If you are short, petite, or curvy doesn’t mean you can’t model. You might never be a supermodel, but you can be a great glamour model. You can enjoy making some nice extra cash as a model and gain some editorial, commercial, and magazine and editorial work along the way and maybe meet some great friends too. But everything starts with a great portfolio. Glamour Photographers hire models all the time, but you have to choose the right ones.
The PhotoShoot can be either a paid shoot (where the model gets paid either on an hourly basis or a flat fee) or TFP (trade Time for Prints), or TFCD (trade Time for CD-ROM images). In the TFP or TFCD arrangement no money changes hands. It is just a trade or swap. The glamour photographer invests his/her time, expertise and equipment, and the model invests his/her time. Thus, they can create some content together that both parties can use to further their own professional goals, respectively. Stock Photo Agencies sometimes commission a photographer to take certain pictures that can then be sold or licensed to different companies for use in advertising and marketing materials.
1. Be careful which photographs you download and show. It might be intriguing to only put sexy or bikini shots up, but by doing this you limit your audience.
2. Be honest and up front with your goals. Don’t work with photographers who don’t have any goals if you take modeling seriously. Make goals, say ” I want to be a in a magazine in a year.” Then focus on that goal and the type of magazines that might be easy access to getting inside of.
3. Finding a magazine. If you are 5 foot there is still a magazine out there for you. Consider these types of magazines because modeling is more than Playboy and Vogue.
4. Have a point when you shoot, rip out magazines samples, style the hair, the clothing, the makeup, think deeper about your shoots because your images will sell you. They speak without words about the type of model you are…and most importantly about where you are going.
Breaking into the glamour modeling industry requires a lot more than beauty. It requires dedication, smarts and perseverance.


