Most Essential Modelling Tips From America's Next Top Model

Well that was Tyra, you'll need to figure out yours. You also have to find a lot of great angles as possible because you can't just tell a photographer to take a picture at a single angle only because it is your best angle. Especially if you want to be a model, you have to look good at a lot of angles.

No matter how great the setup, lighting and everything the photo will not work if you are DEAD in the eyes. We need to make sure that our eyes tell a story, our eyes show some soul, our eyes exude power and that can be done through SMIZING. A SMIZE is a word made by Tyra Banks in the show. If you are an ANTM fan, there is no way you haven't heard that magical word. SMIZE means smiling with your eyes, it is done by squinting your eyes a bit to put more intensity in it. If you have mastered the art of SMIZE already, it is easy to do it anytime, anywhere but if you still haven't, here are some ways to do it. For Tyra, a SMIZE can be done by thinking of a memory that makes you happy to make the SMIZE come out. Your eyes will smile with the memory you are thinking but you also have to make sure that your mouth stays relax. For some models, they imagine their boyfriend/girlfriend in front of them naked oooppss. I'm not really sure how it brings out the SMIZE but it really works for them. For me, I do the SMIZE by making use of the light, when light hits your eyes, it squints and your SMIZE will be natural. Another advantage of this is, the light will help your eyes glow because the light will be reflected in your eyes which will make it even more powerful. If a light is not available, I look at a far object or the lens of the camera and set my eye focused on that. The focus can help your eyes have a sharp SMIZE which can definitely elevate your photos.

Have you noticed that all the mannequins that you see at the malls have long necks? Because a long neck make you look so elegant and expensive and makes you very marketable which is a work of a model to be marketable and to be able to sell products. This is why those clothes that you bought didn’t look good on you but looked freaking amazing worn by the mannequin. Neck dear, it’s the neck. But not most of us are blessed with long neck, how can we make the illusion of having a long neck in a picture to make ourselves look elegant and fierce?

This is simply done by throwing your shoulders to the back and moving your face forward. This will create an illusion of a longer, thinner neck. Doing a chin up can also make you have a long neck in a picture. This one is really advantageous for someone who has a huge forehead because a chin up can make your forehead smaller and at the same time makes your neck look longer.

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Tip #5 Know Where the Camera Is

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Taking a picture is a dance and the camera is your dance partner. In a dance you have to keep in mind the position of your dance partner and be aware of your position against his/hers to create a gracefully synchronized dance. This is also exactly the case in photography. You have to always keep in mind where the camera is and what part of your body will be captured. You also have to consider the size of a specific body part if you take it near or far from the camera in relationship with your other body parts.

Now to explain this better, here is a picture of a common mistake that people do and I usually see this picture all over social media. This is definitely the most common pose when someone sees a wall hahaha.

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What makes the first picture wrong is that we don’t see your other leg. It is hidden so basically you would look amputated even if you are not. This one is a better way to do it.



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The leg lift can work if the camera is on the side:



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Tip #6 Pose in Pain but Beautiful

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The trend in modelling now is looking natural but not too natural that you don’t look like a model. If that makes sense. Basically it is about doing less in a picture. It is about relaxing and not over-posing. I find this really cool but personally it doesn’t make me go crazy, I am still into high-fashion modelling poses that really look interesting and extreme. But when posing we most of the time run out of ideas on what poses to do next. The best tip for this is to think of your pains and pose with that pain but make it pretty. Those aches can be anything; Stomachache, headache, toothache, heartache, backache. It is literally everything.


To better illustrate this, here are some pictures :

Stomachache?

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Headache?

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Toothache?

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Hip-ache?

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Menstrual pain?

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You can literally think of anything. Just think of any pain and it's up to you how to make it fashion.

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