Your profile
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How to turn an online profile into visibility, tours and — yes — real income. In a few moves.
Nice to meet you! I'm MaXu, a professional photographer from Rome and the founder of this site.
This is your quick guide. No boring rulebook: just the things that really matter to get noticed and to earn. From your Control Center you run everything — bio, tours, photos, posters, visibility. Your profile shows what you decide, to whom you decide.
But if you only read one page, read the first. It has the number one rule.
Your personal link, in your bio. And leave it there.
When your profile is active, we give you your own address: your public page, with a small tag at the end — ?ref=1. It's your secret weapon.
It's essential that you share it everywhere: Instagram and TikTok bio, stories when you're on tour, messages.
And above all: put it in your bio and leave it there to grow. It's not a post that expires after 24 hours — it's a planted seed. Every day it stays up, it works for you, quietly, even while you sleep.
Why does it matter so much? Because every NEW photographer who signs up coming from your link becomes one of your referrals — and referrals are worth money (I'll explain in chapter 02). Plus, every click brings you photographers and lifts you in search results.
Don't share = don't grow 😴.
Grow = earn more 💰.
How to do it, step by step
- Open your Model Area and go to the top, to the “⭐ My personal link” card (it appears when your profile is active).
- Press “Copy my link”.
- Paste it in the website / link field of your Instagram and TikTok bio. Leave it there.
- Use it in your stories too (LINK sticker) when you announce a tour or your availability.
Based in Rome, available worldwide
Info shooting/collab dm
⭐ My personal link
It's your secret weapon! Share it everywhere — it's free, it's yours: use it.
…/modella/your-name?ref=1Referrals: photographers you bring, income that stays yours.
A referral is a NEW photographer who signed up because they clicked your personal link — or because you invited them, telling them to sign up from your link.
What do you gain, concretely, when you take part in a live event (the ShootJams)? Quick note: to take part you leave the venue a location contribution — a percentage of what you collect. Here's what referrals do to it:
The percentages here are an example: each event sets its own.
The rules reward those who bring real people, not names on a list. Playing fair, here, is also what pays the most.
That's why the smartest move is to start RIGHT NOW: referrals build up over time and pay off at the next event. Whoever sows earlier, reaps more.
💡 Three moments, one link
1. A new photographer signs up with your link → they're yours forever. 2. They register for the event (paying) → your hours unlock. 3. They actually show up → it counts for the discount and, if they shoot with you, their fee is all yours.
Posters: for your tours and your events.
From your Control Center, the “🪧 Poster” tab, you create social-ready graphics with your photo — no design software needed. Drag the elements with a finger and you're done.
Posters for your TOURS
- Pick the format: “Story 9:16” for stories, “Post 4:5” for the feed.
- Pick a photo from your public photos, then adjust zoom and position by dragging it.
- In “Dates to promote” tick your Tour stops: cities and dates appear on the poster (translated too).
- Add a free text (“I'll be here soon…”), choose font and colors.
- Press “Download Poster”: it saves the poster among yours and downloads it at the same time.
Posters for your EVENTS (Shootout & ShootJam)
If you're one of an event's models, the “🪧 Your event posters” box appears in the Poster tab.
- Click the event name in the box.
- The event's official graphic opens, ready to go.
- Pick and drag your photo behind the graphic; adjust the zoom.
- Press “Download Poster”: it saves and downloads, like the others.
And there's more: the posters you create we reshare on our socials, and every week the 3 most active models get their poster published in the workshopfotografico.com newsletter — over 5,000 photographers. The more you share and tag us, the higher you climb.
Never forget two things before posting: put your personal link in the story (LINK sticker), and tag us — @workshopfotografico_com on Instagram, @workshopfotografic on TikTok. We'll be happy to reshare you.
▸ Photo: pick from your public ones
▸ Zoom & drag to frame
▸ Tour dates · free text
⬇ Download PosterThe ShootJams: live events, cash in hand.
The ShootJams are live events: days of one-to-one sessions where photographers book you hour by hour. If you're selected, it's a real earning opportunity.
How it works, for you
- In the event area you accept the rules and pick your rate profile — basically how much you want to be worth per hour, among the options offered. Careful: after the first session the choice locks for the whole event, so take your time.
- Photographers book you from the site: day, one-hour slot, solo/duo/trio.
- At the start of each hour you get paid in cash, directly by whoever is in the room.
- At the end of the day you pay your location contribution — and on the photographers you brought, nothing.
A full day can be worth thousands of euros.
For a high-profile international model, with at least 3 referrals, the expected net earning in a single day can realistically reach:
Realistic figures for the most in-demand models with referrals. Unlocking the hours gives you the right to be booked; how much you earn then depends on how many hours you work and how many referrals you bring. Your exact rate is visible only to you, inside the event.
One golden tip: start collecting referrals RIGHT NOW. The more you bring, the more you earn at the ShootJams. And the money from your referrals is 100% yours. Bring lots!
You take part as a self-employed collaborator — basically, “the entrepreneur of yourself”. The potential is real, but it depends on how many hours you work and how many referrals you bring: unlocking the hours gives you the right to be booked, the rest you build yourself.
Two engines, always running.
Everything you do on the platform feeds two outcomes: referrals (which become income at events) and contacts (which become shoots and work). Here's the formula.
The best part? They run on their own. The link stays in your bio, the posters stay in the feeds, your tour stays on the site. You sow once, they harvest for weeks.
Everything your profile can do.
Photographers contact you
It's the heart of it all: interested photographers write to you. Your profile shows the contacts you choose (email, socials) and you receive requests from the community's photographers.
Bilingual bio, by itself
Write your description in one language: the system automatically translates it into the other (IT ⇄ EN). A double audience, zero effort.
Two portfolios
The public one (no nudity) is your showcase. The reserved one — where fine-art nude goes — stays protected and visible only to whom you choose: for example only Supporters, i.e. selected and verified photographers, not anonymous profiles.
Tours with notifications
Add cities and dates: photographers in that area get an alert about your presence and can contact you, if interested.
Find a Photographer
Plan your travels: search by city or GPS and discover available photographers in the area. They aren't notified of your search.
Social posters
Ready-made graphics for stories and posts, with your photos, your dates and — for events — the official graphic. They save themselves when you download them.
Lifetime referrals
Every new photographer you bring with your link is yours forever and pays off at the next event: more hours unlocked, less contribution, exempt fees.
Tailored visibility
For each piece of data — city, socials, contacts, portfolio — you decide who can see it: everyone, registered users, only Supporters, or no one.
Timed VIP link
A key for a trusted person: they see everything for 24 or 48 hours without signing up. You revoke it whenever you want.
Before all this switches on, your profile must be active: complete your bio (with your private personal details), set a profile photo and upload at least 10 photos in total to your Portfolio (nude photos go in the reserved Portfolio). Then I publish it.
One last thing
We'll grow together.
Guaranteed.
Good luck — and remember the number one rule: put the link in your bio, leave it there, and the money from your referrals will be 100% yours. Bring lots.
Fine-art photography. Your rate is visible only to you and to the event's participants. Some features (personal link, tours, posters) turn on when your profile is published. For anything, write to me: maxu@workshopfotografico.com