Welcome to Framed Boston. We have been shooting female agency models since 1966. Friends sister was a top Ford Agency Model as was a very good friend in mid 1970s thru 1980s was one of the very top models in the USA appearing on the side of all Boston T Busses and Trains and banners inside the old Boston Garden. Born to a Genius mom and Dad (198 Q) we did Think Tank work and if we couldn’t out think a room full of fellow Genius types collectively by ourselves it would have bothered me.
For model photography and supermodel success common sense is more important and we nave known no-one in our lives with more. Blessed to be at the top of the food tree. I can still remember a good 200 days in detail before I turned 3. By the age of 3 I was printing and reading books. By 4 years of age I was reading encyclopedias and learning calculus. By kindergarten I had already read over 200 books and playing almost all sports but Lacrosse. Started playing Chess at 4 and beat 13 Chess Masters when I went with a friend to New York but was boring just sitting for hours so I signed up after not playing Chess in over 8 years and kicked every ass in short order, I could think 60 moves ahead like I was washing my hands as a youngster.
I was given a medium format camera as a toy and took some pictures that were so expensive that Santa bought me an instamatic and then I started shooting hamsters to horses, when an agency model who owned a horse asked if I would shoot her. Started bragging her my punk brother’s friend shoots better pictures than the agency photographers. I was on my way. I have shot just about every theme of modeling but prefer glamour for the serious income potential and talent stands out.
To date I have shot over 7600 models of which 3500 models were our models versus a clients. A good 45 million images. Tossed boxes of negatives of some great location and sport shots away but now have a serious collection of digital.
We are an expert at body language which is huge for model photography. Modeling is about confidence to attitude and posture. We took up acting and became awesome at speaking with the help of having friends video tape my speaking at functions, taking classes on speech and studying actors on tv. I also teach script writing.
I aways had day jobs and designed many top software programs still used today and one advertised on TV! Two of the 4 designers of the Internet are personal friends of mine. I moved on to WordPress so I could make model web sites and do promotion that only websites can provide. I have extensive experience in shooting and editing video and have to relearn After Effects for so much has changed in 25 years.
If a model wants the very best possible help for success, that would be us. We can train any supermodel and if you goal is glamour to acting then we are interested. We can shoot model cable TV or You Tube clips to get YOU noticed. If we work with you we do not charge.
For success in glamour modeling towards a career to becoming a supermodelyou will need:
A professional website
Learn to do your own awesome makeup
Work on awesome fitness
Work on awesome flexibility
Have access to an awesome collection of name brand outfits
Study Arnolds 6 rules of success on YOU TUBE which we recommended 5 of his rules for decades
Decide who you want to be and accept failures along the way to high level success
Do not use your real last name ever for your modeling and a separate first name may work best as well
Study Models.com and career success of supermodels
Understand how modeling agencies work and be proactive and contact potential clients
Understand Modeling Agencies are in business to make them money and their choices for your images may not be the images you need for your success showcasing the need for your own website and interaction with potential clients and name brands yourself
Understand the purpose of a model image
Understand multiple layers of clothing or long dresses are ways to kill your modeling career.
Understand how to create a proper model portfolio for your website and SEO (Sales Engine Optimization) so you can become well known around the world.
Stay clear of those calling themselves PUBLISHED. Pros quantify and never call themselves published, yet there are tons scam artists and pretending pros decided they go against the 3 professional photography associations in the US and 7 associations at least in Europe, who all consider publications distributing on Facebook, Instagram ,etc. as clearly NOT PUBLISHED. The courts in the USA have always agreed with the Photography Associations.
Learn the basics of healthy hair, proper nail tones and colors to use and how to pose your hair while modeling for hair needs to be posed for every shot taken as well.
Learn to act for at least small chit chat and have promo video on your website
You talent and
We suggest creating like we have Cable TV videos that local cable tv stations have a high interest in.h
Create a You Tube Channel
Find a photographer who clearly can tell you how they have made others successful and how they can make your successful. Clearly ask them the purpose of a model image as well.
Ask who, what when, where, why and how for all decisions and reference checks. Many if not most of reference checks are total bullshit. Many on sites like Model Mayhem, Instagram or Facebook are pretending to be female models. Instagram and Facebook do no checking and Instagram has allowed lies and models pretending to be 3 different models for their prostitution ways, etc. Mass Model help is an example of one model pretending to be many others and making lies allowed to stay until one of the photographers sent a legal notice for her to cease. This criminal with numerous felony to federal felony actions still operates on a model help site along with the male in his late 70s who has pretended to be a female since 2009 anyway.
We have maintained the highest level of professionalism since the 60s and a fitness agency model we shot with many times who left her daytime job for all her coworkers said she was a bitch and could not be someone they interfaced with. We certainly see why for this model we shot with 10 times and we had thousands of awesome images of with theft of our ideas and scamming us on use of images so she could be the person disliked in her past professional career. Do your homework for most info out there everywhere since the beginning of time for all trades is made up bullshit.
A model turned questionable model agency made a habit of lies and mistruths on so many photographers scamming models. Stick with legit well known agencies if you decide on becoming an agency model.
For model success you need like ourselves someone who knows all about body language, proper posing and how to make the best use of your time and how the gal next door can make thousands to millions like we have done.
We were offered one of Victoria’s Secret top paying photographer jobs in 2004 and to be one of their modeling scouts based on us shooting some high end models from the LA Agencies on the past. Few on planet earth have our experience to help modeling success like we can do. Common sense is huge and we know of no-one with more common sense ever than ourself. Blessed. Been born with high intelligence and common sense. Huge for your success.
Study every shoot you do with a pro so you learn and grow.
We can say now we know of at least one model who could become a career model and perhaps a TOP supermodel if they have the skill sets and work ethic. So far we see them doing everything towards this goal ineffectively Time waits for noon. You wait and you fail. Train like an Olympian and study your trade!