NYC Headshots Contest 2009 – Winners!
The results are in!
With over 2,000 unique voters giving their opinion, it’s time to see who came out on top…
After running the results through my handy-dandy duplicate removing system, here are the final results… and it was close!
| Tahir Register | 426 |
| Calvin Winbush | 387 |
| Dolores Quintana | 309 |
| Taavon Gamble | 227 |
| Nikki Souvertjis | 196 |
| Nora Hanlon | 101 |
| Tara de Guzman | 82 |
| Kelly B. Lewis | 81 |
| Maria Chavez | 56 |
| Alexa Gonzalez | 41 |
| Jennifer Weedon | 38 |
| Andrea E. | 24 |
| John Pilliod | 19 |
| Kristina Walker | 9 |
| Rob Douglas | 8 |
| Bobby Moreno | 5 |
| Tamia Burton | 5 |
| Evan J. Palazzo | 4 |
| Soniya Johnson | 4 |
| Kenneth Cruz | 4 |
Congratulations to Tahir Register and Calvin Winbush, who both used their network of friends and fans to boost them to the finish line!
Here’s a last look at their current photos… soon, they’ll have some brand new NYC Headshots to show off!
Tahir Register
Calvin Winbush
Headshots, Contests, & Promoting Your Career
So what can we learn from a contest like this? Is there anything to take away from it all? I think so!
None of us exists in a vacuum… at a certain point, we all need support. And as actors, support (and a healthy amount of self promotion) is truly one of the biggest factors in pushing your career forward.
Look for a post later this week reflecting on the contest, what I learned as a result, and how you can turn these results into a tool for promoting your acting career.
In the meantime, use this opportunity to wish Tahir and Calvin a warm congratulations, and to all of our finalists who are also pursuing their dreams.
As a thank you to everyone who took part in the contest, any finalist who books a NYC Headshot session before 2010 will receive $50 off a 3-Look session or $75 off a 5-Look session.
And for the remainder of November, anyone who books a headshot session and mentions the contest receives an extra Hi-Res, retouched image with their session package.
Anyone wishing to take a look at the final numbers can download an Excel spreadsheet with the unique identifying characters: Headshot Contest 2009 Voting .
