Post Shoot Info

Your guess is as good as mine.  I kid! I kid!  As a guideline what I tend to look for is: Does it look like you? Do you look good? Is there something interesting and compelling going on behind your eyes? Does it make me want to meet you? If you only had one shot to represent you, to go in the program next to your bio, would this be it?  It can also be helpful to share your viewing link with your agents, colleagues, besties, and family to get opinions. It can also be hilariously unhelpful to do this. Whenever I send my mother a link to photos she comes back with 174 favorites.

How Do I Order? What if I Want Touch Ups?

I include 2 cleaned-up photos for the Half Shoot, and 3 cleaned-up photos for the Full Shoot. Each additional cleaned-up shot after what is included in your package price is $25.

What does "cleaned up" mean?  It means we do eye and teeth whitening, skin smoothing, get rid of fly aways, make sure everything looks good contrast and color balance wise, and we crop and put your name and borders on it so that you are audition ready. 

If you need heavier lifting on retouches, like getting rid of glasses glare, getting rid of a neck beard (you know, when the two sides of your long hair meets in the middle and overlaps over your neck?) that goes to my retouch dude, Alexis. He's $40 a shot. He is amazing. He once changed a friend's hair color from red back to blond because her agents said casting directors weren't calling her in her as a redhead. Which is totes dumb, but, seriously, don't get me started - long story short, he saved her $1000 LA headshots for $40. 

Once you receive your retouches do with them as you please!  Upload them to casting sites!  Make hard copies!  Send a copy to grandma! Last minute audition, and you’re out of headshots? No problemo! If your printer is good enough, print one out, and if it’s not good enough, go print one out at CVS, FedExOffice, or Walgreens! It’s that easy! And if you call now, you also get the Ginsu II Knife Set!!! (Does anyone get that reference anymore?)  

How Do I Make Reproductions of My Headshots En Masse for Cheap?

Everything is on-line nowadays so for all my clients no matter where they are I recommend J&S Photo. They are delightful people and do a beautiful job.  

What If I Want Nothing To Do With You and Your Shenanigans? 

You're roommate is a photoshop wizard and you don't want to pay for retouching, your brother works at reproductions and can get you 50% off so you don't need me to crop and put borders on your pic. All good my friends!  Do it!  A couple things:

I think that cropping can make or break your shot, so even if you don't go through me for retouching please don't be shy about contacting me to crop and format your shots that your roommate touched up. It's free and I love doing it. I believe that every headshot out there that I have taken is one of my business cards and I want it to be perfect for you. I want someone to lean over to you in a casting director's waiting room and say, "who did your shots?"  Don't ever be shy about contacting me to help you make them perfect. You're actually doing me a favor!  

If you are going to go it alone, I have a couple of suggestions: Let whomever does your printing know things like if you would like to have white borders all around your headshot, or if you want your horizontal headshots placed vertically or horizontally on the page, whether or not you need any cropping done, etc. For horizontal headshots placed vertically, I recommend that they blow up the shot so that your face size is about the size of your fist – not including your hair and ears, just your face. Face = Fist. Oy, sounds like a date night with Chris Brown. (Too soon?) For Verticals, I am not a big fan of head room, so I recommend them cropping the top of the picture close to your head.  

When you get your repros done is when they’ll do things like put your name at the bottom. Two things that I suggest for your repros is matte prints, and having them put a black-line border around your picture (they call it a "key-line") – I think it really makes your headshot pop. I do not recommend lithos for headshots – I don’t care how cheap they are, you’ll never need 300 of the same picture of yourself. Ever. Ever. Go with photographic quality if you can for headshots. For postcards, DO go with lithos – they are sturdier and will fare better when you send them through the mail, you can write directly on the back of them without them bleeding through to the front of the picture, and you may well need 300 of them.

Remember, everything is controllable in color – your skin tone, hair color, eye color, background color, I can add a third eye #Picasso – the sky’s the limit! And yes, we can always turn your color headshots into black and white if you like. If you have ANY questions or confusions, no matter how large or small, I encourage you to contact me!!!!!! I am a resource for you whenever you need me! There are no stupid questions!!!!  

Take Care and May The Force Be With You!