Do Glasses Make You Look Smarter in Your Headshot?
Do glasses make you look smarter? They can. Glasses tend to make you look smarter; depending on the frames, they can also make you look a bit less attractive. In 2011, Helmut Leder, Michael Forster and Gernot Gerger at the University of Vienna ran four experiments on how glasses change the way faces are perceived, […]
Fair or Not: Corporate Headshots and First Impressions in Boston
When someone lands on your company’s team page, they’ve already formed a snap judgment about whether your firm is trustworthy and competent, sometimes in well under a second, before they’ve read a single line of your bio. For services businesses across Boston, where the people are the product, that makes consistent, professional corporate headshots in […]
The $39 AI Headshot That Could Cost You a Job in Boston
Thirty-nine dollars for a headshot that beats your phone’s selfie camera is a genuinely good deal. I’m not going to pretend otherwise, and if you’re a job seeker in the Boston market with zero budget for a professional headshot photographer, an AI generator is a reasonable stopgap. That’s the honest answer, even coming from someone […]
New Hire Headshots in Boston: Matching Your Team’s Shoot
A company headshot day happens once or twice a year. New hires don’t stop coming just because the shoot is over, and every one of them needs a headshot that matches the rest of the team. It’s the most common maintenance problem I see with corporate headshots in Boston: the original shoot looked sharp, and […]
Hey Boston! Is Your LinkedIn Photo Engaging or Meh?
An engaging LinkedIn headshot does three things at once: it looks like you on a genuinely good day, it reads as competent, confident and approachable within the first fraction of a second someone sees it, and it’s consistent with how you show up in person. A “meh” photo does none of those, and the data […]
How to Plan a Corporate Headshot Day
Pulling twenty attorneys out of a downtown Boston office for headshots used to mean losing an afternoon to a studio across town. It doesn’t have to work that way anymore. First, my studio is in the SOWA building in the South End of Boston, a mere :10 Uber ride from the Financial District. On […]