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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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SEPTEMBER 2006

Agency War
Is Tampa Bay Modeling going after model and talent agencies and model scams?

A Tampa agency booker friend is pissed off about your site. What’s this about you models trying to close down agencies. Agencies are a legitimate part of the modeling industry, and they are here to help your career. Just because you models are angry that you’re not booking the jobs that you think that you should be getting, you take it out on the poor agencies.
Are you targeting model agencies in Tampa? If you are, be warned that you could be getting in some trouble.
- Alan from Tampa Bay, Florida

Hi Alan,
No, we are not going to do a thing about model and talent agencies in Tampa Bay. Who are we to say who is professional and who is ethical when we don’t work there and don’t have all of the information?
Hee hee.
What we ARE going to be doing is to make it possible for agency employees and models to make the agencies accountable for what they do. We will enable them to do the work for us while they help themselves and the integrity of the Tampa Bay modeling industry. Don’t be surprised if agencies that are unethical end up closing. I would think that the reputable agencies will be thankful. Tell me, does your booker friend work at an ethical agency? What motivation does he have to be pissed at us if we only intend to make agencies accountable for what they do and say? If an agency is legitimate and they conduct business honestly, then they have nothing to lose through all this and will have a lot to gain.
This said, models that I know book plenty of work through agencies, and so do I. Although I book work through agencies, I also happen to book more work on my own as an independent professional model. I also do not like some things about agencies and do not particularly trust them or the bookers that I know. In my opinion, which many educated professional models also share, model and talent agencies are a working conflict of interest which should be treated as a source of model jobs and little else. Many model and talent agencies in the Tampa Bay area have earned the mistrust and contempt that professional models have toward them. This has nothing to do with who gets more jobs than others. It has to do with all of the B.S. that goes on in agencies and the crap that they put models through. Agencies are a part of the modeling industry, and I believe that they will always have a place in it, but agencies are no longer the only professional way for models to work in the industry, and agencies are understandably insecure and bitter about that.
Now, model consultation scams are another story altogether. We already have that issue figured out, though, and they shouldn’t be much of a threat to the modeling industry by next year.
~ Model Monica Stevens,
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