1. Standards have dropped
in the Tampa modeling industry
2. Agency TFP and
dumping the modeling portfolio market
3. The difference
between TFP and professional collaboration
4. Amateurs
pretending to be professionals
5. Studio training wheels
6. Stumbling in the light
7. The aftermath
By C.
A. Passinault, Director of Tampa Bay Modeling
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The
Aftermath
So, what next?
Well, they are not going to like this.
Regarding the rampant abuse of TFP by amateurs in the Tampa Bay market,
I am going to step up for all professionals in the industry. Although
professional models who are smart, and who invest in professional portfolios
and composite cards, enjoy the ignorance of the TFP model, as TFP models
cannot compete with them, with photographers it is a different story.
TFP models are going down, especially those
stupid little girls who convince themselves that they are models and have
attitudes which telegraph their insecurities. I find these so-called models
annoying, and I’m going to teach them a lesson and educate them,
humbling them in the process. Although their reckless actions undermine
their careers, and those models are their own worst enemy, their attitudes,
and the misconceptions that they spread, cripple the integrity of the
industry AND give my independent models a bad name. This tends to piss
me off; if they are not working with us, they are against us. If they
really are serious about becoming a model, they are going to find out,
the hard way, that they HAVE to invest in a portfolio and professional-level
modeling career tools, like composite cards, from qualified professionals
(and NOT necessarily me. I’m at the point right now, after witnessing
the chaos and the disrespectful attitudes of the amateurs in the market,
where I really don’t care who they get their career tools from as
long as it is someone who will give them professional, effective ones,
and as long as they have to invest in their careers!) . Go right ahead;
take snapshots of yourself on your cell phone camera and post your “portfolio”
on some free online profile. Although you cannot have much of a career
that way, and you only get out of your modeling career what you put into
it, I am going to make sure that these clueless models learn their lesson.
How? Read on......
In the next few years, those who keep tabs on my photography company and
my modeling web sites are going to notice a massive increase in the number
of models who I work with. I am going to flood the Tampa Bay modeling
market with so many professional models that the standards will be forced
to go up. This new generation of professional independent models will
be trained by me, using tactics and tools from my modeling resource sites,
like Independent Modeling and Tampa Bay Modeling. The models who are my
clients will have the best, highest quality, and most effective modeling
career tools in the industry, and few models, even the agency-exclusive
models, will be able to compete with them. I’m going to make sure
that my models book all of the modeling jobs, and I’ll be more than
happy to rub it in the faces of those ignorant TFP models. They will learn
their lessons, and both balance and integrity will be restored in the
market as the false economy of modeling anarchy and TFP becomes known
(I'm sure that it will become known eventually, but I'm not waiting for
it to happen naturally. I'm going to be a catalyst, and will accelerate
the process along).
Hell, since professional actors tend to be the most supportive of my endeavors,
those who are model-worthy may even become my secret weapons. I might
be inclined to help bridge actors and talent into the modeling industry,
and few models will be able to compete with these triple-threat (or more)
polytalented models (a polytalented model, statistically, is a model who
is 1 in 100,000, and I have several of them in my professional roster.
A polytalented model is a model who has talent in three or more professional
fields, such as singing, acting, dancing, etc. One of my best friends,
Ann Poonkasem, is one such polytalented model; she models, sings, acts,
dances, and is also professionally skilled in other fields of the entertainment
industry. I know of another polytalented model who has worked in the Tampa
Bay market, and who is NOT affiliated with me, as I barely know her and
have never worked with her, and her name is Reby. Reby is a really talented
model, as well as talented in other entertainment fields, although, in
my opinion, she undermines the marketability of her career by having nudes
all over the Internet. Knowing this, I had no desire to work with her
or to get to know her; This is one of the few instances where someone
did not sell themselves short. Now, in 2013, looking back, I still have
no regrets about not working with her. I know what I am doing. There are
other reasons, too, but that was the top one. Even without her making
what I consider to be mistakes, even someone like Reby would have a hard
time competing against what I will be bringing to the market, and it is
as it should be.).
The best of those models will become a part of my upcoming professional
modeling organization. I’m looking at numbers of more than a hundred
top models joining a year, and if you consider that these few will be
the cream of the crop of those models who I work with, you can begin to
understand what I mean when I say that I will be flooding the market.
This market will be so saturated with professional models using my tools
and tactics that even the modeling agencies will have a tough time booking
the models who they represent into jobs; the agencies will have a tough
time finding jobs when I get done with the market (there are over five
different projects all intersecting and supporting each other which will
make this possible. When the dust settles, agency models will be at a
disadvantage, and any photographer who is affiliated with any agency is
going to have serious credibility issues. The market will be flipped).
If people have a hard time competing with me, imagine how hard it will
be to compete with professionals equipped with my tools. The F-ing primitives
are going down!
Primitives? Yes, they are, in my opinion. You have a bunch of clueless
amateurs pretending to be professionals, and who do not know what they
are doing, introducing anarchy into the industry. These amateurs use freebie
social media sites and TFP, and are not able to establish a career. I’m
about to show these people just how little that they know, and force them
to adapt to the standard which I will introduce to the market, with the
help of thousands of models who come from my work. This is war,
and the primitives will not be able to compete against what is coming,
especially with my modeling resource sites backing my models up and enhancing
their efforts.
Which brings us back to the amateur photographers and their photography
shootout events.
Although I did not go with the intention of spying on anyone, what I saw
when I was there convinced me that standards need to be set in the market
by qualified professionals who actually know what they are doing. If you
allow children to wave around loaded guns, someone will get hurt. Being
treated rudely was just a bonus, however, and helped motivate me to do
something. So, I will be putting together a series of modeling, photography,
and modeling photography events.
Currently, there are four or five regular modeling photography events
in the Tampa Bay area, and I don’t think that a single one of them
is worth it. Among the best is a glamour modeling photography workshop
which is run by a photographer whom I have serious questions about regarding
his ethics (and this event which I attended was not his). His focus on
glamour modeling and high-risk modeling is highly questionable, too. There
either was, or still is, a series of modeling photography shootout events
held at a nudist colony, too (I love how these skanky, tacky people portray
themselves as “artists”, and try to pass off exploitation
as art. Sure, we have freedoms in this country, and have a right to pursue
what we feel is art, but these extremists are the defilers of freedom,
in my educated opinion, and because they persist on crossing the line
of good taste, and as they try to speak for true artists, our rights are
slowly being taken away. Art, and the integrity of art, deserves the utmost
respect and education). Obviously, there needs to be something better,
and I’m in the position to do something about it.
The really cool thing is that I’ve put 10 years of investment into
support infrastructure and resources. None of these people have the exposure
and the profile that I do. Do you suppose that they will be able to compete
with any event backed by Tampa Bay Modeling, Independent Modeling, Florida
Models, Advanced Model, and Frontier Pop?
I’ll start by having my photography association, the Tampa
Bay Photography Society, produce a series of modeling photography
shootouts. I’m working on the format and the branding for now, and
that’s it. When it starts, though, it’s game-over for all
of the others.
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