[Acting Headshots Examples by Vanie] These days, there are a lot of resources on marketing looks for headshots. With "Type Me" classes, look workshops, personal brand coaches and stylists all giving you advice on looks, sometimes it can create more confusion than...
Los Angeles Headshot Photographers
I Just Told Someone I’m Not The Photographer For Them
[Written By One of Top Headshot Photographers Vanie Poyey] I recently had an interesting consultation with someone on the phone. She LOVED my work and she was very much interested in shooting with me. As usual, I started to ask questions about "type" and any notes she...
How to stay in the “Safe Zone” with your wardrobe choices
[Professional Headshots Near Me by Vanie] If your headshot package includes four outfits, you should bring four outfits, right? Darin Juarez: Detective or PI / Hipster WRONG! I stress this over and over during my consultations, and yet actors STILL put together their...
When You Hire a Photographer, What They Do Is What You Get
[Headshots Photography by Vanie] I recently had the unfortunate luck of shooting with a client who should have hired another photographer. I'll explain in a moment, but first, here's what I've learned over the years as both a consumer and a business owner. Dana...
What should a great headshot look like?
[Los Angeles Headshots by Vanie] The short answer? You! A great headshot should represent you in your own market. Pretty obvious right? You'd be surprised how many actors transform their headshots into an ideal version of themselves, and then wonder why the...
Do you have a competitive headshot?
[LA Headshot Photographers by Vanie] Compare your headshot to headshots of friends that are auditioning and working. Ask these friends to let you peek at their profiles on LA Casting or Actors Access. You may notice differences between their headshots and yours....
Best tips for interviewing headshot photographers
[LA Headshot Photographers by Vanie] When searching for a headshot photographer, are you "interviewing" them by sending a few emails back and forth? Is it really possible for you to know whether a photographer you're going to spend a few hours with, from whose images...
Headshot trends change–stay current!
[LA Headshot Photographer Vanie] This is a blog I like to bring back from the archives every once in a while, only because as the title suggests, headshot trends change and well, so does this blog and my images! Before digital, there was film, the mystery of black and...
If your headshot makes you look green, agents assume you can’t act.
[Los Angeles Headshot Photography by Vanie] Guest Blog by Sinclair Jones of 2nd Street Artist Management I recently had the pleasure of working with Sinclair Jones, who has built a successful career as a manager placing talent in shows like Prison Break, Law &...
How to get into the right doors in Hollywood
[Hollywood Headshots by Vanie] A friend of mine mentioned he was looking for a new agent and bought clear envelopes and started doing submissions. I thought to myself, "Really? It's the year 2014! There's got to be a better way." And of course, the result that...