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 very professional and 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 longer time spent to get the amazing image of your dreams with a couple of different outfit changes if you choose and different ideas = $500.

Most often, one picture is really enough and is all you will use, as we take our time to carefully pick to be reassured that it is the best picture. And there is always one that is the best and the one you will probably only use. I pride myself on giving great after-sales service, so if there are even a few or all of the images that you really want, you get them as well. 

For staff headshots where there is a lot more than just 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 prior and iron if need be. 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 prior to 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 if need be. It's quite a cool experience for you. We may be very happy with what we got, or we shoot some more till we get the shot. We then sit down on 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, take out pimples and lessen wrinkles if you like. The post-production (editing on the computer afterwards) is crucial to have 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 provide you with 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

Click here to view my business & corporate portraits

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.