Location Headshot Photography: The Gear

Up until now I have always used this blog as a showcase of recent work and projects, but as there haven’t been any recent jobs because of the whole Covid-19 situation, I thought I should use the blog for some other subjects.

Anyone who has known me well for a long time will tell you that I’ve always been a bit of a gadget freak. It’s for that reason that I’ve always enjoyed the technology side of photography. Buying new photography equipment has always scratched my gadget-needing itch and I love keeping up to date with the latest developments. So I thought I would create a video that shows you the equipment I use to take corporate headshots on location for my clients across London.

I’ve gone through, and no doubt will continue to go through, lots of iterations of this gear. The aim is to end up with a combination of kit which is the perfect mixture of delivering the highest quality results and portability, because I travel to 95% of my jobs on public transport, in a non-Coronavirus world.

Photographers, if you have any questions for me, drop a comment below the video and I’ll be happy to answer anything to the best of my knowledge.

Corporate Headshots For Insurance

Insurance is huge business, and there is inherently a great deal of trust given to businesses as a whole and people at an individual level.

An insurance business wants its clients to trust its people and want to do business with them, so their external facing image is really important. The corporate headshots of their people play a big part in that image. That’s where I come in, taking headshots that help every individual look and feel great in their headshot. It’s not just about the end result, but how you get there; the experience. I give each and every person advice on how to look their absolute best in their photo, and I work with them until we get a photo they are really happy with. It’s this experience which my clients love and I often get feedback from the organising client that everyone felt that their short headshot session was great and I really helped them look their best.

This insurance company in the heart of the City of London invited me along to take headshots of many of their staff across multiple days and they were very individually and collectively delighted with the resulting images.

Here are some of my favourites from that day.

A McDonald's People Conference

McDonald’s obviously employs thousands of people across the UK to run its restaurants, and each of those restaurants is looked after by managers and those managers are looked after by area managers, as you would expect in a business of its size.

I was invited along to photograph a conference for these people in Milton Keynes, where they talked about what was working for the business and what they are planning for the future, as well as doing some fun team-building activities. They even capped it off with a sit-down dinner and party in the evening which featured a great quiz run by a chap in a very colourful suit indeed!

Here are some of my favourite images from the conference.

Elvis, Audrey, Marilyn and Friends

I’m not sure exactly what the theme for this party was, to be completely honest, but I think it was the 1930’s to 1960’s, because there were people dressed up as Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and people from Grease. Whatever the theme was for this party for the staff at EF’s business school at Ashridge, it was another great EF party.

The costumes were great and the atmosphere was lively to say the least. The setting was the beautiful Ashridge House, but as an evening event later in the year, it was all inside after dark. There was a flashmob, a dance from the management team and some excellent shapes thrown on the dance floor after dinner.

The images hopefully do it justice.