The Photo Shoot Experience Matters
Part of the process of getting AI headshots has you snapping selfies of yourself and uploading them so they can process the images and come up with AI headshots. Boring. This matters because part of the contributing factor to creating truly stand-out headshots is the photo shoot experience.
The photo shoot is a fun and memorable experience that brings happiness. That happiness exudes in the photos and it shows in the results. The collaboration with a headshot photographer is also instrumental. Most of them have done thousands of sessions and have developed extensive knowledge on things like posing tips, what to wear, facial expressions, and more.
But there is much more in a photo shoot experience that comes across, particularly with being able to customize. A photographer can literally make the background fifty shades of gray until it is perfect against your face, hair, and outfit. Or they can make it fifty shades of blue, green, yellow, red – whatever colors are best to work with your overall look. They can introduce textures from different studio style backgrounds. Or, if you head outdoors, the photographer likely has scouted spots that are perfect for headshot photo shoots.
A bit more about posing… Many AI headshots that vendors use in examples on their website look like the person is not looking into the camera – they are staring just off at something else. It comes across uncomfortably unnatural. A photographer that has done thousands of headshots has countless posing tips and facial expression tips that lead to noticeably superior results.
All of these things add up. If the saying “death by a thousand cuts” loosely means lots of bad things are happening rather than one fatal moment, the opposite for a great headshot is that a thousand little things add up to deliver prime results: the camera used, the lens, lighting, the photographer, posing, your outfit, the background, facial expressions, post-production, your attitude during the session, and on, and on.