Is it All Really In The Eyes Of An Actors Headshot? How To Give Your Headshot The Edge!

If you take a good look at a few different casting shots you’ll notice one thing in common to all the good one’s (that’s the one’s that work and one’s you like).
Almost magnetically you’ll be drawn towards the eyes.
It’s always the eyes and they should be in the crispest of focus and be full of emotional content.
It’s the eyes.

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That’s right at the person who eventually looks at your headshot.
The idea is to make a connection and impress the person looking at your headshot.
This is essential for a great headshot and everyone needs a great headshot.
If you look at some actor’s headshots you’ll see the actor focused on some mythical object miles away or gazing over the shoulder of the photographer leaving them with a blank lifeless look in their eyes.
If you look at some shots you’ll see the actors looking over the shoulder of the photographer or even worse staring off into the distance with the kind of glazed eyes you’re more likely to see on a dead fish.

As your main calling card an actors headshot has to have impact.
Therefore we don’t want our eyes to be blank and lifeless, do we? We want your eyes to be looking directly into the lens, focused in the correct place, and much more importantly to have some depth of emotional content in them.
This is the way to make sure that whoever is looking at your headshot can see that you have more depth to your personality as an actor.
This is where picking the right headshot photographer is very important – to be precise it’s critical. If you’ve made the right choice of the actors headshot photographer, they will help you express the emotion that gives your eyes depth and content to your personality.
The same as a good director encourages and enthuses you, to give your absolute best performance.
To be honest I’ve had many actors liken the way I work to that of a good director, which I’ve always found to be a great compliment indeed as an actors headshot photographer in London
For years I’ve had many actors liken the way I shoot to that of a good director, in the way I encourage and draw out their personality.

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I know lots of actors hate having their headshot done, they can’t stand the thought of peering into the lens, and it makes many, many actors uncomfortable.
I’m aware that lots of actors pale at the very thought of having their headshot done, they find it challenging in an uncomfortable sort of way looking directly into the lens sometimes feeling as though they are ‘locking eyes’ with the photographer.
I fully understand the many reasons why actors find having a new headshot done so difficult and luckily I have my own style and techniques for getting around this.

So there we are. In a nutshell it’s that little bit of attention to detail that’ll give your headshot an edge, make it stand out from the crowd.
You may even actually enjoy it.