Made it!!!

Hooray!! I'm so excited... I've just done a google check on my website name, I just typed in 'rt photographics'; I didn't add any more than that, no 'UK' or 'Scotland', or 'portrait photographer', 'headshots for actors', none of that... just 'rt photographics', and there it is, number 1 on the first page! Hooray!!!

So a HUGE thank you to everyone who has ever clicked through to my website, and for all of you who read my blog updates. I'm incredibly pleased and happy and excited, and it's all thanks to you!

x.

The website is updated all the time, as new photos come in and the advice pages change, keeping up to date with all the latest information and facts to help get your headshots noticed!

If you haven't visited the website for a while, pop by and see what's new... then come back next week and see what else is new!! It's so exciting, it's forever changing, evolving, and growing and it's all down to you. Thank you :D

I have another photo shoot on Friday with a beautiful wee girl in Meigle, just down the road from us here in Blairgowrie.

There are some more Scottish actor's headshots to come, and another trip to the studio in London in October, for even more headshots... there are a couple of places left; if you need headshots that work for you, email me rebecca@rtphotographics.co.uk and we'll get you booked in! If you can't make it in October, don't worry, e-mail me anyway and we'll arrange a suitable time for you.

So please do keep on clicking through, have a look at the website and see what's new on the advice pages and in the galleries. With so much happening, there's always something new to see!

Rebecca, x

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Dan

It's always good to work with actors as they are already so much more relaxed in front of the lens, but when the actor happens to be young, fun and exciting... it's good!!!!!

Dan is about to start his second year at Mountview Academy in London, studying for a degree in Musical Theatre. He'll be needing headshots for this year and so we set up the mobile studio and let it all happen. We went for different looks, changes of clothes, different backdrops, all to get a good selection from which he could choose the style he wants and needs later on in the year.

I'm so excited about that as we had a great session and I can go down to London later in the year knowing that Dan will be happy and we will nail the perfect headshot for him. Already thrilled with what we've done, Dan is looking forward to the next session... as are his colleagues who also need headshots and have asked me to help them. Good times!!

Why not use the ones from last week? Well, the students all need up to date headshots that portray them as they are now... or then as it will be!!

Hair lengths, styles and colours change, weight fluctuates, and all must be current, so he can't really use these shots, but they are a perfect foundation upon which we can build and so no time is lost or wasted. Preparation and planning!!

Actors headshots are their business cards, they are crucially important to their careers and they have to know that they are getting what they need... which is not always the same thing as what they want! It's a totally different thing to normal portraits, both in terms of photography and presentation, so we have to be sure that the headshots fit the industry standard requirements.

If they don't, the headshot goes straight in the reject bin and so will the CV and audition application that it's attached to!! Actors have a couple of seconds to make an impression, and it's the headshot that does that for them. If it doesn't look like them, casting panels will just see us all as wasting their time. I don't want that, Dan doesn't want that, his colleagues don't want that.

I take the headshots business extremely seriously and that is why I am so excited about my next trip down to London! It is all seriously good times!! :-D

Rebecca, x

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Down in London Town!

WOW, talk about 'hot in the city'!


Deon Adams (c) rtphotographics 2009

Probably not what Billy idol (or whoever it was) was singing about, but my word, it was HOT! Sweltering, sweating hot!!

I was down in London a couple of weeks ago to work on some headshots with a group of 7 young actors, all of whom are working hard and very nearly at the end of their first year at the Mountview Academy in London.


Jeffrey Socia (c) rtphotographics 2009

Their week at the Academy is unbelievably hard and how they manage it in the heat I really don't know! I have nothing but absolute and utmost respect for these incredible young people.


Leigh Lothian (c) rtphotographics 2009

I set up the studio in the top floor apartment of a town house in Palmers Green. There is a huge balcony up there and loads of natural light as well as studio lighting, so all was looking good. I hadn't bargained on the heat from the enormous windows though. Wow. Hot and thirsty work. I haven't drunk that much water since my first attempts at swimming in the English Channel over 30 years ago!!


Leah Shears (c) rtphotographics 2009

Each session lasted a little less than an hour and the time flew. It was an absolute pleasure and a privilege to spend that time with the students, and talking to them, finding out a bit more about them. As well as being interesting and fun, it's also the best way to help them relax and put themselves across in their headshots.

They were all 7 very different people; different backgrounds, different experiences, different approaches to life and hopes for the future. Their personalities need to come across in their headshots. It needs to be 'them' that a casting panel sees, not a lovely photo of someone airbrushed beyond all recognition.


Greg Airey (c) rtphotographics 2009

If they are more serious or quiet by nature, that needs to show. If they are fun and bubbly, that should be in the headshot. It is the only thing they have to show a casting panel who they are. They won't get an audition without one, unless they are incredibly lucky and are incredibly famous!


Grace Gardner (c) rtphotographics 2009

With the amount of dedication and enthusiasm these young folks have, as well as bags of talent, I am quite sure these are names and faces we shall all get to know in the future! I can't wait for the day when I can say "oh yes, I knew them before they were famous!"


Paula Masterton (c) rtphotographics.co.uk

Thanks everyone, so very much, for all your hard work on such a terribly hot day!! It really was a pleasure to meet with you all and work with you all.

Rebecca,x

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