Models for bookings please send 3 recent images to
aunjerli1@bigpond.com Folios commence at reasonable prices.
Fashion,glamour,pictorial and period costume photographer. Frequently using body painting.Castings and motivational therapy for any model. Now selling to all pictorials National AUST and international London to New York.LA to Paris.
If an image is poor I will say so,if a model is not what she can be I will say so.Honesty is everthing.We hate using photo shop,the model should be trim well posed and not be carrying excess weight.
Simple exercise not starvation does that.
Best advise I can give a model-Work just outside your comfort zone every time, so the circle of the comfort zone increases and you are more relaxed.So if starting remember everyone did.Do so in a test shoots or series of them so errors can be left in a small studio and not on business.Every new format a challenge,but straighten yourself and say "I can do it".
My models often see me exhausted and are scared for me. Unless you shoot every shot as if it is going to be your last, then your cheating yourself and the subject.
I have been beaten,hospitalised,almost killed many times in this business and 4 of my dear friends are memories in rice fields somewhere.We were all young and not so young photojournalists, and i laugh at all the young bucks complaining about not being able to photograph this building etc.
Young faces say "out of the way old man".
Well when you have the mileage and the ability to take the punches, then I'll move over, until then,prove your value.
So I will near kill myself to get you the best chance.
On this site-My comments are based on many years in the profession,some are wary of them.But i am aware that it is the little things,which when improved will secure you success.
Instead of saying "fantastic" say "If this is altered it will help you" I have had 22 models in my own agency and 300 in association with another agency and now just the 180 in a third agency.That agency owner is unable to say NO. So I have to do it for him,so I am the big bad man,i think many can make it,with good make up etc.But also have to be practical.Those with low experience need support.
And if i suggest a model is suited to certain formats and you do not normally do them it is based on sales not pesonal taste.the industry is not about making friends,that is a bi produxct,because pleasing people may be a marketable success but helping talent achieve is the priority.
Aunjerli
www.aunjerli.net