headshots

How to Format Your Résumé and Headshots

Michael Kostroff and photographer friends explain how to move to the big city and ensure that your résumé and headshots don’t mark you as fresh off the bus.

The Child Actor’s Tricks to Taking the Perfect Headshot

Headshot photographer Robin Lorraine reveals how to take a headshot that makes you stand out and get noticed.

6 Tips to Gaining Industry Attention for Your Child

Much has been written on this subject, and after many years in the business working with child performers and their families, I am happy to weigh in with my six tips on increasing your child’s chances of getting representation and auditions.

4 Tips For Finding the Right Headshot Photographer

Your headshot is one of the most important tools in your kit. This is what gives someone an initial impression about who you are and gets you the attention you are looking for.

10 Things To Do With Your Old Headshots

New headshots! Hooray! Is anything better than getting new pictures that perfectly reflect who you are as a performer? But you have a crapload of old headshots leftover that cost you a small fortune and you can’t bring yourself to throw them away!

5 Settings on a Digital Camera You Should Know

Here are five settings already built into almost DSLRs that will easily allow you to take DIY headshots, production stills, or other promotional photos without breaking open the manual.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 Offers Affordable Editing Software for Your Headshots

A much better choice for anyone who doesn’t do hardcore graphic design on the side is the home edition: Photoshop Elements 11 ($99.99 new, or $79.99 if you’re upgrading).

How Your Headshot Can Make You Look More (or Less) Attractive and Trustworthy

A new study from the California Institute of Technology finds that close-up photos or headshots can make a person seem less trustworthy, less competent, and less attractive.

The Dragons of Scam Artists and Bad Teachers in Acting Careers

Secret Agent Man continues crying out that actors need to beware the dragons of con artists and unprofessionals.

The Perils of Dating as a Performer

Cam Kirkpatrick, Brigham, and Julia Granacki discuss headshots, online stalking, and other problems that can accompany actors’ dating.