Watch Photoshoot of Model Jharana Risal . Photoshoot is a session in which a photographer takes pictures of someone for publication. A photo shoot is generally used in the fashion or glamour industry, whereby a model poses for a photographer at a studio or an outdoor location where multiple photos are taken to find the best ones for the required brief. Photoshoot is a compound word in the making, but it is not yet fully accepted. For as long as the words photo and shoot have been commonly used together—which is only a couple of decades—the two-word form, photo shoot, has always been the more common by a large margin and remains so today.