A recent request for a corporate portrait session (along with detailed and stylised style sheets) had me comparing this request with a brochure shoot in London a few years ago.

The similarity was based on the requirement of dark background being used, contrary to the current and popular style of brighter (cleaner) backgrounds, but the real challenge was to provide images straight out of camera without any of the (obvious) post process work shown on the backgrounds as depicted in the stylised proofs..

Here’s some samples of the original finished brochure images I shot previously which I used as a yardstick to adjust technique from.. these make an interesting backdrop to the creative and informative content of the brochure they were intended for.

Presentation Photography

Films Photography

Multimedia Photography

The requested portrait session was to be in a company boardroom – rather than any studio environment – and as always, time was restricted and the make do studio needed to be set up and taken down in the same boardroom that their Regional meeting was scheduled to happen immediately afterwards – so no stress there then.

Black backgrounds and lighter vignettes are no trouble in a studio where subject lighting and background lighting can be easily separated and isolated from each other, it’s a little more difficult in a boardroom without the level of control a studio provides but the convenience for the client and the subjects being ready assembled outweighs any possible photographic inconvenience.

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Corporate Portrait

Corporate Portrait

Corporate Portrait

Corporate Portrait

Despite the open public studio my subjects were great to work with and the results matched the stylised brief and fulfilled their requirements.

Tags: commercial photography, Company Director, Location Photography, People, Portrait Photography

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