Headshots and Cold Brews – Scottsdale & Phoenix Actor, Kid, and Business Headshots
Professional actor headshots are usually retouched—but there's an important difference between retouching a photo and changing the way you look.
Your headshot needs to represent what casting will see when you walk into the room or appear on a Zoom audition. If your photo looks noticeably different from you in real life, even technically beautiful retouching has missed the point.
What Should Be Retouched?
Good headshot retouching should be subtle.
Temporary distractions like a blemish, stray hair, lint, or minor skin redness can usually be cleaned up without changing your appearance. Small adjustments to exposure, color, and contrast can also help create a polished final image.
The goal is for someone to look at your headshot and notice you, not the editing.
What Shouldn't Be Changed?
Permanent features are part of what makes you recognizable.
Heavy skin smoothing, changing the shape of your face, dramatically whitening teeth or eyes, removing natural lines, or otherwise altering your features can create a headshot that no longer accurately represents you.
Actors don't need to look flawless. They need to look believable.
This is especially important because casting may be looking for the exact characteristics someone is tempted to edit away.
You Should Still Look Like Yourself
A professional actor headshot should look polished without looking artificial.
Ideally, someone shouldn't immediately be able to tell what was retouched at all. They should simply see a clean, professional image that looks like you on a great day.
At Headshots & Cold Brews, our Scottsdale actor headshots are professionally retouched with the actor—and casting—in mind.
Because the purpose of retouching isn't to turn you into someone else.
It's to make sure nothing in the photograph distracts from you.
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