Headshots that look like you spent $400 on a studio session

The published price for a 30-minute professional headshot session in a major US city ranges from $200 at a chain studio (LifeTouch, JCPenney Portrait, The Picture People) to $500-1,500 at a brand-photography studio that delivers retouched, on-brand portraits ready for executive use. The same price band exists in London, Sydney, Singapore, and Bengaluru. The deliverable for most of those sessions is functionally what this page produces for free: a tight head-and-shoulders crop on a clean studio backdrop, sized for the circular crop LinkedIn renders, with no watermark and a commercial-use license. The remaining gap — lighting, posing direction, makeup — matters for executive-tier brand work but is overkill for a profile photo that gets viewed at 56 pixels in a Slack thread or 200 pixels on a recruiter's screen.