Lauren Head shots

Not too long ago I worked with Lauren and we did head shots for acting and modeling.
I would like to share the 4 I liked the most.

When I’m working on head shots – but besides that as well - I really do not like to ask “please smile” :). It’s just making pictures fake unless you’re grabbing a moment of a real one!!!
I had a chance to work with casting directors and they very rarely chose a picture
with just a smile … They’re looking for attitude and the character of that person.
Look at the first picture I took of Lauren … hello there is the attitude… come out spontaneous and after I understood from her mom that she has that a lot!!! So… success :)

The second for me includes a lot of grace … smooth nice look :)

The third one. When you’re photographing think about completely different looks as well, in this case the glasses just made it for me.

In that last picture I even do not remember what I said but it was right on, she had a real smile on her face. Nice to have one or two but again casting directors are really NOT looking for this kind of look!
Do not forget a very important thing while you shooting for a head shot: you need a very soft light, no shadows on the face, clear eyes!!! Think about the background color (it’s not the main thing but it adds to the image as you can see on the first image I show above).
Do not ask your subject to put her/his head on his hands etc…
If the skin is not nice do not be afraid to retouch. Be careful if you retouch do not go far heavy on retouching ,it makes the skin look like plastic and not natural.
I saw it a lot … I personally do not like it, but it’s my point of view.

In Lauren’s case it was NOT necessary she has a baby skin.

I hope this little information helps you to start a good head shot session.