Congratulations to Melanie Liburd who I saw last night on the great Sky action drama ‘Strike Back’ and have just heard she’s in a new American sit-com with Kelly Rowland. It’s absolutely fantastic and incredibly gratifying to see my clients progress and do well in their careers. It just goes to show, talent, persistence and a great headshot does get you noticed.
Melanie Liburd © Nick Gregan
– Melanie Liburd Actors Headshot
What do a London headshot photographer have to do with the Olympic Lanes I hear you ask? I don’t like chaos and that’s what’s happening to the traffic, it’s normally a 15 minute drive to my studio however it took over 80 minutes this morning. Enough to drive a sane man crazy and there’s only 6 more weeks of it. Let’s hope the games are a bit better organised.
What does it have to do with actors headshots I still hear you say? Well with the delays in travel and the confusion generated by seemingly random roads being closed it’s better to plan ahead, leave a little early and make sure you arrive in good time. It’s not nice to arrive stressed and flustered because you’re running late or perhaps have been diverted by Olympic Lane closures. If you arrive in that state it could easily transfer to your headshots. There’s plenty of space at my studio to chill out and relax before the shoot, so over the next few weeks allow a bit more time to get where you are going..
Olympic Lanes in Stratford
– Olympic Headache Olympic Lanes
Like everyone else I love the sunshine but as a headshot photographer in London there are some downsides to the beautiful hot sun.
As soon as the sun comes out we all head to the park and soak up as many rays as we can but the downside to this especially if you have a headshot session booked shortly afterwards is that a little too much sun can leave your skin quite red or worse sunburnt. Another issue that often crops up when it’s warm is the problem of perspiration. It’s a nightmare for an actors headshot photographer to try and photograph some one who is hot and bothererd. This applies to physically as well as mentally.
I’m always careful to tell my clients that they need to prepare properly for their headshot session to get the very best out of it. Lots of water in the days leading up to your shoot and this is critical when the weather is hot. There’s and old addage that is applicable to your headshot session,’fail to plan and you plan to fail’
However I hope everyone is enjoying this nice hot weather and making the most of the beautiful sunshine.
– Hot Sunshine and The Actors Headshot
I’m sorry for the lack of posts from me recently but along with working away on location I’ve also been working on a new series of posts to help illustrate ‘what is a bad headshot”
In this new series I’ll be using specifically photographed headshots to illustrate the bad points of an actors headshot.
So if you have any specific questions you’d like me to answer or issues you’d like me to address in the next few posts I’d be happy to deal with them and if needed I’ll shoot some headshots especially to demonstrate the ‘do & don’t’
As they say …..watch this space….
– Bad Headshots Just For You – A New Exciting Series Of Posts Coming Soon.
There’s many a time that a couple of my casting director buddies have joked about actors headshots they see as submissions.Observations like;
The actor doesn’t actually look like the headshot, how it looked like their younger sibling, and how surprised they were when the actors auditioned and they were surprisingly nothing like their headshot.
My instant reaction to these comments is “why didn’t the headshot photographer take the time to understand the actor they was shooting” but then I started to think on it a little and realised that on many occasions an actor whilst having their headshots taken do not always reveal themselves. They often do what they think will work or let the headshot photographer take control – this is sometimes a mistake as can be seen by the following article.
I liked this article because it resonated the frustration often felt by actors and by the casting directors too. So it got me thinking about specific headshot for specific roles.
As digital submissions are becoming more and more prevalent these days I often shoot several different ‘looks’ during each headshot session. Depending on each individual and on talking to them I often give them an open friendly look, a nice smiley shot, something more serious and possibly glamorous and occasionally something more sinister or aggressive depending on the client. This way they can submit a headshot that is particular to a specific role and hopefully have a better chance of of getting an audition, which is really what the headshot is all about.
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– My Actors Headshot Doesn’t Look Like Me
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