Photographing Headshots: Create High-Impact Headshots that Flatter Your Subject

Headshots well crafted images that include the subject’s head and shoulders are big business for photographers. These types of images are needed by individuals from all walks of life from business tycoons to actors and models. Hughes’ simple processes for polished lighting and posing will come in handy when photographing every headshot client who enters your studio. Armed with these techniques, impressive sample portraits, and step by step evaluations on how to re create many of the portrait looks shown, readers will meet their headshot clients’ portrait requests with confidence. AUTHOR: Gary Hughes (M.Photog, Cr. CPP) and his wife, Julie, founded Hughes Fioretti Photography in 2008. Since then, they have continued to grow their business by establishing a reputation as THE place to get head and shoulder portraits in central Florida. In addition to operating a studio in Orlando, FL, Gary is also in demand as a photography educator, traveling often to teach his methods to photographers all over the world. His main focus as an instructor is to empower photographers to create the type of business that sets them free to live the kind of life they want to enjoy. Gary has won numerous local, state, and national awards, and his work has been featured in Professional Photographer Magazine; he has been a featured speaker for Imaging USA and Creative Live. SELLING POINTS:

Readers will learn how to effectively light head and shoulders portraits.

Readers will learn how posing the whole body, from head to toe, will enhance the overall portrait result.

Readers will learn techniques to solicit emotion and pleasant expressions for maximum image impact. 180 photos