Choosing the wrong child or teen modeling portfolio photographer or comp card photographer is very high on the list of career killing mistakes. Why is this? Because the huge majority of them have no idea how to do comp card, portfolio and headshot photographs the right way and the images they produce will invariably do more harm than good.
• 99% all comp card, modeling portfolio and headshot photographers have no idea what top agents and casting directors are looking for when it comes to headshot, comp card and portfolio photographs. Moda Kids Photography has over three decades of experience in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Miami Beach markets, has worked with hundreds of the biggest brands in the world, has won national as well as international photography awards and has been published in top magazines U.S. and worldwide.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and headshot photographers have no idea what kind of styling and wardrobe are needed for top agencies, agency clients and casting directors to take you seriously. Moda Kids Photography knows exactly what is required and will send you a precise list of what to wear and what to bring based on over 30 years of input from top agencies and casting directors.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and head shot photographers have no idea how to instruct models how to move and pose - especially when it comes to beginner teen models and kids. Moda Kids Photography knows exactly how to coach beginner teen models and kids to move and pose so they will look like experienced professionals from day one.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and head shot photographers have no idea how to get good facial expressions and real smiles out of models, especially beginner teen models and kids. Moda Kids Photography knows exactly how to get good facial expressions and real smiles out of anyone and everyone including beginner teens and kids.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and head shot photographers instill very hard to break bad habits in beginner teens and kids when it comes to facial expressions, on-camera movement and posing. Moda Kids Photography knows exactly how to instill good habits into beginner teens and kids so they not only easily get booked with top brands - they get asked back again and again.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and headshot photographers are working with cheap / outdated / prone to breakdown cameras that will not give the best results even when working properly - and very few, if any, of them do not carry a second camera as a backup. Moda Kids Photography uses only high end / state of the art equipment and cameras with dual memory cards in case one goes bad and two camera backup.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and headshot photographers have no idea how to create or find good lighting in studio or on location. Moda Kids has three decades of experience with available light photography as well as state of the art indoor/outdoor studio lighting.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and head shot photographers don't do their own photo printing and, if they do, they are very likely doing it on a cheap - $99 or less - all purpose home printer instead of a pro level - $1200 or more - dedicated photo printer. Moda Kids Photography uses only state of the art dedicated photo printers including the $1295 Epson SureColor P800 - widely acclaimed as the best photo printer in the world.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and headshot photographers do not do image optimization or retouching and, if they do, they are doing it on a small laptop computer screen where it is impossible to even see imperfections, let alone retouch them. Moda Kids Photography does expert image optimization and retouching on a 27" Apple Thunderbolt Display.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and head shot photographers that claim to do 'professional' retouching are actually 'one-click' software that produces plastic 'Barbie Doll' looking skin and overly whitened, overly sharpened 'fried marble' looking eyes. One-click software also destroys the meta-data in the image files which causes the images to look horrendous when printed. Moda Kids Photography does expert image optimization and photo retouching exclusively in Photoshop like all serious professionals do.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and headshot photographers are either amateurs, part timers or both. They have a very slow turnaround time and it is not unusual for them to takes weeks and sometimes even months to deliver comp cards and portfolio photographs. Moda Kids Photography's turnaround time is typically 48 hours - not days, weeks or months.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and head shot photographers have very little training and very little real world experience. Moda Kids Photography has over three decades of real world experience in all major markets.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and head shot photographers have very little credibility and very few, if any, have high level, film television, commercial and modeling industry connections. Moda Kids Photography has all of the above plus an outstanding track record that goes back over thirty years.
• 99% of amateur comp card, modeling portfolio and headshot photographers will display 20 or so of the best photos they have ever taken in their life on their website - some or all of which may have been taken at a photography workshop of some kind where someone else set up the shots which means that the photographer had very little, if anything, to do with creating the images except for pushing the button on the camera - so what you end up getting from him or her will look nowhere near as good as what you saw on their website. Moda Kids Photography consistently delivers world class results and has taught instructional workshops for photographers in New York, Los Angeles, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, San Diego, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Miami, Miami Beach Orlando, and the Caribbean.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and headshot photographers, agency referred or otherwise, don't guarantee their work. Moda Kids Photography guarantees all work and will do a free reshoot if there are any technical problems with the images which has only happened once in over 20 years.
• 99% of agency or 'manager' referred comp card, modeling portfolio and head shot photographers are splitting fees with and/or paying kickbacks to the agencies that refer them to models and talent. Example: You pay and agency $500 for a 'test shoot' and the agent or 'manager' pockets $300 to $400 of it. So what you are really getting is a $100 to $200 photo shoot for $500 which is not only highly unethical it is also specifically illegal in New York, California and Florida. Moda Kids Photography has never split fees with or paid kickbacks to agencies or 'managers'. Not once. Not ever.
Click HERE to see the Florida State Law that makes it illegal for Florida based agencies to charge 'registration fees' or sell photography services, modeling classes, acting lessons, workshops, video audition demo reels, etc. (New York and California have very similar laws.)
Click HERE to request more info, dates and times
• 99% all comp card, modeling portfolio and headshot photographers have no idea what top agents and casting directors are looking for when it comes to headshot, comp card and portfolio photographs. Moda Kids Photography has over three decades of experience in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Miami Beach markets, has worked with hundreds of the biggest brands in the world, has won national as well as international photography awards and has been published in top magazines U.S. and worldwide.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and headshot photographers have no idea what kind of styling and wardrobe are needed for top agencies, agency clients and casting directors to take you seriously. Moda Kids Photography knows exactly what is required and will send you a precise list of what to wear and what to bring based on over 30 years of input from top agencies and casting directors.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and head shot photographers have no idea how to instruct models how to move and pose - especially when it comes to beginner teen models and kids. Moda Kids Photography knows exactly how to coach beginner teen models and kids to move and pose so they will look like experienced professionals from day one.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and head shot photographers have no idea how to get good facial expressions and real smiles out of models, especially beginner teen models and kids. Moda Kids Photography knows exactly how to get good facial expressions and real smiles out of anyone and everyone including beginner teens and kids.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and head shot photographers instill very hard to break bad habits in beginner teens and kids when it comes to facial expressions, on-camera movement and posing. Moda Kids Photography knows exactly how to instill good habits into beginner teens and kids so they not only easily get booked with top brands - they get asked back again and again.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and headshot photographers are working with cheap / outdated / prone to breakdown cameras that will not give the best results even when working properly - and very few, if any, of them do not carry a second camera as a backup. Moda Kids Photography uses only high end / state of the art equipment and cameras with dual memory cards in case one goes bad and two camera backup.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and headshot photographers have no idea how to create or find good lighting in studio or on location. Moda Kids has three decades of experience with available light photography as well as state of the art indoor/outdoor studio lighting.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and head shot photographers don't do their own photo printing and, if they do, they are very likely doing it on a cheap - $99 or less - all purpose home printer instead of a pro level - $1200 or more - dedicated photo printer. Moda Kids Photography uses only state of the art dedicated photo printers including the $1295 Epson SureColor P800 - widely acclaimed as the best photo printer in the world.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and headshot photographers do not do image optimization or retouching and, if they do, they are doing it on a small laptop computer screen where it is impossible to even see imperfections, let alone retouch them. Moda Kids Photography does expert image optimization and retouching on a 27" Apple Thunderbolt Display.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and head shot photographers that claim to do 'professional' retouching are actually 'one-click' software that produces plastic 'Barbie Doll' looking skin and overly whitened, overly sharpened 'fried marble' looking eyes. One-click software also destroys the meta-data in the image files which causes the images to look horrendous when printed. Moda Kids Photography does expert image optimization and photo retouching exclusively in Photoshop like all serious professionals do.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and headshot photographers are either amateurs, part timers or both. They have a very slow turnaround time and it is not unusual for them to takes weeks and sometimes even months to deliver comp cards and portfolio photographs. Moda Kids Photography's turnaround time is typically 48 hours - not days, weeks or months.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and head shot photographers have very little training and very little real world experience. Moda Kids Photography has over three decades of real world experience in all major markets.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and head shot photographers have very little credibility and very few, if any, have high level, film television, commercial and modeling industry connections. Moda Kids Photography has all of the above plus an outstanding track record that goes back over thirty years.
• 99% of amateur comp card, modeling portfolio and headshot photographers will display 20 or so of the best photos they have ever taken in their life on their website - some or all of which may have been taken at a photography workshop of some kind where someone else set up the shots which means that the photographer had very little, if anything, to do with creating the images except for pushing the button on the camera - so what you end up getting from him or her will look nowhere near as good as what you saw on their website. Moda Kids Photography consistently delivers world class results and has taught instructional workshops for photographers in New York, Los Angeles, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, San Diego, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Miami, Miami Beach Orlando, and the Caribbean.
• 99% of comp card, modeling portfolio and headshot photographers, agency referred or otherwise, don't guarantee their work. Moda Kids Photography guarantees all work and will do a free reshoot if there are any technical problems with the images which has only happened once in over 20 years.
• 99% of agency or 'manager' referred comp card, modeling portfolio and head shot photographers are splitting fees with and/or paying kickbacks to the agencies that refer them to models and talent. Example: You pay and agency $500 for a 'test shoot' and the agent or 'manager' pockets $300 to $400 of it. So what you are really getting is a $100 to $200 photo shoot for $500 which is not only highly unethical it is also specifically illegal in New York, California and Florida. Moda Kids Photography has never split fees with or paid kickbacks to agencies or 'managers'. Not once. Not ever.
Click HERE to see the Florida State Law that makes it illegal for Florida based agencies to charge 'registration fees' or sell photography services, modeling classes, acting lessons, workshops, video audition demo reels, etc. (New York and California have very similar laws.)
Click HERE to request more info, dates and times