As a Professional Photographer, I am always trying to impress on people the value that photography can bring to a business in creating the right first impression of them and the authenticity of their brand. How one well-planned commercial branding photoshoot can create unique bespoke images that not only capture the product or services but […]
Category: Corporate Headshots
Perfectly Polished Dental Photography for the Dental Industry
Today’s dental practices are often more than ‘just’ dental care with many offering additional cosmetic services too. They are multi-faceted businesses, and like all businesses, they have endured a particularly difficult 19 months; Innovating and adjusting to the worldwide pandemic, reassuring patients, and safeguarding them from exposure to the virus, all the while quickly adjusting […]
No job too small.
Whenever I am preparing for a photoshoot with a prospective client, my initial priority is the pre-shoot planning and research. Even before I have packed my bags for the day, I will have gathered as much information as possible about the company, their people and their ethics; creating notes and ideas about the shots that […]
When the photographer became camera shy…..
After I was commissioned to take a series of personal branding headshots for a talented fellow photographer recently, I came away from the shoot with two insights. The first? Corporate headshots are absolutely the most important investment you can make for your personal branding right now. The second? Even after many years as a pro, […]
Picturing the future for a care home client.
Recently, I worked on a big commission that was both emotionally and creatively challenging for a National Care Home. The brief would have been straightforward, had we not been in a pandemic. However, I love a challenging project, the bigger the better! And, with such a human angle this one was very close to my […]
Change your thinking for the perfect headshots
When you think about having your headshot taken do you immediately picture yourself sitting bolt upright, uncomfortably static against a terrible 1980s style backdrop meant to convince everyone that you are in a library? Or maybe you are transported back to your school days – balanced on a stool in the dining hall with everyone […]
The added value of professional images
A photoshoot is so much more than just a few hours blocked out of your working day! It is the start of a simply fabulous investment in your business and – if planned well – the outcome will be images with invaluable repurposing and re-using potential. Make a date! Try to choose a day when […]
Once upon a time…
Once upon a time, professional photography was all about using printed backdrops, with bright tripod lighting which produced static, unflattering, and generic headshots. Thankfully, times have changed and today your commercial images mean so much more, being a virtual greeting to future clients. They are also the initial ‘hello!’ to your website visitors and the […]
Its all about YOU!
What do you think of when you read the slogan ‘Never knowingly undersold’? Or how about ‘Just Do It’? Or ‘probably the best lager in the world…’? I am sure that you can immediately identify the famous brands that these slogans belong to… and along with that recognition comes an immediate sense of what their […]
Its never too early to prepare for Christmas!
With 2020 shaping up to be an unconventional twelve months, it was no surprise that I found myself styling and creating a Christmas photoshoot in the middle of the summer! This was my second shoot for husband and wife team, Paul and Tamar Mayne of their home fragrance business ‘Cosy Aromas’in Suffolk. Much of their […]