Preparing for Photoshoot - What should I add? (Long read)

It's a long read. I might later also make a short section of only the most important info.

I know that some sections (like "ideas") should be on a different page.

Anyway, what advice should I add to this, for my models/clients?

https://idealportraits​.com/preparation

To me this is a good instruction list for models. As a client I would much rather for you to suggest I do these things that to be told to do them.

I would want the photographer to start a list like this with a introduction that says something to the effect of, We want to create the very best photographs for all our clients. To help us make your photographs to be their best, we suggest you follow as many of these instructions for models as possible..

Nogo wrote in post #18566488
To me this is a good instruction list for models. As a client I would much rather for you to suggest I do these things that to be told to do them.

I would want the photographer to start a list like this with a introduction that says something to the effect of, We want to create the very best photographs for all our clients. To help us make your photographs to be their best, we suggest you follow as many of these instructions for models as possible..

To your first comment: absolutely! I intended to point out that they're suggestions, I just haven't yet.

To your second comment: you handled it better than I was thinking.

Thanks!

Not suggesting you change this necessarily, but I must say, the suggestion to get eye glasses adjusted for the photoshoot made me laugh. The main reason you see people with glasses that don't look like they are fitted right is because of progressive and standard bifocals and trifocals. No matter how good the person fits them at the store the line where your focus shifts from distance to close will never be where it should be. Most people who have glasses that look like they are slid down their nose are wearing them that way because that is where the lenses line up best. Suggesting they change the fitting of their glasses for a shoot makes it seem to me that you just don't have any experience wearing bifocals.

Just saying take that into consideration.

Nogo wrote in post #18566492
Not suggesting you change this necessarily, but I must say, the suggestion to get eye glasses adjusted for the photoshoot made me laugh. The main reason you see people with glasses that don't look like they are fitted right is because of progressive and standard bifocals and trifocals. No matter how good the person fits them at the store the line where your focus shifts from distance to close will never be where it should be. Most people who have glasses that look like they are slid down their nose are wearing them that way because that is where the lenses line up best. Suggesting they change the fitting of their glasses for a shoot makes it seem to me that you just don't have any experience wearing bifocals.

Just saying take that into consideration.

None at all, I use single lens. I appreciate it!

I made changes for the things you mentioned.

icor1031 wrote in post #18566474
Anyway, what advice should I add to this, for my models/clients?

You forgot to tell clients who wish to be photographed with their pets that Little Sweetie should be shampooed and brushed before–

Wait. Add advice? No, I think you should remove some. Women don't need or want to be told what body parts to shave, especially by a male stranger. Trust me on this one. About makeup, I don't know what fashion prevails in Rapid City, but many girls and women where I live (it's a casual area) wear their natural faces and are unlikely to own face powder. Skin indentations from undergarments won't matter if a client will be fully dressed. Anyway, how is a woman who always wears a bra in public supposed to travel to your session without one? And won't your cautions about strap marks worry women who expect tame, nonglamour shoots? They might wonder just what kind of portraits you usually do and whether you're going to try to talk them into taking off clothes once they get there.

Most people don't have conspicuous dandruff. Instead of implying that the reader probably does, I'd leave the dandruff discussion for those who arrive needing it. Then deal with it in person.

Offensive props, gang insignia? Is it really necessary to mention them? Perhaps your clients often show up brandishing sex toys and wearing T shirts with racist slogans, I don't know. Again, I'm unfamiliar with the local Rapid City culture.

"Earring" is one word (spellcheck won't flag that kind of thing for you). I also noticed at least one typo somewhere.

OhLook wrote in post #18566735
You forgot to tell clients who wish to be photographed with their pets that Little Sweetie should be shampooed and brushed before–

Wait. Add advice? No, I think you should remove some. Women don't need or want to be told what body parts to shave, especially by a male stranger. Trust me on this one. About makeup, I don't know what fashion prevails in Rapid City, but many girls and women where I live (it's a casual area) wear their natural faces and are unlikely to own face powder. Skin indentations from undergarments won't matter if a client will be fully dressed. Anyway, how is a woman who always wears a bra in public supposed to travel to your session without one? And won't your cautions about strap marks worry women who expect tame, nonglamour shoots? They might wonder just what kind of portraits you usually do and whether you're going to try to talk them into taking off clothes once they get there.

Most people don't have conspicuous dandruff. Instead of implying that the reader probably does, I'd leave the dandruff discussion for those who arrive needing it. Then deal with it in person.

Offensive props, gang insignia? Is it really necessary to mention them? Perhaps your clients often show up brandishing sex toys and wearing T shirts with racist slogans, I don't know. Again, I'm unfamiliar with the local Rapid City culture.

"Earring" is one word (spellcheck won't flag that kind of thing for you). I also noticed at least one typo somewhere.

Thanks, ma'am! I made adjustments for most of the things you mentioned.

Makeup is almost universal here. I made it clear that shaving/skin marks are mostly an issue for swimwear/glamour (it's well known that I do these shoots too), and didn't mention specific areas to shave. Shortened the dandruff comment, added easier suggestions. Yes, people here wear offensive things - like F words on their T-shirts, out in public. And I fixed earring.

The whole thing is a draft, I need to shorten it soon.

My appreciation!