Don't Let This Beautiful Weather Ruin Your Actors Headshot

I just thought I'd jot down a few notes on how this beautiful hot weather can affect your actors headshots

• Firstly and most obviously, drink plenty of water – and that’s a general living guide but is extremely important when we think of getting a new actors headshots. The water will help your skin to appear smooth and clear, it helps clear the body of toxins and reduce spots and dryness and above all else prevents dehydration. So remember to drink plenty of water in the week leading up to your headshotsession.

• Secondly, drinking plenty of water in the hot London weather of the moment will help to keep you cool, an important point when you are on your way to the studio for your shoot. Arriving hot and bothered will leave you feeling uncomfortable which may then manifest itself as stress leaving you unprepared to have a headshot done for some time.

• Thirdly, if you arrive overheated and sweaty you’ll have to cool down before the before the headshot photographer can begin to shoot. This is simply because your photographer cannot shoot an actors headshot when you are glistening as this will show up clearly as shiny patches around your face. Worse still if you are perspiring heavily, this will show up clearly as beads of moisture and ruin your actor’s headshot.

• Fourthly, another thing to think about is the photographer’s time. Some headshot photographers run to a very tight schedule and arriving late or not being ready to shoot when you do arrive can lead to rushed or shortened sessions as the next client may be arriving shortly. Fortunately I always allow a minimum of one and a half hours for each appointment as this leaves plenty of time for late arrivals, stress on arrival and in some cases a reluctance to have a headshot done – as I’ve discussed previously on this blog.


I hope these few tips are of use. As an actors headshot photographer in London there is more hot humid weather predicted throughout the summer.