The word 'headshot' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is generally used to refer to a photograph of a person's head and shoulders, often seen in photographers' portfolios or in actor's casting photos. For example: "I need to update my headshot to include my new hairstyle."
For fans of a plain, austere look, there is a simple Putin headshot, mouth set in an implacable determination and eyes hidden behind a pair of shades, embossed on a plain white or black t-shirt.
Another example is, and I'm a big FPS fan, is it really irks me that a headshot is an automatic kill, so if I was talking to the development team of an FPS I'd say 'Don't make characters die unless it's a vital area', and they would probably be interested and understand why I say that.
SJ: Yeah, do you remember at the party somebody had taken a photo and I asked them to make a headshot, so I printed it up and it was like 'Simon Harding, Steadicam operator' and he's standing there in his Speedo and we printed up a thousand of them.
Simon, the editor-in-chief will be back in this slot on Monday – look out for the newly-tanned headshot.
This icon is a headshot indicator, a symbol that appears throughout the game whenever the player shoots an enemy in the head.
Tucked under a thin sheet on a small bed in the centre of the room, lays a slight figure with a cardboard box on her head; attached to it is a headshot of Goody, bald headed, in the final stages of the losing battle with cervical cancer.
They slapped the image with the soles of their shoes and threw rocks at it, leaving the typically bland black and white headshot of a typically bland American executive covered in mud and spittle.
It is a portrait – a headshot – of someone, we imagine, particularly lovely or beautiful.
"This one is very difficult," he says, jabbing his finger at a headshot of a boy of eight or nine, "his parents were evicted and they might be thrown out of the country.
Blasting his skull apart with a carefully aimed pistol shot was enough to see him fall, but I was soon to realize that anything other than a clean headshot results in your target rising slowly back to their feet.
"I told people I wanted less connectivity, but really it's that I keep getting messages from actors saying, 'Here's my headshot,' " she says.
