So, you’re the office administrator for a company with 50 employees, and your boss has tasked you with getting headshots for everyone for the new website. You might start googling and think AI headshots are a great way to save money. Let me tell you how that’s going to go. AI headshots vs professional headshots is about way more than the money you might save.
The Process of AI Headshots
Choosing an AI Headshot Generator
First, you decide which AI headshot generator to use. Now, you need to collect 10-20 photos of each team member. You’ll spend the next two weeks tracking down everyone and reminding them to send you their favorite photos. Good luck with that! Maybe two weeks is optimistic.
Uploading and Sorting Photos
Then you upload over a thousand photos to the AI headshot generator and wait a few days for the results. The generator gives you 25-100 options per person, and now you have to get those 50 people to choose their favorite. This will take another couple of weeks of chasing people down. Or, you could spend days going through thousands of options and picking one for each person. Just hope you pick the right ones, or you’ll definitely hear about it.
DIY AI Headshots: Another Headache
Let’s say you skip that nonsense and email your team to use the AI headshot generator themselves. You’ll still be chasing them for weeks to get it done, helping those who don’t understand how to use it, and dealing with the fact that everyone’s headshot will look different.
The Cost of AI Headshots
After weeks of work, you finally finish. And look at all the money you saved! Wait, what’s that, budget team? I saved so much money that you’re slashing my marketing budget next year? That doesn’t sound good.
The Professional Solution for Headshots
Hiring a Local Headshot Specialist
Now, let’s try it a different way. You skip the ads for AI headshot generators and hire a local headshot specialist. You negotiate a price, set the date for headshots, and let’s say that photographer is me, just for argument’s sake.
Streamlined Process and Professional Results
My team creates a custom webpage for your team to select their time slots, organizing everyone into a neat schedule. We bring a portable headshot studio to your office, photograph each person, and help them choose their favorite image for retouching on-site. Within two business days, we deliver professionally retouched headshots to everyone, in individual private galleries where they can download their headshot in one click. We send you a link to a full gallery of all the headshots, organized alphabetically, which you can download in one click to deploy on your website.
Handling Remote or Absent Team Members
For remote team members or those who couldn’t make headshot day, we create a custom calendar for appointments at our studio, and we add their finished headshots to the same gallery so everything stays in one place.
Which Option is Better?
While my team handles all the work, you get to do your actual job and cross the headshot problem off your list forever.
Which option sounds better to you? On the surface, AI seems convenient. For some, it might be a good solution, but as the project scales, the work involved with AI headshots is much more than it appears. Hiring a professional headshot specialist is a better solution in pretty much every way. As a business owner, be proactive with this message and take the fight to the machines.
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