Owen Pryce
1 May 2026
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Both photographers have portfolios I like.
Tools & Money
Headshots: 300 or 1200, what am I actually getting for the difference?
5 replies
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Nathan Ostrowski
2 May 2026
At the top end you are paying for direction, not the camera. A good photographer gets a different face out of you, and that is the entire product.
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Gregor Malinowski
2 May 2026
Look at their galleries and ask whether every subject looks like a different person or whether they all look like the photographer's style. The second is a bad sign.
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Wes Achterberg
4 May 2026
Ask what happens if you hate them. A reshoot policy tells you a lot about how confident they are.
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Paul Etherington
4 May 2026
Photographer, so take this how you like: there are excellent people at 400 and mediocre people at 1500. Price correlates loosely at best. Referrals from actors at your level are the real signal.
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Reeva Bhandari
6 May 2026
The 300 one is a fine choice if you are early and your type is going to move in a year anyway.
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