Ahhhh, well what I meant to say about the RAW files is that I simply did not touch them, just ran batch through DPP to jpeg and that is what she will see. Meaning, zero post work...except of course the settings in DPP for the conversion. Which I think for this were Neutral, sharp +4, sat +1 and that's it.
We did the hair several ways on purpose for diff looks...this is a riot of curly hair so no fussing with fly-aways...as you say, part of her "look."
The mom did not want to touch the teeth...I offered. She says the agent does not want that it gives a director looking at a headshot the false impression that her teeth are whiter than they are. I don't know if a little touch up would have been bad, but we will see if the agent herself makes a comment. If not, will leave it with what mom wants.
As for set up, I put the main up and slightly past 90 degrees back to do a little bit of short lighting and dialed the fill, which was roughly 45 diagonal off the front at 3:1. As you may remember, headshots are different that standard portraits and the face needs to be seen without lots of shadows. That's why shot 2 is likely not going to work, despite being a good shot of the kid. Both main and fill were about 3 to 4 feet from her. The hairlight about the same distance above and slightly back. After a while, I took off the eggcrate and feathered it back to light the background a little too. Personally, I like background gradients, if any, to be lighter at the top and not the bottom...seems more like real life. I metered off the different points, whereever it seemed appropriate...mostly the front of the face with the most light.
Hope that is useful info.
