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.
Julie is a workplace health and safety specialist and approached me with regard to producing some relaxed business portrait photographs that would show her personality and be a little different from the standard corporate photograph. This was a great brief – I enjoyed working with Julie and here are a couple of my favourite images from the photography session.
Today I was asked to photograph Anne Diamond for Health Magazine. The shoot was to take place at the Royal Berkshire Health and Racquets Club in Bracknell.Whilst it might be a wonderful place to work out and trim the waistline, sadly it didn’t offer much in terms of photogenic backdrops. If I’ve learnt one thing about location photography in the last eighteen years, it’s how to make the best out of less than stellar surroundings so we found some space behind the club (acres of carpark at the front sadly) to shoot some portraits by the tennis courts. Anne was delightful to work with and made my job easy.
Here are a couple of favourites from the shoot.
I was working in an industrial park in Aldermaston near Reading in Berkshire today. The client had asked for a corporate headshot photography session to update their website. The brief was to use the ever popular off-white background (to match in with the existing company website portraits).
I think images of your employees on the corporate website is an excellent idea – too often we see websites that feature no decent photographs. Often there is a picture or two culled from a stock library – even if you are a casual web browser you somehow sense the website has a generic, non-personal feel to it. For your target market, it can totally put potential customers off if your website has a slightly vague description of the company with no personal details. Such a site can perhaps appear evasive and not committed to serving the customer.
We all know that customers prefer to buy from real people and having some professional business portrait photographs on your ‘About’ or ‘Our Team’ pages connects your prospective and existing clients directly with you.
Sometimes for a professional photographer the assumption exists that camera and lighting skills are the most important but I feel that for business portrait photography it’s the ability to work with people that is the most important skill you can have. The expressions on the faces of the subjects can tell you a lot about the photographer. It’s absolutely vital that the subjects look relaxed and friendly so people are happy to visit your website and of course to do business with you.
If you are planning a website or brochure revamp, please call or email for details of our location portrait photography service. In the meantime, here is a small selection of images from today’s shoot.
Simon Alexander is a magician and entertainer from Wokingham in Berkshire. His website is undergoing a revamp and he asked me to shoot some new photographs for the new style of site he has planned. The idea was to move away from the expected style of cheesy magicians photography – bow ties , top hats, stuffed rabbits etc. The photographs were planned to be natural and more ‘lifestyle’ in concept (if that makes sense). I guess whatever you are selling via your website it’s natural that your prospective clients like to relate to people first, rather than a service so these images were designed for that purpose. Simon is a self-confessed photo-phobic but I think he did really well. I received an email after I sent him the images which read “…I am absolutely delighted with the photos…you’ve done a truly amazing job and really surpassed my expectations…”
Here’s a few favourites from the shoot.
