Blog | Category: HEADSHOT PHOTOGRAPHY

A few weeks ago, we started working for a global insurance company, a brand new Piranha client. Our brief was to take headshots of around 250 of its 1500 employees based at the client’s new UK head office in the heart of the City of London’s insurance district. The client views being under one roof as good for...

Creative photography brings to life working for professional services firms The service economy now accounts for around 85% of all people employed in the UK. These days most of us work while sitting at a desk or serving someone in a shop, rather than bashing out things in factories. While the upside is that working...

Contemporary photographic content is constantly evolving and it’s important for me as a professional photographer to hear the latest views from leading companies, agencies, publishers and editors. Last week, I booked myself on a commercial photography weekend with Magnum Photo, where The FT Weekend Magazine, Diana Markosian (World Press Photo Award Winner), ‘Barbara’ the lifestyle/advertising...

Different Styles of Headshot Photographs Plain background – Environmental portraits – Above are the images taken during a recent photo shoot to take corporate headshot photography for company using different styles. These images are for use on LinkedIn, website and marketing literature. Fun headshots – The pictures below were taken to form a library of...

Team Photographs for Astarte Capital Partners New corporate photography was taken of Astarte Capital Partner‘s London team at their offices in South Kensington. Their fantastic offices afforded an excellent backdrop for the portraits, and provided a choice of images for their website and other materials. New headshot photography Headshot photography was required of the company’s...

Ten minutes in make up is the best preparation for a corporate photoshoot For over 25 years, we’ve been working as professional corporate photographers. Our bread and butter assignment is the corporate portrait, with clients requiring, roughly every couple of years so, a new set of images of their board directors, senior executives and other...

 Video and headshot photography to add personality to your Team pages As part of a recent project for Stanley Capital, we were asked to film short video portraits to complement the employee headshots that we were also capturing on the day. These 2-3 second videos add interactivity to the company’s team page, and some personality...

Professional Photographic Lighting – Light Work can be Heavy Going Lighting for professional London photographer If using natural light was the answer for a professional photographer, you wouldn’t find me lugging around 30 kilogrammes of off camera flash lighting equipment on the London Underground travelling to photo-shoots. As a trick of the trade, the truth...

The humble headshot with a white background Over the years I have lost count of the number of portraits I have taken that comprise of a corporate headshot image with a pure white background. It is easily the most popular format for any company needing a photograph of many employees that can have one room...

  New Website Photography, Banner and Talking Head Video for Private Equity Company This private equity company was launching a new website and required photography and video in their London offices. The range of work included – Video banners for the top of pages The creative brief was for the tops of the website pages...

Do you get nervous having your picture taken? When it’s for a formal occasion, say a publicity shot for a business launch or an important company document, a nervous client, or at least a camera-shy one, is surprisingly common. It’s very common to be camera-shy I’ve lost count of the times I’ve heard clients admitting...

London Studio Photography in 2020 – Headshots & Group Photograph of Communications Team Piranha Photography was commissioned to take a group photograph of the team at Farrer and Kane communications agency’s website.  This was to include all staff members. We arranged a central London studio where the photography could take place, then set up a...