Approve the model for a project
[LÁ TALENT LAB] regular formatModel
tests
One of the most requested portfolio formats: brands and casting directors ask for it, and agencies use it for the profile card in their database.
Book a slot →Clean, current, working material
At least two backgrounds, a natural manner, and the child at the centre of every frame. Tests show the model as they are today, not a year ago.
17 000 ₽Studio Le MagentaBooking by slotsAll good frames delivered
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Who looks at your tests
Not a creative story and not a fashion campaign. Tests are working material, and the industry makes decisions from them.
Send to castings
Decide who to work with
Assess the potential
Tests are the foundation of a portfolio.
Tests don't show a look. Tests read the model: texture, character and work in frame
The model works naturally. Natural poses, restrained expressions, a clean emotion. That is what the industry reads.
Update the tests every time the look changes: a new haircut, a new length, a new stage of growing up.
Three ways we light a test
At least two backgrounds per session and different light set-ups, so the portfolio covers different moods without losing the clean format.
Plan A · soft daylight
Two backgrounds minimum
Updated every season
What casting directors ask for
All good frames are yours
17 000 ₽ · all included
Updated every season
What casting directors ask for
All good frames are yours
17 000 ₽ · all included
one session, three stripsContact sheet
This is what a session gives you: different backgrounds and light, and the best frames picked by the photographer.
A · Background 01 · soft daylightLÁ ▸ 24
B · Background 02 · crisp flashLÁ ▸ 24
C · Cyclorama · classic one-light schemeLÁ ▸ 24
What's included
Model tests
17 000₽
- Shoot on at least two backgrounds
- Makeup artist
- Studio and extra equipment
- Props
- Styling consultation before the shoot
- Snack bar and drinks on set
- All successful frames
- Direction on every pose and emotion
Help with the looks
Alena tells you what will work for your child and sends links to specific items you can buy and return after the shoot. You put the looks together a week before, and send us photos to check.
Add mentoring
Already shooting? Add mentoring: we gather the inputs in an interview or a brief, review the fresh tests and put together a strategy and a six-month plan. About mentoring →
When you get the photos
Day 0Shoot day
2–3 weeksUsually ready
1 monthAt the latest
before you bookOur rules
Model tests are teamwork between the child, the parent and our crew. These three rules are how we keep every session calm and every result worth showing to a casting director.
The final say is ours
Anyone can leave a request. A slot is confirmed only after we get in touch with the parent and talk things through.
Tests ask real work from a child: listening to the photographer, staying in contact and working with the camera. We shoot until we have the result, not by the clock, and that only works when the child is ready for it. If we feel it is too early, we will tell you honestly and suggest coming back in a few months. The decision on every booking stays with us.
Request→We get in touch→Slot confirmed
We shoot the child, not a lookbook
Clothes should show the child's strengths and stay out of the way. Brightness and prints are added only when our creative director asks for them: sometimes the brief changes.
links, not moodboardsAlena helps you put the looks together: she sends links to specific items you can buy and return after the shoot. That is how every stylist in the industry works, and new items look far better on camera than clothes washed many times.
Bring
- Basics that fit well
- Plain colours, clean lines
- New or like-new items
- Comfortable shoes
- The items from Alena's links
Leave at home
- Skirts and dresses: they limit movement and angles
- Loud prints and big logos
- "Festive" looks and extra brightness
- Worn or faded clothes
Looks ready a week before
A look put together the evening before rarely works, and then we end up bringing suitcases of our own clothes to set. Plan the shopping early, so there is time to order, try on and swap sizes.
−7 daysLinks from Alena
−5 daysItems ordered
−3 daysPhotos of the looks to us
Day 0Shoot
The night beforeit’s too late to fix a look.
Shoots every testtests are shot byAlena Yukaeva
Co-founder LÁ TALENT LAB · photographer, art director, scout
Experience with international agencies and brands, and an inside view of what Europe and Asia expect from tests. We shoot in the most natural manner, with the focus on the child and their strengths.
Instagram: @mreldios
Le Magenta
Moscow, 3rd Yamskogo Polya St., 2 bld. 25 Regular format · booking by slots
Moscow, 3rd Yamskogo Polya St., 2 bld. 25 Regular format · booking by slots
Book
a slot
Choose a date and leave your contacts. We'll get in touch, get to know you and the child, and only then confirm the slot. After that Alena helps you put the looks together.
hello@latalentlab.com