Posts Tagged ‘business portraits in london’

I really like it when my subjects know what they want from a photoshoot, and they come prepared.  It makes my job easier, and my subjects get results they generally like even more.

I met up with Suraj again recently during one of my business portrait phothshoot days in Central London.

As well as these photos we shot some more “normal” portraits.  However when Suraj gave me his image choices I noticed the fun ‘super’ shots were absent.  I thought to myself, “I’m not having any of that!”, so I picked my favourite ‘super’ photos and sent them to him anyway.

I like them because they are different, they show the Suraj I know, and they will almost certainly be remembered once seen.

Being a little bit different in business isn’t a bad thing, but always be yourself.  Don’t try and fake it.

On my recent trip up to London I had the pleasure of photographing businessman Sohail Khan.

This is my favourite photo of him.

For more information and to book a session on my next London Business Portrait day please follow this link – http://businessphotos2.eventbrite.com/

The other day while I was in London I asked my Italian friend Francesca if she’d be interested in shooting some “sexy business photos”.  She was.  The following afternoon we found ourselves at a cold Canary Wharf.  It was just a couple of days after the attempted car bomb in New York’s Time Square so they had stepped up security and we had to stop the car twice for them to look in the boot.

Canary Wharf is a perfect place for a modern business shoot – its clean and clinical, and at weekends fairly quiet.  My only concern had been that technically it’s all private property so unlike shooting on a street in the City of London which is public land, I was aware of the fact that we might be asked to stop and move on.

As it happened, asides from a couple of curious Docklands Light Railway staff nobody appeared to give a damn, and we were left alone to do battle with the cold and the wind.

Francescas Italian style was great, and if that’s how the average Italian business woman dresses then I think I want to do business in Italy!

I want to revisit this shoot in the near future and try it again under nicer conditions.  It was just a little too cold, a little too windy, and quite a lot too dark to get really optimal “stock library business images”.

On Friday 28th May 2010 I’m going to be running a business portrait day in central London.  Unless someone has a better idea for a location it’s going to be based at The Four Seasons Hotel in Canary Wharf.

You’ll get a photoshoot from yours truely.   We’ll probably take around 100-150 images, so if you want to have a couple of different looks – maybe a more formal and then changing into a more casual outfit.

From those images you’ll get your choice of 10 photos which you’ll receive as high resolution images.  Those images are yours to do with as you please – use them for profile photos, magazine articles, business cards – there are no restrictions on how you can use them.

All of this for just £99 (plus a small Eventbrite booking fee).  A bargain I hope you’ll agree.

I’m only making 10 places available and I’ll be staggering the bookings throughout the day so everyone has time and nobody feels rushed.

To book please visit my Eventbrite booking page.