Photographing Headshots: Create High-Impact Headshots that Flatter Your Subject - Tapa blanda

"This book will help you formulate your new (or revitalized) headshot business and get you closer to producing the work that today's consumers need to promote themselves. The underlying message is showing your market what you can do for them and their image." --Tim Kelly, M.Photog.Cr., F-ASP, IE., FDPE, FSA, FED, Cameracraftsman "Gary Hughes' Photographing Headshots should be required reading for any photographer planning to photograph people in any capacity." --Booray Perry, Cr. Photog., CPP

Headshots images that include the subject’s head and shoulders are big business for photographers. These types of images are needed by individuals from all walks of life from business tycoons to actors and models. While most clients who book portrait sessions want images that document a moment in time, special event, or aspect of their personality (and file them away or share them with family or friends), headshots are very public. They grace annual reports, appear on business cards and websites, and take up prime real estate in the portfolios of those who seek to appear in fashion magazines, product ads, on stage, and on the screen. In short, clients need tailored images that speak of a business proficiency, appear pleasant, and simply communicate their core characteristics to viewers.

In this book, Hughes provides solid lighting and posing techniques that will yield repeatable, polished portrait results that please subjects and get them noticed.