Business / Corporate Portrait & Headshots
Business / Corporate Portrait & Headshot Photographer Christchurch, New Zealand.
If you're online promoting yourself in any way, you need a great profile picture!
Whether for your website, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google, articles, PDFs, or even Wikipedia, a great profile picture will make you look far more professional. It creates a relationship and makes you more trustworthy.
I will shoot in my studio or any location you choose. I provide great art direction, work well to briefs, match existing image styles & provide professional, realistic retouching if needed.
If you would like to chat about your image requirements, please feel free to get in touch. I will be delighted to hear from you.
General Price Guide:
For a simple but great headshot, my fee is $345. This includes 1 edited high-resolution image.
For a portrait with more time to capture the image of your dreams, plus outfit changes (if you choose) and different ideas, it's $500.
Most often, one picture is enough and is all you will use, as we take our time to carefully choose it so you can be sure it is the best picture. There is always one that is the best and the one you will probably use. I pride myself on great after-sales service, so if there are a few or all the images you really want, you'll get them too.
For staff headshots with more than one person at a time, there are great discounts. Please enquire.
Extra Info:
What to wear - Wear what you, your family and friends think you look best in. If you're not quite sure, bring 2 or 3 tops, and extra bling. Go with your vibe. Try to have no big creases in the tops. Tough to photoshop out, especially if they are patterned. Best to check beforehand and iron if needed. If a crease does appear, you can easily iron it here.
Hair and Makeup - Totally up to you. How you like. If you are not sure, I can recommend and organise the best makeup artist & hairstylists I know in this town. $150 for makeup or $190 for hair and makeup. You may want to visit your hairdresser/makeup store just before the shoot for a quick style, or feel confident getting a friend, or just doing it all yourself.
The session - Expect the entire session to be around half to an hour, but it's so much fun it seems very quick. We chat for a few minutes, then jump right into it. We can tether to a computer, so after a few shots we look at the screen and work out if what you are wearing is the right thing, or if we change tops, ties or necklaces and see what looks better. We also check your hair, body, posture, face angles, expressions, etc., and aim to improve as needed. It's quite a cool experience. We may be very happy with what we got, or we shoot some more till we get the shot. Then we sit down at a large monitor and pick our favourites.
After the session - I get on to tweaking your pictures. I start with a crop, then colour and exposure balance, clean up dust, hair, and marks on clothing, remove pimples, and lessen wrinkles if you like. Post-production (editing on the computer afterwards) is crucial to get an awesome picture. These days it makes or breaks what a good photographer is. Some photographers go overboard, and you don’t look real but look like you did it on a terrible skin-softening app. Some photographers don’t do anything, and that usually ends up with you having dark pink skin. I make you look like you’re a beautiful, cool, intelligent, approachable, honest, fun person. That kind of stuff.
My goal is to deliver your picture(s) within 72 hours unless the portrait is an emergency.
Here is a helpful wikiHow link. Do take it lightly, as if you do turn up feeling rough, I'll still make you look super smooth - How to prepare for a business portrait
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Reprints & Enlargements - Nearly all business portraits these days are for the internet. But you may want a print, like maybe for a gift. If so, you can order reprints and enlargements easily through me for no fee (only what the lab charges for printing). This is an amazing after-sales service. So roughly a 6x4 inch reprint = $1, 5x7 inch = $3, A4 (8x12 or 8x10 inch) size print = $10.