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Quick Answer To help your child start acting in New Jersey, begin with age-appropriate training or local performance opportunities, then build a simple portfolio with an accurate headshot and resume. Once your child is comfortable performing, you can begin researching legitimate casting calls and talent agencies. Most parents who ask me about child acting in […]

If you are figuring out how to make a slate shot that actually helps your Actors Access profile, start with the headshot it will sit beside. The goal is consistency. The mechanics of how to make a slate shot are simple, but the presentation choices matter. The person in the seven second clip should feel […]

Your child announced they want to be an actor, and now you have to figure out what happens next. Parents ask me a version of this almost every week, with the same mix of excitement and quiet panic. After more than 30 years photographing performers across Northern New Jersey and NYC (more about my studio […]

Almost every person who sits down in front of my camera asks some version of the same question within the first two minutes: should you smile in a professional headshot, or does a serious face read as more competent? It is a fair question, and the honest answer is that there is no single expression […]

The question comes up in nearly every corporate inquiry I receive: can we do this here, in our own space? The answer is yes. Office headshots are now one of the most common ways companies photograph their teams, and professional headshots in your office can look every bit as polished as anything made in a […]

Every summer the same question arrives before the wardrobe question, before the scheduling question, sometimes before hello: should you smile in your ERAS headshot? It is a fair thing to be uncertain about. You are handing a program director one photograph that sits beside your scores for months, and nobody wants to read as too […]