Category Archives: Production

How to Convince Your Client to Choose the Best Photographs

By Paul Kerins | Published: February 9, 2012

Convincing the Client, How to Convince Your Client Which Photographs are the Best Choices. I personally have no idea how many images I have created to date, let alone how many photographs I have edited to find the best ones; several hundreds of thousands at least. In the past scouring over contact sheets fresh from [...]

Casting Models – The Interview, What to Look for in the Model’s Portfolio, Booking and Options.

By Paul Kerins | Published: November 21, 2011

Casting Models – Part Three Talking to the model during the interview The personality of the model is important of course, after all you could spending several hours or even several days working with them. It helps to be a good judge of character since the typical interview with a model on a casting can [...]

Casting Models – Where to Hold Castings, plus Casting for Multi-Person Layouts

By Paul Kerins | Published: November 17, 2011

Casting Models – Part Two Where to hold your model castings I have held model castings in hotels, my flat, the stylist’s flat, the client’s office, in a cafe, in my studios, and in rentals studios, but the best place to hold model castings in my opinion is in the modelling agencies . The reasons [...]

Casting Models – Preparing for Castings and Working with Modelling Agencies

By Paul Kerins | Published: November 14, 2011

Casting Models – Part One Introduction One of the things that I found interesting about my job is the sheer number of people I have met over the years. Especially when I lived and worked in larger markets like Paris and Milan. The high turn over of people that come into these markets when a [...]