Hey everyone Marcelo Silva here and I just wanted to share my thoughts on the art of the head shot.
I shot with a young talented Australian actor Alex Cherman. Alex has done some modelling before so working with him was a delight because of how professional he was.
One of the things that I need from my models when doing a head shot is that the tip of their eye lids need to be touching the tip of their irises (this is a softer version of the squint).
One of the other things you need to do when taking head shots is that you want to be shooting at their eye level.
In head shots the most vital thing for casting agents look for is the eyes of the actor (the eyes are the window to the soul). It is vial that the photographer not only nails focus on the eyes but the photographer also needs to go into Lightroom or Photoshop to really make the eyes pop.
I had a lot of fun shooting with Alex check out his Instagram here and his IMDB.