Turnkey Planning Solutions
I love it when I can mix headshots with some editorial and lifestyle work. It's a common request. Businesses need headshots and they also want some more relaxed at work and at play shots to populate their website with. It's a good use of time for many businesses.
I love it when I can mix headshots with some editorial and lifestyle work. It's a common request. Businesses need headshots and they also want some more relaxed at work and at play shots to populate their website with. It's a good use of time for many businesses.
Professional Headshots for Azeema Ameerally
Maybe you need an updated headshot, a better headshot, maybe you're about to make a career change or add a side hustle. Professional headshots are important in our visually oriented interconnected world. Here's some headshots we did for Azeema just a weekend ago.
Maybe you need an updated headshot, a better headshot, maybe you're about to make a career change or add a side hustle. Professional headshots are important in our visually oriented interconnected world. Here's some headshots we did for Azeema just a weekend ago. Azeema is a passionate & customer focused business leader with over 10 years of experience driving growth and brand equity within global consumer & health care products company. She has a reputation for having a consistent track record for thinking customer, building talent and delivering results across a variety of business sectors and functions.
ERAS Headshots for Electronic Residency Application System
ERAS Headshots for Medical Residency are an important part of the Residency process. I love these short sessions and meeting the doctors of the future.
ERAS Headshots for Medical Residency are an important part of the Residency process. I love these short sessions and meeting the doctors of the future.
Jon Baker Financial Group - Atlanta Business Headshots
The Jon Baker Financial Group is in Dunwoody is a wealth building strategy group who hired me to do a couple of headshots and some outdoor shots of the management.
The Jon Baker Financial Group is a wealth building strategy company in Dunwoody. The group hired me to do a couple of headshots of the newer employees and some group shots of them outdoors. Security is somewhat vigilant so we had to the group shots with no lights. So we found some open shade and the outcome you can see here.
Corporate Headshots - My Process
Corporate headshots are a must have these days. At the end of the day, people to business with people. If someone can put a face to a name and combine that with a positive experience... you're in business!
Time is Of The Essence
When on site my process is the same as my studio. So often I'm shooting in conjuction with some event that brought a large number of people to that companies Atlanta location. So I work as quickly as I can. I've shot as many as 125 heads in a day following this process. So I've learned to work fast yet deliver a great product. Headshot work is all about direction and light placement. It's critical to individualize both of those.
Capture
For every subject I adjust the key light height. There is no set up that would permit a photographer to not make some adjustment for the individual standing in front of their camera. It's a game of inches. Direction in posing adjusts for the individuals anatomy and fine tuning the lighting is critical to success.
I shoot tethered to a laptop into a program called Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. I take test shots of each subject and I adjust the lighting so it best suits them. Once the lighting is set we do a short set of takes. Then we look at the takes on my laptop. This step is so critical in terms of direction. The reasons are:
- It gives the subject confidence because you hardly ever see yourself in professional lighting set just for you. Invariably I get a positive reaction that instills confidence.
- They begin to understand what I call "the game of inches". I can show them what half an inch of chin height and 3 inches of shoulder turn does.
- I've just developed a bond with my subject. We're now a team with a win/win as a mutual goal.
- They go back to their mark more confident and understanding the direction process better
Post Production - Cull
After the shoot I bring the images back to my editing suite and cull them. I then post the images on a proofing gallery on a private url on the internet. For most of my location shoots it would slow the process too much to choose on site. People usually are excusing themselves from meetings to come to me for their headshots on site.
Retouching
After the selection is made I retouch the image using Adobe Photoshop. All the work on my website is retouched by me personally. Retouching is a broad term. In terms of "beauty" retouching (retouching skin) and minor clothing fixes, I am considered by my peers as an expert. I study I stay on top of the most current techniques as Adobe adds algorithms. I'm a perpetual student of retouching. Seeing my subject in person, getting to know them however briefly, usually gives me enough insight into how they want me to handle their retouch. Of course suggestions are often made as they view their takes on the laptop. I see the retouching as part of my job and I think there's great advantage in being a photographer/retoucher.
Delivery
Delivery is made via Dropbox or Thumbdrives. Some networks will not interface with Dropbox due to security concerns. The financial industry is especially this way. In those cases someone often accesses the images off site on a personal computer. Or I can mail a thumbdrive with the images on them.
Cherie - Modeling Headshots
Cherie Veins is an Atlanta based model.
Cherie Veins is an Atlanta based model. Productive session with Cherie.
Social Media Photography Shoot
Photography shoot for social media.
I did this shoot for Rory's social media and branding use.
Key Bank - Make Up Day for Professional Headshots
Key Bank Real Estate needed a make-up day for their professional headshots in their Atlanta office.
Well it's unusual that everyone is in the office on the same day. So what's a marketing department gonna do? Well there's a couple of choices. You can have me back out to you for make-up sessions, OR you can come to me. This was the case for the folks at Key Bank. Here's the results.
Professional Headshots for small offices in Gwinnett County
You have an office and you're looking to create printed materials, websites, social media, and press releases. Maybe you're part of an established company with offices all over the country or region. You may not have the budget to pay a photographer to come in to shoot 3 or 4 employees. Or maybe you don't have the space. Maybe your employees travel or aren't in the office at the same time or perhaps work from home. What do you do? Well if you're within a reasonable drive of me, you send them to me at their convienance. I know how to create consistency over a span of days, months, or years. If you add employees in a month or a year their headshots will look consistent. Hussey, Gay, Bell has offices all over the southeast US. As they build out their Gwinnett County, Duluth Georgia architectural office they were looking for professional headshots for their architects and engineers. Here's how our efforts came out.
Legare, Attwood, and Wolfe were looking to update thier headshots to something more contemporary that wasn't a plain gray background. They are located in the city of Decatur. Easy walking distance to the old Decatur City Courthouse. On set with me that day were make-up and hair artists extraordinaires Faith Brooks and David Hamblen who also did onset grooming. It's always going to be a great day with David and Faith on set!