Guest Interview with Toby Lee, Headshot Photographer

Toby Lee started taking headshots of fellow drama students because he had a camera and they were spending a fortune on photographers - it's now his full-time business. He explains why the first five minutes of a headshot session are really about talking someone out of their nerves, not taking a single photo, and how business headshots evolved from a plain background and a stiff smile into something far more considered.Headshots carry more weight than people expect. The High Stakes of Headshot Photography: Why a Single Photo Can Make or Break a Career makes the case for just how high the stakes really are.