How many headshots

That comes with time. What about those just starting off in the industry? How many shots do they need to get started? This is a tricky question. It all depends on what you want to be submitted for. This is needed just to be submitted for those areas. That seems like a lot. But a well rounded portfolio can really help you. Having variety makes casting you easier. Steve Lawton explains. APHP member, Steve Lawton looks at how many headshots you need to include in your portfolio, and why.

Tarinn Callender, currently playing the leading role, Hercules Mulligan, in Hamilton. Taken by Steve Lawton. I think the same can be said for how actors present themselves on Spotlight or other actor platforms. Along with a strong and impactful main profile image, my advice is to really only have one other image from the same headshot session in the gallery section. We want to avoid the idea that the full range of your emotional gamut and versatility will be represented by a string of different poses and set-ups from the hopefully excellent session with your APHP photographer.

This will only undermine your presentation as a competent and self-posed professional who will always impress more in person or in self-tape than in photo-shoot - with all the implications of a managed outcome that that implies. The gallery section of Spotlight is most effective when it shows images of you working, either stills from a film, television or theatre job. Your video showreel, if you have one, will then expand on the tone and character of that first key, main profile headshot. Of course you can unsubscribe any time, and I will never share your info with anyone else.

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