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Affordable Acting Headshots

Learn everything you need to get great affordable acting headshots. Perfect for the actor on a budget.

Affordable Acting Headshots

Affordable Headshots for Everyone

Affordable headshots are not cheap headshots.

We can always find a great value by shopping around for anything we buy. Whenever I shop for anything, I always look to get the best price and the best quality that I can get.

You can do the same thing when shopping around for your acting headshots.

Get on google and check out the different websites of all the headshot photographers.  Find a price point that you're comfortable with, but also check the quality of the headshots.  

Check out our: Mens Acting Headshots and our Womens Acting Headshots

Is the photographer using great lighting?

Lighting is very important for your headshots.  Great lighting makes you look professional.  Bad lighting makes you look unprofessional.

Is the photographer capturing excellent expressions that helps to give the essence of the character you're trying to portray? A big part of what you can do to make your affordable headshots session successful is to have the appropriate wardrobe for each look.  

If you have these three elements; excellent lighting, perfect wardrobe and great expressions your headshots will be a success.

I Just Need to Add a Few Headshot Looks

This will save you some money

Sometimes you just want to add a couple of looks to your headshot portfolio. This is not the time to go out and spend $1,000 on just updating a couple looks. I just did my headshot session last week but my agent wants me to add one or two more looks. Find an excellent photographer that uses beautiful light and is an excellent value.  This a great way to go when adding on these extra looks.  At LAphotoSpot you're going to get affordable headshots that aren't cheap headshots.

This is My first Time Getting Headshots

You don't want to spend $1000 right?

Let's say this is your first time getting head shots.   Like anything we do the more we do it the better we get at it. It's always a good idea to get as prepared as you can when you're going to get your pictures taken. However, the first time you get your headshots taken you're probably going to make a few mistakes, or not be as prepared as you should be. Why would you want to spend $1,000 on your headshots for the first time and then turn around and say “wow I wish I would have been a little more prepared”  or “wow I wish I would have hired a makeup artist instead of doing my own makeup.”  So what do we do now, schedule another $1,000 headshot session?

We've all heard the term starving actor.  At LAphotoSpot we strive to give Great headshots at a Great price.  We like to support the actor by giving them quality headshots and not taking all their money.  Like I said earlier, affordable headshots don't need to be cheap headshots.

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How I became a Headshot Photographer

The store of how I became an acting headshot photographer

How I Became a Headshot Photographer

  

From Business Degree to Fashion Photographer

This is my first blog post I thought it'd be interesting to explain to you guys my path of how I came to be a headshot photographer. I grew up in the state of Idaho.  Basically there's nothing in Idaho.  it’s really really boring. In highschool I was playing guitar in a band doing the standard “I want to be in a rack band highschool thing.  One day I had a camera I was taking pictures of my girlfriend. The photos turned out really good and I thought someday I might want to be a photographer.  After college, I got my degree in Business Administration, not photography, strange as that may seem.  Wanting to get out of Idaho I moved to Seattle.  One day at the beach I was looking at some fashion magazines and I thought I wanted to try and be a photographer.  I had no idea how I was going to do it, or what it took to become a photographer, or any clue of what to do.  I was just looking at the pictures in the magazine thinking to myself “if somebody else can do it, there's no reason why I can't do it.”  After I 100% decided to make the change to be a photographer I traded my guitar and some other musical equipment to a friend for his camera and started being a photographer. At this point I made a couple friends who are also interested in photography one guy was just getting started like me and we would take pictures and talk about them and share them with each other.  My other friend had been doing it for a couple years.  He was working with the local modeling agencies. We were all friends hanging out talking about photography.  One day the guy who was a photographer for a couple of years had a friend show up and was sleeping on his couch.  He was a male model and he had just returned from Milan Italy where he was modeling.  He said to us “hey you guys should go to Milan and shoot fashion photography there.”  For some reason, I don’t know why, we decided that was good idea.  So one of my friends and I started saving our money and made the trip to Milan.  I lived there for a year and a half shooting fashion photography for the modeling agencies in Milan. It was an awesome experience and I really loved it.  And of course the food and wine in Italy are really really good.

Transition to Headshot Photographer in Los Angeles

After a year and a half I move back to Seattle and was working as a photographer.  I don't know if you've ever been to Seattle, but it rains a lot, I mean it rains A LOT.  That's when I decided to move to California. I saved up my money, packed up my car full of all my belongings and drove to Los Angeles. I think this is why I can relate to all the aspiring actors who move to Los Angeles. When I first arrived in Los Angeles I was still shooting fashion photography.  After a few years I saw that there was a lot of the actors in LA and they all needed headshots. I thought it would be a good idea to start doing headshot photography.  It turned out to be a  really good decision.  After my background doing fashion photography the transition to headshot photography was very easy for me.  I understood about lighting and using natural light and catching people's expressions. I had some friends were doing acting and modeling and I decided to their head shots for free first. After about a year shooting headshots I got my studio in downtown Los Angeles.  I've been at the same studio for the past 10 years.  Everyday new actors come in to get their headshots.  I love meeting new people and hearing their stories and how they came to Los Angeles.  It's very rewarding to give people awesome headshots as they pursue their acting careers. I love to see people succeed in their dreams.

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