Business Headshots

Corporate Portrait Photography

I am often approached to shoot executive portraits.  This month I had the privilege of going to beautiful Santa Monica, and taking a number of headshots for a company called Coda Automotive.

Even though we used studio lighting, I was able to utilize their location to bring in some color and texture into the backgroud rather than using a simple backdrop.   You wouldn’t know it, but these two powerful executives are quite the characters!

Executive Portrait/Corporate Headshot

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For a beginning actor, are cheap headshots, the best headshots?

Actors Headshot

The answer is no, and not because I’m biased.  Here’s why.

If you don’t have an agent, and you’re just starting out, you’ve probably heard from other actors that if you spend money on headshots, once you get an agent, your agent is going to ask you to re-shoot.  Why not take some cheap headshots now, get an agent, and then spend the money on good ones?  Read these two sentences again.  Now think about it.  This is probably the worst advise you’ll ever get from another actor.  The reason why most agents ask actors to re-shoot in the first place is because they get cheap headshots to begin with!  In the end having to shoot twice, rather than shooting once and spending the money then, ends up costing you more.  Regardless of how expensive or cheap a headshot is, you still have to spend the money reproducing them and distributing them.  So why spend that money twice?  If you do it right the first time, not only will it cost you less in the long run, but any legitimate agent who isn’t benefiting from illegal kickbacks, is going to recognize your headshots to be high quality and not ask you to re-shoot.

Professional headshots should not only score you great representation, but they should also bring back a return on your investment for years to come.  At that point, the only reason to re-shoot would be if your look has drastically changed.

Commercial Headshot

Theatrical Headshot

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Choosing Headshot Photographers

Actor Headshots

Dan here was an old client.  He decided he was in the market for new headshots again.  For some reason or another, he assumed I was out of his price range.

He was going to choose a “cheaper” photographer.

I was deeply hurt that he would go and cheat on me without even having a discussion.  Men.  Isn’t that so typical?  So I decided to open op the dialogue myself.  Find out what was troubling Dan and why he was willing to stray so easily.  Turns out it wasn’t me, it was him (it’s always them-the men).  Come to find out I am in his price range.  What Dan didn’t realize is that as a returning client, he was entitled to some perks!  Hopefully most photographers reward loyalty the same way I do.

Lesson here is, communicate with the photographer you were happy with in the past.  You never know the options available to you!

Detective

Grumpy Office Guy

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