Choosing your outfit for your actors headshot photography session can make a big impact on the way the photos turn out, and you want to make sure to select clothing that will be comfortable and attractive at the same time. The goal with the headshot is to make you appear confident, talented and emphasise your face and your eyes instead of the clothing. Celebrity Headshot photographer Rory Lewis offers tips and advice for What to Wear for Your Actors Headshots Session.

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Devin McElvogue: A Headshot in Copper and Grey
Devin McElvogue: A Headshot in Copper and Grey

Some faces arrive at the studio already halfway to a painting. Devin McElvogue walked into the Downtown Los Angeles studio with a head of tight copper curls, a red beard, and a pair of hazel eyes that, under the right light, turn almost amber. A gift for a portrait photographer, but also a responsibility: when a sitter’s colouring is this distinctive, the headshot has to render it truthfully. Casting directors are not booking an idea of a redhead. They are booking Devin.

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Los Angeles Model Headshots: Christian Bell – The Two-Tone Statement
Los Angeles Model Headshots: Christian Bell – The Two-Tone Statement

Christian Bell stepped into the Downtown Los Angeles studio carrying a look that immediately commands attention. The striking two-tone afro — rich dark curls giving way to a crown of silver-white — became the defining feature of the session, but it was the face beneath it that made the images sing.

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Los Angeles Actor Headshots: Travis Quentin Young – Louisiana Roots, LA Range
Los Angeles Actor Headshots: Travis Quentin Young – Louisiana Roots, LA Range

Travis Quentin Young brought the full weight of his Louisiana upbringing and Los Angeles-honed versatility into the Downtown Los Angeles studio. Born in Lake Charles and already performing on national television by the age of ten, Young carries a quiet authority that belies his years on screen.

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Los Angeles Actor Headshots: Billy Hirsch – Brooklyn Bite Meets West Coast Cool
Los Angeles Actor Headshots: Billy Hirsch – Brooklyn Bite Meets West Coast Cool

Billy Hirsch arrived at the Downtown Los Angeles studio with the same unfiltered energy that defines his work. Brooklyn-born and now a Southern California transplant, he carries that unmistakable East Coast edge softened by West Coast ease — a combination that makes him instantly compelling on camera.

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Thirty-minute update headshots — New York, one day only
Thirty-minute update headshots — New York, one day only

One day of thirty-minute update headshots in Midtown Manhattan — two looks, one image fully retouched, and the only date I am offering them in New York this year.

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London's Finest Actors' Headshot Photographer — Four Sittings, and a Word About November
London's Finest Actors' Headshot Photographer — Four Sittings, and a Word About November

People sometimes ask me why an actor should sit for a headshot with a portrait photographer rather than a headshot photographer. It is a fair question, and the honest answer is that the distinction shouldn't exist. A headshot is a portrait — it is simply a portrait with a job to do. It has to walk into a casting director's inbox at nine in the morning, sit alongside three hundred others, and make somebody stop scrolling. That is not achieved with a white seamless and a ring light. It is achieved by looking properly at a face, understanding what it does, and lighting it the way the old masters lit theirs: with intent.

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Clancy Brown at the Table
Clancy Brown at the Table

Last week Clancy Brown came to the Downtown Los Angeles studio, and I finally had the chance to build a picture I have been carrying around in my head for some time: a man at a table, with bread and wine and fruit in front of him, lit the way the Old Masters lit their suppers.

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Two Leaders, One Week: Portraits from the United Nations
Two Leaders, One Week: Portraits from the United Nations

Some weeks stay with you. This one, at the United Nations in New York, is among them.

During this year's General Assembly I had the privilege of photographing two leaders I have had the honour of sitting before my camera in the past: His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan, and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Andy Burnham.

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One-to-One Portrait Photography Tuition in New York
One-to-One Portrait Photography Tuition in New York

Private, intensive photography tuition led by Rory Lewis — an award-winning portraitist recognised by the National Portrait Gallery, Portrait of Britain, and Hasselblad Masters.

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Introducing My Private Photography Tuition Community
Introducing My Private Photography Tuition Community

A dedicated space for my workshop and tuition clients to continue their journey with ongoing support, resources, and direct access.

After years of running headshot workshops and one-on-one tuition sessions in New York, London and Los Angeles, I’ve created a private Telegram group exclusively for my tuition clients.

This is not a general photography community — it is a focused, members-only space where you will find:

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