I've been contacted to discuss doing headshots for an 11 year old boy, who is a busy, professional actor.
The mother has had them done in the past at a studio referred by his agent, but has not been happy with them. Her comment to me in our brief conversation was that the photos were "TOO perfect", and did not capture the real 'him'. She's seen headshots of other kids that look nothing like the kid, and she doesn't like that.
I've never done shots for actors before, and I suppose she's seen some of my portrait work which has a more candid feel to it(???), where I'm able to catch the kids looking less-posed. Maybe that's why she's coming to me(???). (My wife knows her through working for her, so she gave her the heads-up on my photo-hobby.) We've scheduled a longer phone meeting for tonight where I can find out more.
In the meantime...
Does anybody here at the DPC-Braintrust have this sort of experience? Examples?
Any web-links with examples would be cool.
Any advice or good questions to ask?
Thanks! :-)
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