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About > Headshots
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Pictures should be alive. They should evoke a reaction, especially a headshot or portrait for a professional. |
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I did my first headshot several years ago as a favor for a friend in the acting business. At the end of the shoot I handed him the film and that was that. A few days later he called from New York, ecstatic—he loved the pictures, his agent loved the pictures. And so I started in the headshot business.
Shooting headshots is one of my favorite things to do. The idea of creating an image for a performer, writer, artist, chef, lawyer or businessperson that they will take into the professional world is very exciting. It's like helping someone along the path to their dream. I take headshots very seriously for this reason. Creating a photograph that affects someone's livelihood is no small task—certainly not one to be rushed or treated lightly. |
I think of each headshot as a collaboration between myself and my subject. It is part my style & vision and it is part their personality & character.
I want a viewer to be able to look at a headshot I worked on and know something about the person in the picture. For that reason, each shoot is unique. Each one takes a different amount of time, calls for different locations and different approaches. |
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About the Photographers...
Balance is the combination of Rissa and Nathaniel’s talents and creative passion. Photography at its core is the recording of light – be it natural or studio light. Light is what shows us where a picture is or is not. Small details and gestures become prominent through light. These are the strokes that fill in the larger canvas and they are what make up the vision of a photographer. The way a photographer sees light is what defines their style, makes them special. Rissa and Nathaniel join forces on nearly every project in some way. Balance is where their vision comes together and they create beautiful, meaningful images.
Rissa and Nathaniel are a married photography team. They met in college at Western Kentucky University in 1998 where they both studied photojournalism. On October 2, 2004 a dream came true for both when they were married at a huge wedding on Nathaniel’s family farm in Tennessee. |
Rissa Miller
Rissa has worked for two magazines and four newspapers in her career. Mostly recently she spent several years a picture editor for the Baltimore Sun, where she was part of an award-winning picture editing team. Prior to that she won contests sponsored by various professional journalism groups and Canon cameras.
Education credits include a degree in photojournalism and art history with study at Western Kentucky University, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the University of Virginia. In her youth in Pennsylvania, Rissa was a model and state champion horseback rider. She also sold a few one-act plays. Her first camera was a Kodak disc – she got it from a Girl Scout cookie sale in second grade.
In addition to photography, she is also a professional bellydancer and has worked as a print reporter and a vegetarian chef. When she’s not behind her camera, Rissa reads all the time and loves yoga, dance, cooking and making cheesecakes.
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Nathaniel Corn
Nathaniel was born to be a professional photographer in a family of professional photographers. From his earliest days, he was taking pictures and learning the skills of this art form. He got his first camera, a Polaroid, at age 6. Before college, he already made a living making portraits and had worked in the studio of a fine art printer. Nathaniel studied photojournalism and multi-media at Western Kentucky University with a minor in History. He also studied abroad in Ireland.
In combination with photography, Nathaniel’s other great passion is travel. He has been to nearly every state and on three continents. Originally from Tennessee, Nathaniel loves camping and spending time in nature. He is also an Eagle Scout.
When he’s not traveling or making photos, Nathaniel is an avid gardener and enjoys painting, soccer, collecting wines and making jewelry.
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