How to relax during (nay, even enjoy!) your headshot session
Unless you're under six years old, preternaturally gregarious, or in a profession that frequently finds you in front of a camera, you may find it difficult to relax during your…
How Your Corporate Headshot Can Express Your Brand
We photograph corporate headshots and environmental portraits for clients ranging from solopreneurs to CEOs of conglomerates. Whether your brand is solely YOU or a small-or-medium business or a Fortune 500…
Our LinkedIn Headshot Poll Results are In!
We ran a poll on LinkedIn recently to find out what our clients and prospects think takes priority when you're trying to nail a great headshot. #1 LinkedIn Selection: Lighting…
How to Safely Shoot a Corporate Team Portrait during Covid
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, our friends at The Harris Residential Team are growing! They've added several new real estate agents and a new chief operating officer to work with team…
Headshot Lessons from my Youngest Clients
Happy January, you hardworking humans! This is the traditional month to assess last year's achievements then update, rejig or completely overhaul the game plan for this year. Are you putting your best…
Personality with a capital P
Corporate headshots don't have to be somber. The exuberance of these two clients belied the term "Mad Men" -- no wonder their advertising agency is so successful!
Actually, the client IS sometimes wrong
This financial services client kept insisting he's not photogenic. Given these environmental portraits for promotional and marketing collateral, I beg to differ.
One headshot, multiple crops, different uses
Think through your headshot. To convey your work environment or industry, environmental photos work best. Website? Consider look & feel -- what fits with the content? Sometimes a single shot…
Environmental Shots for Marketing
I also did headshots for this executive coaching firm on Wall Street, but spent the bulk of day's shoot on photos for online and offline marketing. Professional, upbeat, relaxed --…
Law firm headshots
With good portable lighting and a quality paper backdrop, I was able to achieve remarkable consistency among the headshots of 36 attorneys at a NYC law firm. I`The shoot took…
Headshots you can eat
As a former corporate attorney myself, I loved how creative these Schwartz Perry & Heller attorneys got with their headshots for the holidays. Headshots: Headshots you can eat (I'm told they…
“Candids” of business executives
Those candid shots you see in annual reports and marketing materials? 99.9% of the time they're posed, and most are simply not believable. It's a challenge, to be sure ---…
Law Student
This law student scored a great internship with a leading non-profit for which she needed headshots. Though it's the middle of winter, the weather was gorgeous, so we headed outside…
Take it outside, please
Many corporate photo shoots are done on site at their offices or in my studio, and this makes a lot of sense. I can control the lighting, get more consistent…