Photography Blog — Tag: headshots

August 30, 2022

This August, I was invited back to Summit Learning Charter to create another round of headshots for their entire staff. They’ve expanded , so this photo shoot was even bigger than the last time. I also had to match the existing…

August 15, 2022

Dave Cesana is a life coach from Portland, OR, and he recently contacted me because he needed both a custom website and personal-branding photography for his business. In the past, I would have been able to just take care of the photography part, but…

October 28, 2019

Here’s the story…of Summit Learning Charter…needing headshots of all their lovely staff. In all seriousness, I recently created headshots of 40 staff members at Summit Learning Charter, which is an online K-12 school within the Estacada, Oregon…

August 15, 2019

Retouching can make or break a professional headshot. It can make you look like your best self after a good night’s sleep. It can also make you look so “perfect” that it looks unnatural and just off. Have you ever seen a headshot of a co-worker that…

September 27, 2018

The clothing you wear for your professional headshots can easily elevate or detract from your portrait. So, what to wear? “Should I wear my zebra-striped blazer, or should I wear my neon golf shirt with a popped collar?” Uh…….so glad you ran that one…

September 18, 2018

Hi all, I want to share my first official senior portraits I did recently with a young man named Noah in S.E. Portland. My last blog post was about a senior portrait test shoot I did with my cousin to get all the details worked out. This time, it was…

June 27, 2018

I put a call out recently so I could test my headshot setup in the studio. I've mostly been doing on-location work outdoors, so this was a nice change of pace. Tony answered the call, and here are the results. After Tony arrived, we chatted a bit and…

June 11, 2018

Last month, I did a bunch of headshot sessions for some folks in Portland. Photographing all these people made me realize I needed a profile pic update for myself as well. At the very least, it would be a good reminder what it's like to be on the…

May 25, 2018

Here's a recent headshot session I did with Preston near Belmont St. in Portland, OR. He told me he wanted some new professional pics for his LinkedIn profile. We got these, and much more! Starting out on a variety of simple backgrounds: Let's…