My friends and I came together today for a social media meeting and one of the topics was professional head shots. They all remembered that on Twitter, if you don’t have a head shot or you load some photo or cartoon, that you have an egg as a profile picture….and they all started laughing about how nobody wants to be an egg…really, they don’t! They told me that I should immediately write a blog about NOT BEING AN EGG! I told them I would get right on it!
You see, for me, I don’t follow anyone that doesn’t use a head shot of some sort or the other. Why would you not want your photo, one that is recent, on your social media page, especially Linked In? I understand that this is a great place to put your logo, but people don’t do business with your logo…..they do business with you.
Why would you not get an updated professional photo of yourself…what could be their reason? A lot of people think that what they have from several years ago is fine. It’s not. Some people think that the photo that they took of themselves in their bathroom, in a reflection from their mirror is cool….I would rather see the egg. Kids and pets are cute from time to time, but making sure to have that professional head shot shown more than not is so important.
When we, IWP Photography & Video shoot professional head shot sessions, there are normally 2 people working with the client. You will have your own photographer, and the photographer will have an assistant. The assistant’s job is to make sure that the client is all set and ready for the shoot. We send out a note before the head shots normally to make sure the client knows how to be ready when they get here….why, because the longer the client stands around when they get here, normally the more nervous they get while they wait and it makes it harder for everyone.
We have some fun music on, we talk to them about their job and before you know it, we have amazing head shots for them to see.
Time and time again, we hear, how did you capture that? I didn’t even feel like I had my photo taken. Now why would you not get your head shot taken regularly if you had that kind of experience. For us, we enjoy it so much that it is not even like work. I think that comes through to.
So, to finish up….if you are concerned about your experience in getting a new head shot, consider how IWP Photography handles their head shot clients. Don’t be an EGG when you could be photographed so that when you walk into a room…..people already know you….trust me, it is priceless!
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Mica Parekh
tesh@iwpphotography.com
IWP Photography & Video
919-622-5399
HEAD SHOT SPECIAL UNTIL NOV. 30 ~ 2 IMAGES FOR THE PRICE OF 1 ~ $125 + TAX