Corporate Headshots as a Business Meeting Perk

We’ve pretty much reached the point where, regardless of your job, you need a corporate headshot for work. Whether it’s for Linkedin or your corporate website, your headshot will largely shape how others perceive you in the corporate world. Projecting a vision of confidence and approachability is critical. You might think a simple selfie and some fancy filters will suffice, but I assure you, the results from a professional photographer more than justify the cost. A professional photographer will use his/her skills with lighting, background choice, retouching and most importantly, posing, to create an image of you that will set you apart from the crowd.

Knowing this, forward looking companies are now looking for opportunities to give not only their own employees, but also their industry associates, corporate headshots as a gift. Last week I was photographing a corporate conference at Estancia La Jolla, called Impact AD for the Keck School of Medicine at USC where they brought in researchers from around the country to discuss how to improve the quality of their research projects by diversifying their research subjects. It was actually quite fascinating to watch. The conference organizers hired me to come in and shoot business headshots for any/all attendees who wanted one. By consolidating many headshots into one short session (in this case I shot roughly 40 headshots in less than an hour and a half), they could bring the cost per person WAY down compared to shooting each individually. The attendees LOVED this perk and came away with a corporate headshot that they can use for years to come. Enjoy a few of the images I captured.

Corporate Events and Galas

Over the past few years, as I move away from wedding photography, I have looked to expand my areas of expertise as a photographer to include corporate event and gala photography. Shooting these types of events is a natural extension of having spent twenty years shooting weddings. The skills are the same, but, mercifully, the stress level is about five times lower. All the same, the event planners who put these together do an absolutely spectacular job and show an exquisite level of attention to detail and it’s my job to capture them. The locations of these generally do not suck either. I have recently shot charity galas at The Montage Resort in Laguna Beach, the Park Hyatt Aviara in Carlsbad, the Balboa Bay Resort in Newport Beach, and the Dana Point Waldorf Astoria Beach Resort (although they did manage to lose my keys at the valet for about 45 minutes, which isn’t fun when you’re ready to go home and pour a stiff drink!) and corporate events for clients including ATRI at the Keck School of Medicine at USC, The Burnham-Moores Center at USD, Scripps Encinitas, Whiting Turner construction and Trustmark Insurance. At the corporate events, there’s a trend to offer corporate headshots to all the employees in attendance. SUCH a smart idea, I think. They’re already there, they’re dressed up and it takes just minutes to run them through a quick shoot. Have a look at some of my favorite images from my recent work photographing corporate events and galas!