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You might want to google "actor head shot" and take a look. Pay particular attention to anything that's character actor oriented or oriented to historical plays. What she's probably looking for isn't just your basic squared, dead center head shot that looks like it could go on in a passport but something with a bit more personality.
Even standard actor head shots do tend to use things like diagonal lines, 3/4 poses, people looking over their shoulders, anything that makes the shot personal and helps them stand out from the crowd.
Unless you're using a completely neutral background, usually it's white or black, and making the person the complete focus of the shot about the worst thing you can do is use a flat background like that, old-fashioned bricks or not. Honestly, that background makes them both look the same and more like standard portrait studio/school picture day shots than actor head shots.
You'd have to vary that and use different poses or they will all come out looking way too generic for a Ren troupe. If you're talking Ren Faire, then why not do them in clothing vaguely akin to their usual costumes, at least in so far as the shirt goes.
Why let them all dress them up all like Joe Schmoe? That doesn't tell you much about what they'd look like on the job and if I was going to be advertising or hiring for that I'd definitely expect to see a far more artsy look to their clothing than this.
They're actors. I've never met an actor yet, particularly a Ren actor that looks like this unless they're dressed down for the day job or something. (I used to do Ren work actually.) These guy actually have wonderful historical "theatre" character actor faces but in these pics they both look more like someone's next door neighbor who probably works in some casual corporate office or something than actual creative types.
They don't have to be in full blown get up complete with doublet, unless they prefer that, and she does too, but getting them out of the normal menswear you might see them on the street and into something with something less modern usually helps.
They'd probably give you more to work with if you did. Ren actors tend to have a lot more personality when they are in their theatre type clothes than not. They get into it and relax a lot, and generally have more fun thereby giving you what you want.
Even standard actor head shots do tend to use things like diagonal lines, 3/4 poses, people looking over their shoulders, anything that makes the shot personal and helps them stand out from the crowd.
Unless you're using a completely neutral background, usually it's white or black, and making the person the complete focus of the shot about the worst thing you can do is use a flat background like that, old-fashioned bricks or not. Honestly, that background makes them both look the same and more like standard portrait studio/school picture day shots than actor head shots.
You'd have to vary that and use different poses or they will all come out looking way too generic for a Ren troupe. If you're talking Ren Faire, then why not do them in clothing vaguely akin to their usual costumes, at least in so far as the shirt goes.
Why let them all dress them up all like Joe Schmoe? That doesn't tell you much about what they'd look like on the job and if I was going to be advertising or hiring for that I'd definitely expect to see a far more artsy look to their clothing than this.
They're actors. I've never met an actor yet, particularly a Ren actor that looks like this unless they're dressed down for the day job or something. (I used to do Ren work actually.) These guy actually have wonderful historical "theatre" character actor faces but in these pics they both look more like someone's next door neighbor who probably works in some casual corporate office or something than actual creative types.
They don't have to be in full blown get up complete with doublet, unless they prefer that, and she does too, but getting them out of the normal menswear you might see them on the street and into something with something less modern usually helps.
They'd probably give you more to work with if you did. Ren actors tend to have a lot more personality when they are in their theatre type clothes than not. They get into it and relax a lot, and generally have more fun thereby giving you what you want.