Time For New Headshots
In terms of comparison shopping, I'll be honest. A lot of actors ask what a good deal is. I got 72 exposures at a rate of $225, which is a hair on the high side, but this guy does great work. I could spend less, but I would get less. This is not a place in your career to get cheap on yourself. This is your one best marketing tool, so make the investment. Every time I've gone cheap, I've paid the price. Don't learn the hard way.
If you still don't know what you're going for, and you just have to have pictures done yesterday, find one of these great photographers, and hopefully he or she can draw "you" out in your photos. Make sure the photographer takes his or her time with you and doesn't just snap-snap-snap, hoping to catch something in the moment that's spontaneous. The best photographers I've ever had can put you in great light, have your face at the right angle, etc., and still get spontaneous work out of you. My photographer today was very stingy. He only took pictures when that "quality of mine" came to the fore and was spontaneous and truthful. I was posed so that my body position, the camera angle and light were just right, but I still had to have life in my face, particularly in my eyes. It's almost all in your eyes, not unlike when you have your close-up in a film. The eyes aren't considered the window to the soul for no reason.
Sometimes music helps you, other times the photographer helps you. In my case, I've done enough shoots, that I'm finally getting a sense of how to give the photographer exactly what he needs, and he finesses it until it looks "right," particularly because in that small space, it can be easy to push the emotional quality behind the shot. I did 72 exposures, a number of which had a facial growth (after which I shaved), a number of which had eye glasses, and the rest of which were plainer. I changed outfits at least 4 or 5 times. Now, I don't plan on using 8 headshots, but one of these looks might end up being the most definitive, and that's the one I'll use as my main headshot. I might use a scruffier shot for a back-up, when necessary, and my commercial agent has been driving
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