sites are not recommended for any models, and are no way to obtain a modeling portfolio. Underage, teen girls have no business posing in provocative poses, in skimpy bikinis, or in lingerie. A professional modeling portfolio is an investment, and you will never be able to build one while getting paid. Teen modeling web sites exploit underage girls, in our opinion, and are used for purposes other than legitimate modeling. Stay away from any photographer who is affiliated with teen modeling web sites, any photographer who offers to take pictures of you and publishes your pictures on web sites that you get paid from, or any photographer who offers to pay you while they build your portfolio (this is especially true if you are a young girl).
Additionally, see the above tip about high-risk pictures in modeling portfolios.

6. Six Looks are what you will need to start out your portfolio. You will need at least five looks for a standard composite card. Modeling is a visual form of marketing, and for the professional model, the way that they look can represent the “character”, or role in a modeling jobs. The best, and most marketable models, are almost chameleon-like in the different ways that they can look; they can pull off a wide range of looks. The more range of looks that can be achieved, with the help of makeup artists, haor stylists, and fashion consultants, of course, the more marketable the model is.
A good modeling portfolio shows a diverse number of different looks that the model can achieve. The more diverse the demonstrated looks, the more chance that the model has to convince an art director or modeling jobs that they have the look that is needed to represent their company, product, service, advertising concept, or marketing campaign. The model will book the job as a result.

7. Composite cards are a lot like the business card of a model. They are usually 5 X 7 inches, have pictures on both sides, and have the name and the stats of the model printed on them. The usual modeling composite card has five looks from the portfolio of the model printed on it, and these looks are relevant for the modeling market that the composite card is optimized for. Some models have a variety of different composite cards, and target market them for different modeling markets.
Composite cards are mailed out to modeling jobs in an effort to help the model land a go-see, also known as an audition. During the go-see, the model is interviewed by the art director or the professional who is in charge of securing models for the job, and the full modeling portfolio of the model is then reviewed as the model is considered for the job.

Tampa Modeling Portfolios

Welcome to Tampa modeling portfolios, a specialty modeling career services site by Aurora PhotoArts Tampa Photography and Design. Led by Aurora PhotoArts lead photographer C. A. Passinault, who is also a modeling and talent expert, as well as a casting director, this modeling portfolio services web site was created to promote the services that Aurora PhotoArts has long been famous for: proving the absolute best value in the Tampa Bay photography and design services market for models who are in the market for an effective modeling portfolio, composite cards (also called zed cards), and other tools that they have to have for their professional modeling careers.
There is no way around it. If you want a career as a professional model, you have to have a professional modeling portfolio to market your looks to prospective modeling jobs. There are no shortcuts, either. If you look for the lowest priced portfolio photography services, you will end up with a modeling portfolio which is not effective, and will not be able to compete against professional models who have invested in effective modeling portfolios and composite cards.

PUBLISHED 04/03/10
UPDATED 05/03/12

Tampa Modeling Portfolios - Model testing, modeling portfolio photography, modeling composite cards, modeling web comps, modeling portfolios, and all the professional tools that models need for an effective modeling career.

ONLINE 09/01/09