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santa cruz headshot photographers
It’s pretty rare I can’t find a spot inside or outside a client’s home to take headshots. Not only is it convenient for my clients that I come to them, but they can easily change into different shirts/jackets all in the comfort of their own space. We took these photos in the living room of his home in Santa Cruz. Portable lighting equipment FTW!
This client appreciate the convenience of me coming directly to his home to set up a studio and get some new headshots for LinkedIn. We set up in his kitchen area where the ceilings were highest, and used one of the white walls for our background. He picked his favorite single photo from the session, and I included a black and white version, because options are good, right?
Something medium to large corporate organizations struggle with in regards to executive portraits is inconsistency. If you try to exactly match certain background with different photographers in different locations over different time periods, even if the photographers do a good job there’s going to be variation in that media collection that will be obvious to everyone. One of the things I like to do is give each person a variety of settings to shoot in so that we’re baking variety into the photographic cake, and those subtle variations in lighting, etc will be much less of a factor. This shoot had 5 or 6 spots I’d picked out for each person with wildly different lighting requirements – ranging from 1/125 to 1/2000 shutter speed to keep a consistent 1.8 to 2.2 aperture setting for a shallow depth-of-field look for all the waist-up shots. All these were shot on a Nikon Z7 with the native 85mm 1.8 S lens with one Profoto B1 flash off-camera shooting through a 30” Profoto Octa. I love keeping my lighting setup simple and mobile, which cuts down on how much time I need with each executive while also delivering a diverse library of images for each person to choose from.
Look, I know headshots are not everyone’s favorite – it’s often thought of as a “necessary evil” – kinda like going to the dentist. Except I can promise you one thing, it won’t be painful, and instead of coming back to me every 6 months, what I do for business professionals will serve them for a decade. And the best thing? Every year you have this new headshot, you’ll like it more. Heck, by the time that decade comes around, you’ll be so fond of that photo you’ll seriously consider never replacing it. But you will. And you will call me.
Enjoy my favorite business headshots from this amazing Santa Cruz real estate team, including their mascot. Go Team!
