Should Headshots be Portrait or Landscape?
Here we are in a New Year were does the time go? One minute it's January 2013 next thing ya know it's January 2014. Well Happy belated 2014!
So now you have taken that amazing acting headshot and you're ready to print but the photographer took the headshot in the landscape orientation. Oh Oh! What do you do? Have it printed in landscape or crop to the portrait orientation? Your acting coach says "dont print in landscape you kill yourseeeeeelf!" Maybe she didn't say you'll kill yourself but it was something close to that. So do you take her advice and crop and print in portrait style. Was that wrong? Should you have done it in landscape? The answer is either is fine, currently there are tons of modern photographers capturing and printing acting headshots in landscape, as well as tons of old school photogs capturing actor headshot in portrait. So what does this all mean, are the casting directors getting confused and setting fire to the landscape shots? No, remember the casting director has a job to do if the shot is a shot of an actor that they are looking to cast, they are not saying man if this guy would have printed in portrait I would have given him the job, but because this headshot is in landscape I hate it! "and were is my lighter" My belief is like many things in photography it can be very subjective. My advice would be get the best shot of yourself with a quality photographer, and the rest will take care of itself.
written by Kerry James
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Really very nice headshot photography. I want to see more updates of your photography.
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