Cell Studios · East London
Model Test Shoots
Agency digitals, model tests and full portfolio days. Fixed prices, booked directly with me, built around range rather than repetition.
All model test commissions now run through Tilt Your Head, my sister studio for portraits and headshots at Cell Studios. Same photographer, same rates, whichever site you book from.
Packages
Four ways in
Every price includes the studio, direction, retouching and a private gallery. No VAT is added.
How it works
Three steps
Tell me what you need
Your agency brief, or what’s missing from your book. A rough week, and whether it’s digitals, a test, or both.
Get a date and a price
I reply within a working day with dates and the total payable. No estimates that move later.
Plan the looks
Your date is held once you confirm. Before the day we agree the looks and whether hair and make-up is being added.
Good to know
Before you book
Do I need digitals or a model test?
Digitals (polaroids, polas) are the plain, current record an agency uses to submit you. A model test builds range for your book. If your agency asked for polaroids, book Agency Digitals. If they asked you to test, book a Model Test.
When do I get the images?
Your private gallery within five working days, finished retouched images within two weeks. Need them faster? Five working days adds 25 per cent, 48 hours adds 50 per cent, agreed at booking.
Can I add more retouched images?
Yes, £45 each, chosen after you’ve seen the whole gallery. A better way to decide than guessing beforehand.
Is hair and make-up included?
Not in the session fee. An artist is available on request at an additional rate, or bring your own and do it at the studio. Say which in advance so the day is planned around it.
Where can I use the images?
Every rate includes usage for personal, professional and casting platforms such as Spotlight and IMDb. Commercial or press use is licensed separately.
Where do you shoot?
Cell Studios in Clapton, East London, in daylight or under studio light depending on the look. On location across London when a brief needs it. Bespoke creative direction or production-heavy sessions are quoted after a separate consultation.
I’m autistic, ADHD or anxious about the day. What do you actually do about it?
- I send the running order before the day so you know the sequence.
- One room, one photographer, no waiting area, no audience, and quiet.
- Direction is out loud and specific. No “just be natural”.
- Break whenever you want. Bring one person if it helps.
- If flash is a problem, say so at booking and the session is lit without it.
- Anything else that would help goes in the booking email. No reason needed.
Do you work with trans and non-binary clients?
Constantly. The name and pronouns you give are the ones on the booking, the gallery and the files. How you want to be seen is the brief.
Ready when you are
Digitals from £175 · Model tests from £350 · Portfolio days from £650
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Tilt Your Head · Cell Studios, Unit 0.9, Grosvenor Way, London E5 9NE · contact@eivindhansen.com · +44 7463 970702