Understanding Your Headshot Shoot Process
Preparing For Your Headshot Shoot
IMAGE STYLE: In order to make each shoot as smooth as possible and have the correct lighting and backdrop ready when clients arrive, we ask that clients select or send one or more reference images of the style of photo/s they want, prior to the shoot. These can be picked from our headshot gallery or any website or other headshot image.
USEFUL TIPS: To help you prepare for your headshot shoot, we send you a set of useful tips and instructions to help you look and feel your best on the day.
The Shoot
We do everything we can to ensure your headshot shoot experience is both fun and professional! We guide you with posing and help find the perfect angle and look for your features and body shape, to achieve and convey the impression and look you want.
During the shoot, we review and discuss images making adjustments and tweaks until we achieve great images that everyone is happy with.
After the Shoot: Image Selection
A headshot shoot will include from 50 to over 200 photos, depending on the package. To make it easier for clients to review, the images are inspected and undesirable images are removed. These would typically include shots that have unflattering expressions and blinking, inferior of very similar shots, shots that are out of focus or where studio lights misfire, etc. The trimmed collection of images is then exported as a series of low resolution watermarked selection previews and sent to the client for review. From this selection, the client picks the relevant number of images for editing, based on the headshot package they have chosen.
Sample Selection Sheet
Photo Editing/Retouching and Colour Processing
Headshot retouching takes a clean, professionally shot, starting image and turns it into the next level best version of the model, helping resume’s and casting sheets stand out, and giving that successful international edge to media photos and corporate portraits.
Retouching allows for:
- adjusting exposure (brightness) and colour,
- fixing blemishes and reducing imperfections,
- neatening, reshaping and adding volume to hair,
- neatening clothing by removing fluff or reducing creases,
- enhancing facial features,
- cropping and reframing,
- colour treatments, and
- adding effects and artistic flair.
The retouching approach is based on the headshot package chosen, but we are guided by the client and often receive special requests (that may attract an additional charge) such as:
- to look younger or to “lose weight”,
- for scars or skin conditions to be removed,
- removing bracers or straightening teeth,
- changing the background or inserting a logo’ or
- “swapping” heads or features between photos.
See examples of before and after retouching or find out more about the editing and retouching process and packages.
Edit Previews
As soon as edits of the selected images are complete, they are exported with preview watermarks and placed online for the client to review. Any feedback from the client is discussed and incorporated and the process repeated until the client is happy with the end result.
Final Image Export
The final edited versions of the images are then exported in the various required formats and placed in the online shared folder.