Posts tagged Seattle Business Portraits
Behind the Lens: Engineering an IT Professional’s Portrait

I recently had the pleasure of photographing John, an IT professional, for a magazine feature. While the final image needs to stand on its own, I find that explaining the "how" can be just as interesting as the "what." This session was a great opportunity to lean into some core lighting principles I’ve used throughout my career in Seattle.

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The Visual Edge: Why Commercial Photography is a Business Essential

In a world of limited time and shrinking attention spans, your business, brand, and products are in a relentless competition to be noticed. While long-form articles and detailed descriptions are essential once a customer is interested, you first have to convince them to look.

That is where professional photography comes in. Brands that are instantly compelling and communicate their story with a single glance are the ones that get the opportunity to tell their full story.

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20 Stories in 12 Hours: The Art of the Trade Show Headshot Marathon

Trade shows are a whirlwind of networking, tight schedules, and high-stakes meetings. For a company bringing its global team together in one place, it is often the only window of opportunity to update their visual branding. A few years ago, I was given a unique challenge: provide 20 distinct, individualized professional portraits over the course of a single 12-hour day during at event at the Seattle Convention Center. Luckily, their office was within walking distance.

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Lawyer Portraits in Seattle

I was at a law firm photographing a couple of newly hired lawyers. I did some of my cinematic portraits and some work culture images for them. Then, I took them down to the basement of their building to play at creating some fun images with the vault.

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Seattle Business Headshots and Portraits

Business portraits and headshots make up a huge part of my business. A lot of times places will want this more casual, modern style of business portrait, but will be asking for headshots because that is the term they know. In photographer’s circles this isn’t really considered a headshot because there is much more to it than just the head and shoulders, but how would a client know to call it something different? I have heard these call cinematic style or bokeh style, but whatever it is, I have been doing it for my clients for years. I will go to a business office and create really nice portraits of a bunch of people all in one day. Here is a set I did for a biotech firm in Seattle. All of these images were either taken in the lobby of their building or within a few blocks of walking. For this shoot, I created portraits of around 35 of their employees in one day.

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Executive Portraits | Troy

I went down to the headquarters of Abbott Construction in Seattle to create new executive portraits of their CEO, Troy. They have a great office to work with. Over the course of the hour I was with Troy, we did several different settings including some studio headshots to give him a variety of images to work with. We varied from fully buttoned up to business casual so that he would be able to use the images for different purposes. I was quite please with this set of images.

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Seattle Small Business Photography | Dr. Eagan

Dr. Eagan started her own private practice, Summit Psychology, a couple of years ago. Being a smart business person as well as psychologist, she realized that small businesses need good photography to be able to have a professional looking web and social media presence. I was luck enough to get the job to take her portraits and some photographs of her office. Another smart thing she did was to choose a beautiful office space that will be a pleasure for her and her clients to spend time in.

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