Before the shoot
A key to looking beautiful is by being healthy. Remember to get a good night’s sleep – otherwise, tiredness will show on your face as well as in your demeanor. The night before a shoot, relax at home and not go for a wild party. The client, the ad agency and the photographer have invested their money as well as time in a shoot and you need to arrive on time – it’s all part of a professional outlook. Supermodels may arrive late and everyone may put up with their tantrums but if you need to make it to the top, you must give your best or people won’t sign you again. Make your work speak for itself.
Before coming for a photo shoot, make sure that all your items are ready and packed, preferably the night before. You may have to carry some stuff from your own wardrobe for a shoot. Talk over all these points with the photographer before the actual shoot date. Make a list of items that you need to carry with you and have them ready a day in advance. This will avoid last minute running around and save everyone a headache. Be reliable – it’s all a part of being a thorough professional.
Sometimes you may need to apply a make up base before going for a shoot. Many a times you may have to do your own make up if the budget does not allow for a separate make up artist. In such cases, if you’ve applied the make up base from home, things will move faster at the shoot. This is not a method of cheating as you may think, considering that studios pay by the hour. A professional model who comes all prepared would be paid more per hour than one who tries to take hours with make up to increase billing time.
In some other cases, when a make up artist is available, you need to walk in with a clean, fresh face devoid of any make up. it may sound a little confusing to you at first, but you’ll understand what to do when, as you go along. When make up is to be done at the shoot, its much simpler to start with no make up at all. So the essential here is communication – a photographer will always appreciate a model with whom he can communicate with ahead of time to avoid last minute hassles.
