Professional Corporate Headshots – Bringing Personality Into the Workplace
A professional headshot is often one of the first opportunities a client, colleague or potential customer has to put a face to a name.
Over the Summer I’ve been working with a number of corporate clients to create professional headshots and profile photography within their own office environments – producing images that feel polished and professional, while still looking natural, approachable and individual.
More Than Just a Headshot
Rather than photographing everyone against a traditional studio backdrop, shooting within the workplace allows us to incorporate elements of the company’s own environment into the photographs.
Office architecture, meeting spaces, windows, corridors and other carefully selected areas can provide subtle backgrounds that help give the images a sense of place without distracting from the person being photographed.
The result is a collection of portraits that feels much more connected to the business and its people.
A Consistent Look Across Your Team
For businesses, consistency is particularly important.
Staff photographs often appear across company websites, LinkedIn profiles, proposals, presentations, press releases, recruitment materials and marketing campaigns. Having a professionally photographed set of portraits creates a much stronger and more cohesive impression than using a mixture of photographs taken at different times and in different styles.
When photographing a team, I aim to create that consistency while still allowing each person's individual character to come through.
Not everyone feels completely comfortable in front of a camera, so a large part of the process is keeping the session relaxed, providing simple direction and making sure people don't feel as though they need to know how to "pose". This is very often a good ice breaker, as they get to see me 'being them and showing them some posing styles.
Often, the best photographs happen once people forget about the photography and simply become themselves.
Photography That Fits Around the Working Day
Bringing the photography directly to the client's workplace also makes the process considerably easier when photographing multiple members of a team.
I can establish a suitable location and lighting setup within the office and photograph people individually throughout the session, minimising disruption to the working day.
Depending on the brief, we can also create a combination of formal headshots, more relaxed environmental portraits and wider profile images, giving the business a useful library of photography for different applications.
Does Your Team Need New Headshots?
Whether you're updating a company website, welcoming new members to the team, refreshing your brand or simply replacing an assortment of outdated profile photographs, professional headshots can make a significant difference to how your business presents itself.
I provide corporate headshot and profile photography on location, working with businesses to create a style of photography that complements their brand, workplace and people.
If your company could benefit from a fresh set of professional headshots or staff profile photographs, I'd be very happy to discuss what you're looking for and how we could approach the shoot.
Please get in touch to discuss your next corporate photography project.
