I Stopped Paying $300 for Headshots. Here's What I Use Instead.

Need a new photo for LinkedIn? Maybe your dating profile is running a headshot from three years and one haircut ago? Or your company's team page has that one person who still hasn't submitted a photo because "I'll get around to it." You know what you should do. Book a photographer. But you also know what that means: $200-400, finding a studio that isn't booked for the next three weeks, taking time off work, showing up, trying to look natural while someone points a camera at your face, and then waiting a week for the edited images to land in your inbox. So you don't do it. You keep the old photo. Or worse, you crop a group photo from last Christmas and hope nobody notices the champagne glass at the edge of the frame. I've been that person. Multiple times. And I finally found a way out that costs less than lunch and takes less time than making coffee. The Real Cost of a Bad Profile Photo Before I get into the solution, let's talk about why this matters more than most people think. Your p