This weekend I read an interesting article in the New York Times titled, “A Little Too Ready For Her Close Up?”  You can check it out here. The article basically talks about how people out there, mostly the ladies, are partaking in too much plastic surgery too young and it is hurting their chances of getting cast in numerous roles.  The biggest problem I have seen with plastic surgery is that is rare that it is done extremely well so as to not notice that someone has had any work done.  Instead, the work seems to be done so carelessly and too quickly that one person’s plastic surgery looks like ten others and then, before you know it, you have done the worst thing possible, other than cut into your beautiful body, you have failed to differentiate yourself and that is CRUCIAL in this business.

One of the things I am extremely passionate about when shooting headshots is making certain that your images look like you, that they represent you.  Not only looks wise but personality wise.  I have had people tell me how much they love my work and how badly they want to shoot with me but could I make them look like someone else.  I simply tell them that I won’t do it and that they are better off working with a photographer who can do that for them. It’s not that I can’t make you look like someone else it’s that I don’t want to. I want to celebrate you and all the things that make you unique and individual by capturing that through photographs in the most honest way that I know how.

Here’s a shoot I did not too long ago with the lovely Maura.  This was such a fun shoot.  Oh, and Maura landed two gigs after sending out her first round headshots from out shoot.  Not too bad for just being yourself, huh?