Here is something most beginners never get told: a modeling agency does not want your best photo. It wants your most honest one. Agencies call these digitals, sometimes polaroids, and they are simple, unedited pictures that show exactly what you look like today. You can take every one of them on your phone, at home, in about fifteen minutes. Why agencies want digitals. Heavy makeup, filters and editing hide the very things a casting director needs to see: your bone structure, your skin, your proportions and how you look in natural light. A clean digital tells them in seconds whether you fit what their clients are asking for. It is not about looking perfect. It is about looking like you. What to wear. Keep it simple and fitted so your shape is clear. A plain black or white tank top or fitted tee with fitted jeans is the classic choice. Skip logos, patterns, baggy clothes, hats and sunglasses. Wear simple shoes or go barefoot. Hair and makeup. Pull your hair back off your face for at least a few of the shots, then take a couple with it down and natural. Wear little or no makeup. Clean skin, maybe a touch of mascara and lip balm. No filters, no beauty mode and no retouching. Light and background. Stand facing a window during the day so soft natural light falls on your face. Use a plain wall behind you, ideally white or light grey, with nothing cluttered in the frame. Avoid harsh overhead lights and direct midday sun, which throw hard shadows. Setting up your phone. Use the main back camera, not the selfie camera. Set the zoom to 1x or 2x and never the wide 0.5x lens, which stretches your face and body. Put the phone at chest height on a tripod, or ask a friend to hold it steady at that height. Keep the phone straight, not tilted up or down. The shot list. Take a close headshot looking straight at the camera with a neutral expression, then the same shot smiling. Take a profile from each side. Take a three quarter angle with your face slightly turned. Then step back for a full length shot from head to toe facing the camera, and a full length shot from the side. Stand naturally with your arms relaxed. That is the whole set. The mistakes that get photos passed over. Filters and editing. Old photos that no longer look like you. Group photos with someone cropped out. Sunglasses, hats and heavy makeup. Dark, blurry or grainy pictures. A photo that is beautiful but does not look like the person who would walk into the room is the one thing a casting director cannot use. Sending them to Rockstarr Media. Our casting page asks for at least two photos: a bare face headshot and a full body shot, taken within the last six months. JPG, PNG and HEIC files are all accepted, up to 10MB each and ten photos in total. Add a working portfolio if you have one, but you do not need one. Applying is free, your photos are kept private and seen only by our casting directors, and you must be 18 or older. Why it is worth fifteen minutes. Rockstarr Media, founded and owned by Bart Starr, is a modeling agency inside a music and festival media house. Our team goes VIP backstage at concerts, interviews the artists everyone is talking about and produces JET SETTERS, our original series filmed by private jet on the world's most exclusive islands. Your digitals are the first step into that world, and you can take them today.