Hey everyone,
I just had some headshots taken and I was wondering if I could get some feedback. Let me know what you think.

It's not bad. I wish the photographer chose a lighter background to bring out your dark hair and outfit.

I'd get it retouched to get rid of the necklines and browlines. Necklines and browlines age everyone.

Yeah, you are blending into the background. It's also cropped in really tightly. I would like to see more of your torso. It's not horrible, at least but it's not your "it" shot.

I would suggest having your photo lab do some custom dodging on your eyes, hair and background. This will lighten the dark areas in the shot, and make you pop out of the image much more :-) That would make a world of difference.

It's somewhat atrocious, your hair blends in with the background. The shirt is a little too dark, and blends in, and you seem you have no emotion. Neutral emotion. You appear early-mid 30's, 34-37, pushing 38, age range, but I have a feeling you're more like 28. If you don't mind I can show an improve version of this photo, by me editing it a bit.

This photo ages you a bit now looking at it, since I can see an older version of yourself already. I can see you playing a grandpa for some reason (not literally in this photo, but the impression)

My two cents - I can't tell if you are biting your lips or if you just have the thinnest white boy lips I have ever seen. If you are biting them, DON'T. You do not have enough lip to pull this off. Only pouty model types should attempt this. Perhaps there are some makeup tricks or relaxing your mouth could help you take care of this. Photoshop? I dunno...

I wanted to say about the lip biting as well...if they are thin, you should maybe expose a bit of teeth, not smile, but don't push them together so.

How about posting another pic and let us see? In a different position?

it's a good photo. it's not bad.
let me say it again, it's not a bad photo. yes, some of us have thin whitey lips ;-) (me included), but if that's what he looks like, then there we go. i agree w/ WaterLover, would like to see another pic in a different position. i would like to see more of the other side of your face, as a casting director might want as well.
frankly, the picture reminded me that we should brand ourselves, and this guy has done that in his photo - a character branding of ...sneaky, young, up to something, .... ??? :-)

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Originally posted by JeGo:
it's a good photo. it's not bad.
let me say it again, it's not a bad photo. yes, some of us have thin whitey lips ;-) (me included), but if that's what he looks like, then there we go. i agree w/ WaterLover, would like to see another pic in a different position. i would like to see more of the other side of your face, as a casting director might want as well.

frankly, the picture reminded me that we should brand ourselves, and this guy has done that in his photo - a character branding of ...sneaky, young, up to something, .... ??? :-)

Didn't look that sneaky, and didn't give the impression of youth either. Even though he is possibly young, he doesn't dress young, and wrinkles don't help.

I think he also has grey hairs so I wouldn't worry about the "wrinkles." By the way, the ones on the sides of his mouth don't even count. Little boys and girls could have those lines too depending on their facial structure.

Better contrast with the hair and shirt would be nice, but you can see both fine and it's not like he comes with that background and shirt and anyone who hires him is stuck with it.

He looks versatile to me. He resembles a guy who some woman might find attractive because of the angular face/strongish jar, almost in an Abraham Lincoln kind of way but not as drastic. He could also be young, evil, and even nice. But I don't know anything.

Wow, Thanks for the responses everyone. I do have super thin lips, not biting them. Maybe I can use a little gloss or something to make them pop more. Here's from the same shoot,

For a commercial shot, I don't think this is the best you can do. You have a nice friendly smile and look. But this picture is kind of stiff. Your body is stiff and the positioning does nothing to complement your smile. In addition, the background is doing nothing for you and is not really a good background for a commercial shot.

On the original shot you posted, I agree that the expression was too neutral and didn't really leave an impression on me.