National Cleavage Day UK Photos

It may be an April 1st joke but National Cleavage Day is trending very highly on Twitter at the moment. From Wikipedia National Cleavage Day is an event started in South Africa but now come to the UK as well supported (!) by Wonderbra. Photos of our models for National Cleavage Day UK are below.

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Some recent model portfolio photo shoot shots

These are a few shots from a recent shoot with Safia

Style Secrets at Hempstead Valley 21-23 October 2010

Models3 have supplied the models for the catwalk shows at the Hempstead Valley Style Secrets shows taking place daily at the shopping centre from 21-23 October 2010. Come along to the centre to see the shows, for more info click on the link below

http://www.hempsteadvalley.com/events/style-secrets-free-fashion-event-21st-to-23rd-october

The Importance of Posing!

Here are 2 shots from a location model shoot that show how important the right pose is. The first shot was taken deliberately to show how the figure looks when no effort is taken to pose.

The next shot was taken with the model now adopting a pose that flatters the figure and makes a huge difference to the final shot.

Any photographer should be able to pose their model to make the shot work best.

Do I need to pay for pictures for a portfolio/Paying for Copyright of Photos?

A common answer you may find is no but unfortunately like many things you get what you pay for. We all have bills that need to be paid but a photo shoot does not need to cost a fortune. Our prices for model test shoots & model portfolio starter packages are very reasonably priced and allow you to get a good selection of pictures to start your portfolio. Some portfolio photo shoots may be promoted as being free but you then have to pay £1000 for photos or a CD of images after the shoot at a hard sell sales presentation.

I've done a photo shoot but don't want anyone to see the photos?

Sometimes we are asked by models who have done a photo shoot but don't want anyone to see the photos.

Once you have done any photo shoot the photographer owns the copyright to the images and can use them as they wish. If you do not want photos to be seen then the safest option is not to pose for them in the first place.
 
If you have been paid for a shoot and the images published then the chances of getting them removed are virtually nil. However most models want as many people to see their photos as possible so this is not an issue.
 
More modelling advice can be found on our website

Copyright and Licence for use

After the post yesterday about the misleading advice from Edge models I thought it would be of benefit to highlight the difference between copyright and licence to use photos.

No professional photographers routinely hand over copyright to their clients. In the main they grant a limited licence to use the photos for the agreed use; they do not give you the copyright. If a different use is required then often a different fee will be paid. For example the fee for use of a photo for a small magazine advert would be different to the fee for a worldwide billboard campaign.