To the eye, the world is a very complicated place. Everywhere you look are lines and shapes and signs upstaging one another. My role as a headshot photographer is to focus attention on my subject, to simplify the world so that my subject stands out from both the background and the competition.
 
Whereas some headshot photographers prefer to shoot outdoors, and advertise what they refer to as natural light, I really believe that the light and the weather are unreliable, and the backgrounds are overly complicated, stealing focus. The studio, however, is the perfect place for simple and powerful headshot photography, focusing only on you.
 
I love the classic look of the clean white background, made famous by the likes of Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, and perennially popular in modern fashion photography. Headshots, however, are not about fashion. Like the background, I believe the clothing should be simple, never stealing focus. If the casting directors take only a second to look at your headshot, we want them to focus on you, not the clothing or background, for every millisecond.
 
For my style of headshot, the best shirts are black, without logos or other embellishments, and collarless. Collared shirts are sometimes suitable, and we will take the time to try a range of looks for you. The suitability of high or low necklines, as well as their shapes, depends on variables like the colour and length of your hair.
 
The combination of black shirt and white background produces good contrast, and reproduces well in print and online, so these headshots are suitable for Spotlight and Casting Call Pro.