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Quick Answer Yes, but only lightly. Professional retouching should remove temporary distractions while keeping your appearance honest and recognizable. Many of the actors I photograph ask some version of the same question before we ever get to editing. How much should we retouch actor headshots before honest turns into airbrushed? It is a fair thing […]

Most people walking into their first session have no idea what agencies are actually looking for. They’ve seen polished editorial spreads and assume a great shot means dramatic lighting, heavy makeup, and an artfully sculpted pose. The reality is almost the opposite. Agencies and casting directors want to see you. Clear, honest, simple. The best […]

Barry came in carrying something a lot of actors carry: a LinkedIn photo he’d been using as his headshot. It was a perfectly fine image for a professional networking profile. Warm smile, approachable energy, nothing technically wrong with it. But it wasn’t doing what an actor headshot is supposed to do. It wasn’t communicating range, […]

You’ve done everything right. You’re in class. You’ve built a reel. You finally invest in a headshot session, walk out feeling genuinely good about the shots, and then nothing happens. Submissions go unanswered. Auditions don’t come. Here’s what I’ve watched happen over 30 years of photographing actors across actor headshots in NYC and Northern NJ: […]