Welcome back ladies and gentlemen. If you're new here, I'm Daniel and you should probably subscribe. I don't know what's taking you so long. Anyway, today I'm here with my buddy Anthony and we are talking about the importance of having a cool and unique LinkedIn headshot. Roll that intro. Now I'm sure most of you, if not all of you, use LinkedIn and even if you don't, that's cool because you can probably use what we're going to teach you today to provide cool headshots for LinkedIn for other people who do use it. Now one thing I personally have noticed and I'm sure if you go through LinkedIn, you'll notice as well, everybody has the same cookie cutter template for a headshot. You know, it's like the standard lighting, there's a building in the background, it's the same over and over again. It's either that or they've got a picture from their cousin's baptism where they've cropped out their significant other and it's just terrible. Having a unique headshot is going to benefit you in more than one way. Firstly, if you have a unique picture right away, you're going to stand out from the other profiles. If it's the same cookie cutter thing and yours is way different, boom, that's eye catching. Secondly, if you're in a creative field, you're already flexing your creative muscles before anybody's even looked at your profile. However, there is a bit of a line that you can't really cross. I mean, you can't go into LinkedIn and have like some Picasso painting of a profile picture because instead of being eye catching and flexing your creative muscles, whoever's looking at your profiles thinking, what's wrong with this guy's face? So today, Anthony and I are going to challenge ourselves to create some unique LinkedIn headshots that'll stand out amongst that cookie cutter crowd. Roll that intro. I already said that. I get the bus. I get up, pick it up, pick it up. You see the drip, I'm fitted up. I'm in my car and get it out. I get the bus. I get up, pick it up, pick it up, pick it up. I've been on the flexing stretch time. Numberhood, all in your engines. I ain't never scared like Bone Crush. I'm thinking of doing more dramatic style shots for maybe like creators or actors. I'm thinking for maybe even musicians even. A straight down light to really put a lot of contrast and shadow on somebody's face. It's kind of dramatic. It's usually used in like horror films or anything like that to make the subject pop. And now let's see how cool Anthony can make me look. Anthony is like basically like a mugiver for photography. The same thread. Figured it out. Don't tell people at home it was the same thread. You seem smarter this way. I knew it was the same thread the whole time. After all that mugivering, we have to duct tape it anyway. Yeah, this guy would be an engineer to figure this out. The photographer is not engineers. I was in lighting at home. Dramatic. I changed the location because we're working with short tripod. I'm not a limited amount of space. So we're going to have to have you sit like kind of like so. All right, cool. Let's move it down there. Nice. So a couple adjustments to Anthony's setup because it didn't really fit in my office. Anthony, why don't you take us through what you've changed here. Okay, so we've changed the background. We actually have a backdrop. Black. We're also going to get Dan to sit down because we're having a little bit of a height issue and limitation with this stand. So by him sitting with us straight background, you won't probably tell that he's sitting if I frame him where he's from his stomach or chest up. Fairly simple setup. You only need one light. We didn't have a tall enough tripod or room here, so we kind of had to sit on the floor. But what I really did was try to get my subject Daniel to move kind of front and back. And as you can see on my hands, the shadow is kind of changed. And it gives you different looks with not moving the lights around, not really moving your subject more than a couple inches back and forth. Even if you don't have a lot of money and you good lighting, you could really just make this out of anything. And you get that nice professional look on your profile picture. My second shot, we're going to try something kind of similar as my first shot with something or light coming straight down. But we're going to do two different colors. One on my right side of my body and one on my left side. We're going to start off with blue and orange. Maybe you can try blue and red. See how it looks. And the goal is to try to get it 50-50 right down my nose. And it gives you a little bit of an artistic kind of shot. You know, it's actually awesome. This light right here is just a tungsten normal light. Yeah. It's creating like a really nice orange and blue on your face. Nice. Am I getting the 50-50 right down my nose? You look like it's stud. Wow. Okay, so for my take on what Anthony was doing, he got a really nice like teal on one side, orange on the other. I still want that split of the orange and teal. But I might try turning his face a bit, having him sit back so far to see how the light bounces. And if we can create something cool that way. For mine, I'm going to do something along the lines of what Anthony did. But a little bit different. I'm going to have the white backdrop. Subjects going to be sitting on the stool. But I'm going to use the strobe light to illuminate the backdrop. My backdrop is going to be bright red. I'm going to have some soft lighting on the subject. And I want a hair light coming from the back to just add a tiny little bit of color opposite of what the backdrop's doing. In this case, I'm going with an orange backdrop. I'm going to have a blue hair light on the back of the subject. And let's see how it turns out. It might not work out. I might have to play with the lighting a bit. But for my setup, I want to use the soft boxes and the strobes. Problem is we're going to kind of confine space. So something you can do to combat this, to combat this, I don't know, whatever. Something you can do against this is use an ND filter on your lens and set it to a darker. If you want to shoot at like F2.8 or lower, put that ND filter on. You'll be able to get the light nice and close and still get a perfectly exposed picture. There you have it ladies and gentlemen. Those are some unique LinkedIn profile pictures that I'll, you know, make you stand out from the crowd. I hope you like what Anthony and I put together. We had a great time doing it, playing with light, testing different things. We even had some happy axes. Which is going to kickstart my modeling career. If you like the video, make sure you let me know down below. Hit that like button. Leave some comments. Be like, Dan, I'm going to try everything you've guys tried today and then I'm going to tag you on Instagram. I would love that. Subscribe if you're not already and I'll catch you guys in the next video. Love ya!