I was asked to photograph a CEO of a major IT company at a business park in Leatherhead in Surrey. The aim was to get away from the standard dull ‘passport’ style photograph and create something a little bit more individual.
Here are a couple of the portraits that caught my during the editing.
Ian Keable is an entertainer and magician from London and he approached me for a portrait for his new show and tour. The act is based around the magic of Charles Dickens (apparently an enthusiastic amateur magician).
The finished portrait was to be reminiscent of a Victorian portrait so I opted for a slightly more dramatic form of lighting than I would normally use. That, and the the post-processing of the image convey that feel. Comments welcome as always.
Today I was asked to photograph some business portraits at a legal firm near Reading in Berkshire. The company has been undergoing a rebrand and part of the plans included a new website.
Most bio photographs on websites (if they exist at all) often tend to be head and shoulders passport style images. These are normally great as you can recognise the subject even when the image is small.
In this case we decided to make them environmental photographic portraits i.e. including some of the office background and making the images a little larger. Colour portraits are great but the decision to print them in black and white was taken so that the photographers were ‘cleaner’ in appearance and didn’t compete or clash with the website colours.
If you are rebranding, launching a new website or just fancy a change form the normal kind of business photographs please get in touch with me on 0118 9885088 for a chat.
Alan Hudson, magician and comedian extraordinaire visited recently for a photography session. The plan was to promote his show at the Edinburgh Fringe later this year. I’d photographed Alan before and this time we went for a different look with a white background for maximum flexibility in using the images for posters and general promotion.
As always, Alan was great to photograph and made it easy for me to capture a variety of different looks in the studio. I try and resist the temptation to lapse into clichés when photographing magicians, musicians and the like and photograph in a style that lets their personalities come forward rather than rely on props to convey an impression of what they are like as entertainers. I was really pleased with these photographs – here’s a few favourites from the session.
A very nice lady called Sue, a business coach and management trainer, booked me for a headshot session recently. Every time I schedule a business portrait at my studio near Reading in Berkshire people always remark that it’s something they have been meaning to get around to for ages. Apart from using it to bring a website to life and to connect with your potential customers, a nice portrait photograph is so useful for networking sites like Linkedin and of course Facebook and other sites. I think subliminally we are always slightly suspicious of a lack of avatar on internet forums and small business websites. Some say that a bad or unflattering photograph is worse than no photograph at all on your website. For me, it’s always been about the expression – it has to be warm and sincere in my view for a typical small business application.
If you are interested in a professional headshot session, please call me on 0118 9885088 for details and availability.
Here are a couple of favourite photographs of Sue from the session.
