Image is everything.
Professional photography is essential for your intentional branding that conveys the image your business and how clients feel about working with you. Your logo, tagline, color selections, business cards, social channels, and web site work together to form the image, and feeling a prospective client creates about your business.
Our Focus
WE focus our lenses on professionals in their work environment, businesses, buildings, and equipment. The imagery that defines your services, values and culture. These images build credibility and define the relationship clients have with your business.
We Capture
- Headshots
- Portraits
- Lifestyle
- Events
- Corporate Staff
- Personal Branding Imagery
- Reportage and Events
Our Image is Your Brand
An image is where the tangible and intangible collide to invoke feeling within the observer.
The Headshot
Introduce yourself to the world.
You’ll see them on corporate websites, business cards, and social channels. It introduces the subject so they are easily recognized in person and communicates a subtle message of trustworthiness, friendliness, and approachability.
Scope
A professional headshot is cropped tightly and focus on the subject’s face filling most of the frame.
Function
Your headshot is the foundation that develops a first impression by presenting an authentic, approachable image of you and your professionalism.
Corporate Photography
Professionals in their work environment.
When you are building a new website for your business, it’s easy to get distracted by the design and layout of the site. Don’t overlook one of the key components of your business, your staff and location.
Scope
Provides a consistent and professional look for your staff photography in their work environment, services, equipment and facilities.
Function
Maintains your image and unifies your brand by providing a cohesive look for your website and social channels. Extension of your brand with personable and identifiable images.
Personal Branding Photography
Share a bit yourself.
People buy from people they trust. Personal branding photos allows your potential clients see the human being behind the brand. Intentional branding imagery for marketing focuses on your unique style and business.
Scope
These business focused portraits capture you at work depicting a routine, products, working with clients, or you on work a location.
Function
Stock imagery to promote you and your services on your website, marketing materials and social media accounts.
The Portrait
Natural and authentic reflection of you.
A portrait is an artistic representation of the person and appear in creative environments like magazines billboards and other print media, and website articles. Portraits often have dramatic lighting for an artistic feel. It introduces the subject in context with their story.
Scope
A portrait captures the subject head to toe putting their personality, features, proportions, and style where the subject, foreground and back ground all contribute telling a richer story surrounding the subject.
Function
Creatively displays the emotion, essence, and character of the subject telling a richer story.
Reportage and Event Photography
Preserving a moment.
Reportage photography captures images that convey the atmosphere of a formal social gathering. The smiles your guests during the presentation of a product or a launch conference of a new brand even sitting next to Santa.
Scope
Displays the emotion of the attendees delivers that images make you feel like you were there with spontaneous portraits of clusters of attendees, products, venue, signage and catering.
Function
Promote and generate interest in the occasion itself and your business product and services.
Our Work Flow
Defines the context of the product we are delivering and your the vision for the shoot. Knowing how you plan to use your images impacts the what, where and how we shoot. This will include the scope of the project, duration onsite and details about you and your business. We will talk about your specific requirements such as the:
- Objective,
- Artistic Narrative,
- Wardrobe Changes,
- Duration, and
- Budgeting.
We shoot individuals in natural light at the BRIT. However, most of the staff headshots, portraits and branding shoots are captured on location at clients' offices.
We setup our portable studio at your location in about an hour. For headshots we need a 12’x12’ enclosed area with a quiet environment and a power outlet to set up our camera, lighting, backdrops, and computer equipment.
- at least 12'x12' area
- enclosed space
- Power
Capturing several tightly cropped headshot images of one individual takes about 15 minutes. Portraits and branding shoots are defined by the location, wardrobe changes and needs of the client. A carefully chosen light and bright space may take an hour to capture several wonderful corporate, branding and lifestyle portraits.
Once all the photo selections are made via the image proofing process the images are edited for a consistent and cohesive look. Glamor or business retouching services are available at an extra cost.
Final images are delivered electronically in several resolutions and file types based on your needs.
Editing Services
Basic headshot editing is included with every headshot. This retouching process creates a realistic representation of you, beauty marks and all. Only distracting elements in the headshot photos are removed.
- Gentle skin toning.
- Soften blemishes and scars.
- Basic touch ups to facial hair.
- Background clean-up.
This retouching process is more technical and the edits are made to present a more youthful glamorous appearance.
- Creating a smooth airbrushed look skin tone.
- Removing blemishes scars, wrinkles, and birthmarks.
- Touch ups to facial hair and eyebrows.
- Whitening teeth and eyes.
- Defining lip contour and plumping lips.
- Adding digital makeup that looks natural.
- Smoothing hair and adding volume and highlights.
- Face reshaping and contouring.
- Background clean-up.
Business headshots have a specific goal to make you look reliable, confident, and authoritative while reflecting your natural look and style.
- Skin toning to lightly soften blemishes, scars, and wrinkles.
- Touch ups to facial hair and eyebrows.
- Whitening teeth and eyes.
- Facereshaping and contouring.
- Removing stray hair.
- Fixing clothes.
- Background clean-up.
Getting Ready
Grooming and Wardrobe are the most important tasks to consider when getting ready for your shoot.
Do not wear Transitions Lenses. The lighting triggers lense to turn into sunglass obscuring your eyes.
Get a haircut about a week before your headshot. This allows time for the hair to grow back and look more natural without harsh fresh cut lines. Your hairstyle should reflect how you look in person. Wash and style your hair as usual with the same products that you use every day.
Wardrobe: Solid colors are better than patterns. This goes for jackets, dress shirts, ties, and polo shirts that is appropriate to your profession or brand.
Keep color choices in the mid-tone range, plain colors are the best. Avoid flesh tones, beige, peach, browns, or yellows. No logos or graphic-Tees unless it’s an integral part of your story or brand.
Please make sure the clothes are wrinkle-free and clean. Inspect the garment closely for loose threads, missing buttons and wrinkles. Try it on and give it a close look in the mirror making sure it fits.
Avoid transparent clothing.
Makeup should be a light to medium enhancing your look without appearing overdone or unnatural. When in doubt, go with less makeup. Bring your makeup and hair products with you for touch-ups.
Men typically do not pay attention to the tiny details when it comes to their appearance- we’ve identified a few things to guide men through getting ready for a shoot.
If you’re getting your hair cut, this is the time to talk to your barber or stylist about trimming nose and ear hair, and shaping unruly eyebrows.
If your daily routine includes shaving your head then do it the day of your session. If you shave your head every few days wait.
Know your skin type and avoid razor burn. Keep your look groomed and professional. Consider indulging in a professional shave. Do not ignore nose hair, ear hair, or untrimmed eyebrows, it’s really important.
If your shirt fabric is light weight, wear an undershirt.
Avoid puffed sleeves and cowl neck blouses, anything that makes you look wider. If this is a portrait or corporate shoot avoid sleeveless and sheer outfits.
