Information to get your best headshot!!

"Before your headshot"

• Your headshot is the key to your whole acting career. It is simply an 8x10 photograph of your face. You want to get the best possible headshot in order to promote your acting career better.
• Find a photographer that you are comfortable with. Set up an appointment with him/her so you can see their work and get a chance to meet them in person and not just over the phone.
• Take a look at your self and decide if you are ready to get the pictures taken. If you need to loose a few pounds, get braces, get contacts, dye your hair, cut your hair, etc...be sure to do all of that before the pictures are taken.
• Make sure that your hands are presentable. If you are one of those who bites your nails, stop and trim them neatly.
• When you are ready and have set up an appointment for your headshots, make sure to get a good night's rest the day before. The camera picks up everything, so if you are tired, it will show.

"During your photo shoot"

• Arrive early. This will give you a few minutes to get everything together and take a few deep breaths.
• Don't schedule anything for after your photo shoot. That way, you won't worry about missing your next appointment or meeting.
• Your headshot should show your natural side and not your beauty side.
• If you have a headache right before or during the shoot, cancel and re-schedule. It will show in your pictures that you did not feel good.
• Be relaxed and your self. Don't be afraid that the pictures will turn out bad, or else they will.
• Smile naturally. Make sure that your picture won't look like you forced a smile on your face.
• Bring a CD with some of your favorite music on it. Most of the time they will turn the music on to relax you.
• Have fun. This is one of the time that you are in the spot light for 1-2 hours. Make it pleasant and enjoyable.

"After your photo shoot"

• A few days after you have the pictures taken, your photographer will call you to come pick up your "contact sheets." Contact sheets will have all of the pictures that you took on one 8x10. They are pretty small and you will use a loop to magnify them.

• Select which headshots you liked the best (the photographer should help you with this) and then they will print an 8x10 of the picture you choose.

• Take the 8x10 and either send it off, or drop it by a mass copy business. Be sure to have them put a border around it with your name in the bottom right hand corner.

• Don't have the name be a real fancy font. Just a plane font like thins, Times New Roman, or like this, which is Arial.

• It will take anywhere from 3-10 days for you to get your headshots back. You will choose when you order them how many you want printed. Normally anywhere from 25-1000.