Headshots — Los Angeles
Actors, executives, founders and teams — photographed by a filmmaker who has spent seventeen years reading faces through a lens. The whole studio comes to your home, office or set. You watch every frame land on a monitor beside you, choose your keepers before we pack up, and have the retouched files within forty-eight hours.
Tethered — you see every frame
Actors, executives, founders and teams. Tap any frame to see it full size.
They need different pictures. A theatrical headshot and a CEO portrait are not the same photograph, and shooting them the same way is why so many headshots look like everybody else's.
Commercial and theatrical looks that read your type in the half-second casting gives them.
A portrait that carries authority without looking like a corporate stock photo.
A library you can post from for a year, not one picture you get tired of in a month.
The whole company photographed in one visit, on one background, in one style.
Why this session is different
You stand there, a shutter goes off two hundred times, and you go home with no idea what you got. Days later a gallery arrives and you find out. That is the part of the experience this studio throws away.
The camera is tethered to a large monitor turned toward you. A stray strand of hair, a collar sitting wrong, a smile that is trying too hard — you see it, we fix it, and we shoot it again. Nobody leaves this studio hoping it went well.
We go through the take together at the end and mark the frames you want retouched. You walk out knowing exactly which photograph is going on your profile, instead of waiting a week to find out whether the session worked.
Casting is not screening your jawline, it is screening your eyes. So we work with something behind them — a thought, a person, a line — instead of asking you to relax and smile. Seventeen years of pointing a camera at nervous people goes into that half hour.
This is a film company. In the same session we can shoot vertical clips — a slate, a look to camera, a few seconds of you actually moving — for your casting profile, your Reels or your site. One booking, both halves of how people meet you now.
Stray hairs, a blemish that will be gone next week, a shirt that needs pressing. Not your skin texture, not your freckles, not your age. Casting directors are explicit that they are screening out photographs that do not match the person who walks in — so the retouching stops well before that line.
Sessions & pricing
No per-image licence, no charge to view your own gallery, no surprise at the end. Every session includes coming to you, the tethered monitor, the wardrobe run-through, your same-day proof gallery and web-ready crops for every platform you use.
One look, done properly
60 minutes — the fastest way to a headshot you can actually submit.
The full range of you
Two hours — enough looks to cover every way you get cast or introduced.
A year of content in one afternoon
Four hours — headshots, working frames and motion, built for founders and speakers.
Reserve online with a $100 deposit, credited in full to your session.
If there is not a single frame you would put on your profile, you do not pay for the session.
That has never happened. The offer stands anyway.
What actually happens
Nobody tells you this part, so most people arrive nervous. Here is the whole thing.
Before the day
A short call or a few texts once you book. Send photos of what you are thinking of wearing and you will get a straight answer on what will work under the lights and what will fight your face. This is free and it is the single biggest thing that separates a good session from a great one.
First 10 minutes
The lights, the background and the monitor go up in about twenty minutes in a spare room, an office or a corner of the living room — a clear space of roughly ten by ten feet is plenty. We hang your options, look at them under the actual lights, and put them in order. Nobody sat in traffic to get to a studio.
The first look
The first fifty frames are throwaways and you will be told that. They exist so the camera stops being a camera. Somewhere in there you forget it is pointed at you, and that is when the session actually starts.
The middle
Wardrobe changes, a light moved, a background swapped — commercial and warm, then grounded and dramatic, then whatever your type actually needs. You check the monitor between each one, so nothing is a guess.
Last 15 minutes
We go through the take at the monitor and star the ones you want. You leave knowing what your new headshot is. If you want a second opinion, the gallery goes up before you get home and you can send it to your agent or your manager that night.
Within 48 hours
Full-resolution files for print and submissions, casting-sized crops, a square for LinkedIn and Instagram, and a wide one for your website. Downloaded from your gallery, with no watermark and nothing else to pay.
Come prepared
Print this, screenshot it, or ignore it and bring everything — we will sort it out on the rail when we set up.
For actors
Casting is not browsing. They are scanning a grid of a hundred faces looking for one. Before your session we will decide which of these you are shooting for — and it is usually two, not one.
Warm, open, approachable. Lighter background, a real smile, eyes that are already on your side. This is the one that books the national spot.
Grounded and still. Darker key, less smile, more thought. The one that says you can carry a scene where nothing is funny.
Harder light, deeper shadow, a jaw with something behind it. For the limited-series audition you keep not getting seen for.
Alive and slightly off-balance — the frame caught a beat before the punchline, not after it. Very hard to fake, very obvious when it works.
Leaning all the way into what you actually are, instead of a softened version of it. The most under-shot look in this city.
Doctor, lawyer, detective, executive. Structured wardrobe, cooler light, competence you can read from across the room.
The studio
Your home, your office, the set you are already on. A proper lighting setup, a real background system and a monitor you can see all travel, so the photographs look like a studio made them — without you spending the morning in traffic to get to one.
Individual sessions and whole teams. For companies, everyone is photographed against the same background so the leadership page looks like one company. Travel is included across:
Further than that is usually still a yes — travel is quoted up front.
Questions
Most Los Angeles sessions land between $300 and $800, and the well-known premium studios run past $1,300. Here a 60-minute sitting with two looks and three retouched frames is $495 and the two-hour, four-look session is $795 — and that includes coming to you. In the private West Hills studio each is $100 less.
Every price on this page is the whole price. There is no per-image licensing fee, no charge to view your own gallery, and no upsell waiting at the end of the session.
A sitting is 60 minutes, a full session is two hours, and a brand day runs about four. That is the whole appointment — the wardrobe run-through at the start and choosing your keepers at the end are inside that time, not on top of it.
Your full proof gallery goes up the same day, usually within a few hours of you leaving — so you can send it to your agent or your manager that night. Retouched files land within 48 hours.
If you are against a submission deadline, a 24-hour rush is $95.
Almost everyone says this, including people who make their living on camera. What it usually means is that nobody has ever directed you, and that being photographed in silence is deeply strange.
That is the whole job. You will be told what to do with your chin, your shoulders, your hands and your eyes, and you will see it working on the monitor as it happens. Photographing badly is mostly a directing problem.
Solid mid-tones in colours that suit you, necklines that frame your face, fabrics with a little texture. Skip loud logos, tight patterns, brand-new whites and anything you have never worn before.
Bring three to five options on hangers. There is a wardrobe call before the day where you can send photos and get a straight answer, and we go through the rail together when you arrive.
Yes — professional hair and makeup is $195 and is booked with your slot. It is optional on every session. Plenty of actors book it for the commercial look and deliberately skip it for the theatrical one.
Most sessions happen where you already are — your home, your office or your set. The lights, backgrounds and monitor travel, a clear space of about ten by ten feet is enough, and the travel is already in the price across the Valley, Burbank, Hollywood and the Westside.
If you would rather come to us, there is a private studio in West Hills by appointment for $100 less. Or we can book a professional rental studio near you and pass the room fee on at cost, usually $50 to $100 an hour.
Yes. On-site team headshots start at $145 per person for six or more, and the full lighting kit travels. Everyone is shot on the same background so the finished set reads as one company.
Each person takes about five minutes and we run it on a schedule, so nobody loses half a day. New hires can be added later against the same setup. Everything about team days, including pricing for larger groups, is on the corporate headshots page.
Yes. Your retouched files come with full usage for your own promotion — casting sites, agents, your website, social, press, print. No watermark, no expiry, nothing further to pay.
Before you book
Written out in full, with the numbers, and nothing sold in them.
Tell us whether it is a casting profile, a leadership page or a whole team, and you will get a straight answer the same day — including whether a session is even the right thing for what you need.
Answered personally by Connery, seven days a week · connery@conneryfilm.com