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First modeling portfolio picture of a Tampa model on Tampa Bay Modeling. All portfolio photographs, unless otherwise noted, by C. A. Passinault, lead photographer for Aurora PhotoArts Tampa Photography and Design, as well as Director of Tampa Bay Modeling. C. A. Passinault is a top photographer, as well as a modeling expert.Second model photograph on Tampa Bay Modeling. Click on the image for an anecdote of the modeling shoot which produced this picture.In this third picture, you can see why the Tampa Bay area is one of the best in the world for modeling portfolio development work. Photograph by Tampa photographer C. A. Passinault.Image four of our online portfolio of another Tampa model. This photograph, if we are not mistaken, was taken on location in the Tampa Bay area. The best modeling portfolio photographs are location shots.This is another great picture. This is the fifth model photograph on Tampa Bay Modeling. Pictures featured in our thumbnail array may not be the same as those of models which are in our featured model section, but often, they are one and the same.Unmatched in any Florida modeling market. The quality of this image is excellent! Photograph by C. A. Passinault, our resident photographer and modeling expert.Another top Tampa model gets their look on. The best models can obtain a wide range of looks, as you can see when you look at other pictures of this model!Is it any wonder why more and more companies and art directors are booking independent models without going through an agency? Proof that you can be a professional model, with a lucrative career, without being dependent upon an agency to find and book modeling jobs!Another awesome photograph of a Tampa model by modeling photographer C. A. Passinault, lead photographer Aurora PhotoArts, and director of Tampa Bay Modeling.For modeling portfolio work in the Tampa Bay area, nothing beats location work. Studio photography is not nearly as cost effective, or appropriate, for modeling portfolio work.Keep in mind that this picture, for a modeling portfolio, was taken by a qualified modeling portfolio photographer, C. A. Passinault, for a specialized, professional market, which is modeling. A wedding photographer or a portrait studio will not be able to give models what they need for an effective modeling portfolio, as you have to know what you are doing!This is the 12th picture in our Tampa Bay Modeling online portfolio. Yet another Tampa model shows a marketable look in their portfolio. The best models are capable of the most looks, and are not locked into a single look!Agency model or independent model? It doesnt matter, anymore, especially in Tampa Bay. Professional models like this one can be booked without going through an agency, saving both the model and the job agency fees.Modeling portfolios need at least six looks, and by looks, we mean different looks. A composite cards needs at least five, on average, with a headshot on the front, and four different looks on the back of the comp card. This Tampa model is demonstrating a marketable look right now, in this photography. Picture by C. A. Passinault.
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OCTOBER 2006

Tampa Bay’s Top Scams
What are the top model scams in Tampa Bay? To what extent is Tampa Bay Modeling going to fight them?

Here is a question for your model scam fighting experts at Tampa Bay Modeling. Let’s say that I am a model looking to avoid scams. What are the top ones that I should watch out for?
- Hunter from Saint Pete Beach, Florida

Hmmmmmm....... It used to be MODEL JOB SCAMS, but it is no longer that simple. Model agency and model management scams work because of the lure that they use, which is the promise of alleged model jobs and the ability to make “big” money. Hey, if you look good, then you can make a lot of easy money! Whatever. It is never that simple. If you have the looks that a model needs, that is only one part of working in the industry as a model. There is a whole lot more to it than that, and it is the reason that the Tampa Bay Modeling site exists and is here to help you at no charge!
MODEL PHOTOGRAPHY SCAMS were a major threat a couple of years ago, and they still can be dangerous, but the models shut many of the ones in Tampa Bay down or severely crippled the ones which still exist; most of them have been reduced to jokes. Oh, and since almost all TFP’s are done my amateur photographers and men with questionable motives, I shouldn’t have to tell you to stay away from those. Don’t waste your time and potentially risk your career! We keep hearing reports about TFP photographers trying to hit on models. We even have a few stories of these so-called professionals who offer free shoots molesting and raping models.
MODEL AGENCY SCAMS are still around in this market, but since most of the smart models book work on their own and don’t have to depend upon agencies, they are not that much of a threat to those of us who know about them.
Our analysts (most of whom are also top models who work and play in the industry) have now determined that the top model scam in the Tampa Bay market are MODEL CONSULTATION SCAMS, which bait models with the promises of jobs without the potential risks of being licensed as an agency. There was a local agency notorious for advertising model jobs in the classifieds as bait to sell model photography, and they were sued and lost their agency license. The operation became a model consultation/ management operation which does the exact same thing but avoids calling themselves an agency. They still advertise model jobs and lucrative model and acting careers in the paper, too (and all of these assholes in the papers, despite their denials, know who is running the ads). Is this business the worst of its kind in the Tampa Bay market? No, not by a long shot. There is a more dangerous model consultation scam in Tampa Bay. This model consultation scam tells models that they have lots of jobs to offer them and that they cannot refer the models to the jobs (free of charge, of course, since they are not an agency) UNLESS the model buys portfolio photography packages and composite cards from them (because they don’t know how good of a model they are unless they work with them, of course, and they will only refer good models to these so-called jobs). The big secret that they don’t want you to know? That they are trying to sell information that they have stolen from others. Many of the “jobs” are from free model job boards on the Internet that anyone can access at no cost, and most of the information that they “teach” models is stolen from Independent Modeling and other free model resource sites (I wouldn’t be surprised if they start ripping us off, too). Want to know how “good” of a model that I am? Look at my portfolio, BITCH! Here are my composite cards, which are, by the way, excellent, despite what you tell me since they help me book work on my own all of the time. If someone criticizes the modeling career tools that you use, you only have to look at what they are trying to sell you. In this case, they are trying to sell you tools that are INFERIOR in every way, and some models are tricked into buying those services because they figure that they can easily make the money back by booking those supposed jobs that only “they” can refer them to. Let me tell you that their photography is HORRID and their comp cards are absolute CRAP. If you need photography services, you need to seek out someone who does that for a living, like a professional photographer; model agencies and model consultants are far less qualified to tell you what you need in photography and composite card services because they are not in business to do this (and if they are, there is something really wrong). For more about these people, check out this LETTER and THIS LETTER from a previous Mail Bag.
So, what is the BIG FLAW with these model consultation scams? Consider the following: model jobs are for professional models only, and aspiring models have no business booking them or trying to book them. How do these model consultants make money? Well, they make it by selling photography and other services that they are not upfront with when luring models in. If the model is an established professional, then they already have a portfolio and composite cards, and they will not need whatever it is that they are selling. If the model is new, then the job may not appreciate the model consultant referring amateurs to them. See the CONFLICT? The model consultant business should not use the promise of jobs when trying to attract aspiring models because it is an obvious conflict of interest. They should market whatever services that they are really selling, which would make them a legitimate business because they are honest about what they are doing. I’ve seen a few advertise that the models would be referred to the jobs free of charge if they already had a portfolio and composite cards, but come on here, who in the hell are they kidding? If this were true, then they would be working for free, and anyone working for free like that has poor business sense. Would you trust your career to someone who obviously does not have any clue what they are doing? NO! I’m guessing that you already guessed the catch: No matter WHO you are and WHAT you are working with in regards to your portfolio and other modeling career tools, they are going to find something wrong with them. You will never be good enough no matter what. How else are they going to make money? I am sure that they will smile and refer you to a model job without making a dime off of you out of the goodness of their heart.
You can probably guess that I’m one of the ones who are smart enough to avoid these characters. Many models, though, are not, and that’s sad.
Regarding model consultation scams, I would have to say that they may have a hard time selling advice, information, and career tools to models when better information is available on model resource sites (Tampa Bay Modeling, Independent Modeling, and Florida Models) free of charge and qualified professionals who make a living doing things like photography and composite card services offer more value and the tools that models really need!
Are we going to directly fight model scams and take it to the streets? No. What they are doing will catch up to them regardless of what we do. We will not directly fight these assholes. We will, instead, concentrate on helping models and others avoid them by educating them.
As for Independent Modeling, they are aware that they are being ripped off by these people stealing from them, and have come up with a solution. What is it? Well, I won’t say it here, but I will say that it will cause all of the model consultation scams in Tampa Bay to lose at least 75% of their business by the fall of 2007, and that is great news for the real professionals and the models who have been ripped off in the industry!
~ Model Monica Stevens,
Tampa Bay Modeling Mail Bag Editor

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