3/17/2018 0 Comments Are YOUR pinup goals realistic?Honestly feel many gals actually think success will magically be handed to them, opportunities will simply knock at the door. It takes effort! Why someone else has the success you want, should be the least of your concerns. I say don't put someone's pinup success solely on them having money, or more money than you. I've seen gals with a nice size budget and time to shoot on a regular basis, or show up late, pay late, have horrible communication, fail to improve after years and countless shoots! Sure investing money is a must, and a requirement to achieve your goals. However, without knowledge and skills, no amount of money can just simply create success! The total pinup package consists of EVERYTHING being high quality! Hair, makeup, wardrobe, facial expressions and poses, and high quality photography. If you're styling is high quality, but you lack in pinup skills, that prevents the total and from being achieved. If your makeup needs improvement, your hairstyling and wardrobe are high quality, and the images are high quality, that's not a total pinup package. If your makeup and hair are FABULOUS, high quality images, but the wardrobe YOU selected to wear is unflattering, that key element lacking in quality, will effect creating the total pinup package. If your makeup, hair, wardrobe, facial expressions and poses are on point and high quality, but the images are low quality, not publication quality, flawed, or sub standard, the total and was not achieved. There are several pinup magazines that aren't very selective at all. Pretty much as long as you submit correctly and by deadlines, they'll publish anything, and any level of quality. Images don't have to be crystal clear, flawless, edited on a professional level. Your styling doesn't have to, all match a certain era. Your styling can be low quality, unflattering clothing, no variety of facial expressions and poses. Once YOU set goals to be in higher quality magazines, be photographed by a higher quality producing photographer, and want to land covers, there must ALWAYS be high quality, period! I look at examples and facts. Personal style and taste has very little to do with skill levels, very little to do with being realistic. Ask yourself as a model or photographer, are your images actually high quality? Or you just really loved your look, or like working with that model? Loving your hairstyle doesn't mean it's high quality. Loving your hairdo and makeup, doesn't mean your clothing choices were flattering. Can be the highest quality photography, does NOT mean your styling or wardrobe was fabulous! When I deal with facts, sure they bring emotions but the facts never change. I said this a few months ago, when a gal who's done countless shoots and never developed any skills, was complaining about not getting published. I said what I'm saying now,... do the math! She had the budget and time to do numerous shoots. Never improved what so ever. So we can't say the ONLY reason people achieve success is because they had more money, or more time. I said look at the facts 1st. You've book shoots with the same exact stylist, same exact photographers, even the same locations, everything may have virtually been the same, only difference was you. Your overall pinup look, your skill level, your lack of preparation, your lack of high energy and passion. I mean if you spent the same amount on hiring a stylist, paid the same amount to be photographed, bought new wardrobe, or borrowed, spent time getting ready, did your own makeup, spend hours shooting, with the same exact photographer, and at the same location,.... your sets get turned down, the other model or model's gained publication,....... what's different? You. I feel my styling skills never vary and are consistent. I have no control over the style or skill level a model has with makeup. I have no control over models that choose to wear outfits, I feel are unflattering, or too modern for pinup. I have no control over models that haven't researched or trained and have no skills. I can suggest wearing this or that, don't wear this or that, still up to the model. I can suggest a million ways to improve, still my advice is ignored. Take classes, wardrobe test, plan ahead, research at home, focus on what you need improve on, and create a solid plan,... still gals focus only on gaining publication, and getting pics. If something is low quality, and it's something only you're in control of, yet everything else that was provided was high quality, the key factor of the total pinup package not being achieved, was because of you. Hard to grasp and swallow. I've literally styled and photographer different gals, using my same styling and photography skills, and on the same set. One lands a feature in the top pinup magazine in the world, the other was turned down by that mag, but gained publication in a less selective magazine. Maybe you need extra styling time, advanced editing skills, more training, etc. Maybe you are not wardrobe testing, maybe you're choosing unflattering clothing. Maybe you are doing the same exact facial expressions every shoot, in every set. Study you! That's why I say, know you have competition, but focus on yourself! If everything was the same but the skills you brought, then examine yourself. Be happy with your current success and past achievements, or be realistic and stop setting high goals, without everything being high quality. EVERYTHING, your entire look, every detail, your skill level and the photography. If something lacks in quality, why expect publication in the top pinup magazines? That's totally unrealistic. want to go over a few things that any gal brand new to pinup can utilize to advance their career. I'm always asked many questions about how to get published in the top pinup magazines and how to land covers. I was recently asked how did I land the position as a pinup clothing model. Aside from all the essential things I've listed, blogged and posted about, several times, which are; research, train, invest, and plan ahead. The best way to get in the top mags and land covers, is by shooting often, and shooting with professinal photographer's. You may shoot with one or 2 good photographers, submit and get sets turned down. That means you must keep shooting more and submitting more. Gotta have images to be in mags, and gotta have high quality photography to gain publication in the top pinup magazines. Covers must be extremely high quality images, that include high quality styling. The gals I see who are brand new to pinup and achieving success early on and continuously, are those that plan ahead. I've blogged and posted numerous times on the importance of planning ahead, researching and training. Things like wardrobe testing before every single shoot, means you are serious about your looks, about each shoot, and about the time and money you invested. Cost absolutely NOTHING to test out wardrobe BEFORE every shoot. Can take only a few minutes of your day, and is important for several reasons. Studying your images, not simply and only studying vintage pinups, or modern-day pinups. Go beyond googling images to use as examples, and study your own. Studying pinup history, vintage starlets, and current pinups you adore, is important, yes. However MAKE the time to study your own images, too. During the Artist Development classes, I've offered and have had 4 years now since before Vegas, we cover things like exactly what YOU need improving on, things you need to incorporate, eliminate, alter or invest in. We go thru your unedited and edited images, and study every detail. Also during Artist Development classes we sit together and create an actual plan, a solid, realistic plan to achieve YOUR goals. Not focusing at all on the goals of other models, what THEY need improvement on, what they need to change, alter, or start to incorporate to gain success. We also cover marketing, how to build your brand. To become a marketable pinup means creating a solid pinup look, to achieve the total pinup package. Artist development means just that! Not simply booking shoots, showing up and paying to be photographed. Developing skills to directly help you accomplish your goals, as an artist. If you need improvement on facial expressions and poses, we cover that specifically. If you need improvement on your makeup skills, we go over that, in detail. If you need to do essential things, I've posted the importance about several times, like wardrobe test, etc., we will discuss those things, as well. There's no way I have time to message via Facebook messenger, going over all the important things I'm asked advice on, give detailed information, tips, feedback on your look or images, or give valuable constructive criticism. That's what Artist Development classes are for, and why they are needed. I've seen gals who never needed any training, they were a complete natural and blew my socks off with their skills. I've seen gals who are at an advanced skill level in makeup application. They always, every single shoot, have flawless makeup, that takes skill and time to achieve. I've given styling advice on buying a body shaper, a girdle and or waist cinchers. Blogged and posted, and even directly messages gals about those under garments, who I feel need them. Yet shoot after shoot, they still have yet to invest in key under garments. I can give advice, but will you take it, and value it enough to follow it?! I can't research or train for someone. I can't make gals, MAKE the time to wardrobe test, to study their own images, to learn what improvements they need, then MAKE the effort to improve. You want to be in the top pinup magazines? You must have high quality images, high quality styling, wardrobe that flatters your body type, skilled pinup facial expressions and poses, and have the total pinup package to offer! If any element is missing, or one element is low quality, and the rest are high quality, that's not the total and perfect pinup package! Know where YOU need improving. I say spend less time worrying about being in the top pinup magazines, or landing covers, if you need improvement. Spend your time worrying about your goals and be realistic. Why set goals without a solid plan? Why set goals that you're not qualified to achieve unless you improve, and take no steps to do so? Just because you book a shoot, pay for styling, buy new wardrobe, and pay to be photographed, does NOT mean you'll automatically produce the high quality images needed to get accepted into the top pinup magazines.
If you lack in skill or confidence, it'll show! If your makeup needs improving, it'll show. If the clothing you chose is unflattering on you, it'll effect the quality of the images. Creating the total pinup package doesn't come overnight, won't happen on its own, won't walk up and knock on your door! Even if you pay a stylist and photographer, YOU are still very much responsible for everything else. Believe me, I know the awesome feeling of gaining publication. But if you need improving in any area or area's, focus on that 1st. You can be featured in several pinup magazines, and still not gain publication in the top one's. You can get featured in a top pinup magazine by shooting with a certain photographer, does NOT mean when you shoot with other's you'll automatically produce the high quality needed to gain publication, in that mag again. There's a reason gals sets don't get turned down by top pinup magazines, why professional photographers that charge, but offer select models trade, offer them trade. There's a reason why certain gals get chosen to be the main face and model for photographers, magazines, and designers. There's a reason companies, such as clothing companies, choose certain gals to represent their company, product, brand or clothing line. Professionals designers, photographers, stylists, columnists and business owners are selective in who they want to represent them. Every gal brand new to pinup has their own strengths and weaknesses. Every gal has things they need no improving on, and things they directly need improving on. It takes time, which takes effort! Look at your goals for 2017, did you succeed at them, or any of them? Look at your 2018 goals, what did you do last year to increase your chances of success, this year? Do you have a realistic plan? It's about to be April 2018. We will blink and half the year will have passed! If you aren't succeeding at your goals, ask yourself why and then change your plan, create or use a plan B. And ask yourself have you honestly and really done everything YOU need to do to achieve them? Pinup Talk host Dianna Prince
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