I was recently given the opportunity to shoot some headshots for Michael to be used for LinkedIn and other social media. Whenever doing headshots I like to make sure there's plenty of conversation both before and during the session to make sure the client is comfortable.
Corporate Headshots with Marloes
I was hired by a company representing the WTC Netherlands Alliance Magazine to photograph Marloes, a Dutch lawyer from Amsterdam, currently living in NYC and working for E&Y. We took a variety of shots starting with these...
As I'm sure you can tell, we spent our time together in Time Square. This felt like the best setting for her since she's showcasing her time in NYC and to non-New Yorker's, what's more characteristic of NYC than Time Square?
I was thrilled to see that a few of these images made it to the WTC Netherlands Magazine. Thanks to Frank van Bergen from ASEGA Media for finding me for this gig and to Marloes for taking some time out of her busy day to capture the snapshot of what her life is like now in NYC.
World Trade Center Netherlands Alliance Magazine #6 - TOC
World Trade Center Netherlands Alliance Magazine #6 - Full Article
Corporate Team-building with Bottle & Bottega
Something I strive for in my business is to please each client so above expectations that they want to hire you over and over again. I work hard to achieve this and have been fortunate enough to be able to do with Bottle & Bottega. They are a wine and art party business, have a local studio and host events like this on-location for organizations that want teambuilding activities.
Two overall goals here: 1) Capture the event, venue, and give a sense of what it was like to be there and 2) Select key images to end up in a slideshow video to showcase the type of work Bottle & Bottega does.
The first set of images here are of the crew responsible for helping each of the tables: the artists.
I captured people at various stages of painting; here are a few...
Some tables as they finished (love the guy with both hands up)
A sense of the overall space, the finished result and people gathering in front of the paintings to admire the work.
An additional component of this shoot was to produce a video slideshow from the images that can be used for Bottle & Bottega marketing efforts for the holidays. Here's a link to that video.
Host: Bottle & Bottega NJ
Venue: Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick
Corporate Headshots for Debbie
I consider Debbie to be a great friend and client as well. Debbie is the CEO of Stride and had an upcoming speaking engagement. She needed updated images for her website and to give to event organizers so we met up in the city to capture these images. Fortunately, we had a nice day in the city to shoot. We walked around for about 30 minutes and stopped at a few locations I scoped out prior to us meeting. Here are a couple favorites of mine.
Corporate Headshots in lower Manhattan
A few weeks ago I was hired to shoot some corporate headshots for a small company called Mastiff LLC located in downtown Manhattan. They are a property development and financial services firm. In my consultation meeting with them, we were discussing what they wanted from the upcoming session and suddenly they stopped to ask, “Would you like some cereal?” I felt like I immediately got their humor and personality.
My contact is Marissa and she told me about the desire for them to have headshots for the three of them and we also discussed some recent blogging that she’s started to do for the company. She wanted to capture some lifestyle images for the blog. The topics focus on the work they do and how they split their time across a few locations where they have property.
Once the formal shots were done we headed outside. Fortunately, we had a beautiful day. Their offices are near the South Street Seaport. I haven’t been down there in a long time and was surprised to know there are still sections of that area that have been closed since Hurricane Sandy.
Such a fun group to work with. We talked about some fun projects to do in the future so I'm looking forward to being a part of that soon.
Real Estate Headshots for Matt
Matt is a friend and a new Real Estate agent. He needed some headshots for his new role. He approached me and said he wasn’t thrilled about the prospect of needing to have his picture taken - a common thing I run into - but I promised to keep it as painless as possible.
Since this was a professional headshot for a realty company, it needed to be formal BUT it didn’t need to be a full-length shot. :-) Here are a couple that we chose from the shoot with Matt. Best of luck selling all kinds of property!
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Corporate Headshots: Vidhi from Stride
Stride has a new VP of Client Services. Her name is Vidhi. I sat down with her recently to capture her likeness to grace the pages of the Stride website. Coincidentally, I almost worked with Vidhi a few years back. I was just leaving a company and she was just coming in. With Debbie as our mutual connection, we meet again.
My default for a shoot like this is to light it up. Not this time. There was some beautiful light coming from a window camera-left so we went with that. She has a great smile and we were able to get some nice images in a very short period of time.
These are a few of my favorites from the session with her. Vidhi, congratulations on the new role. You’ve earned it and I’m sure you’ll enjoy working with the Stride family as much as they’ll enjoy you.
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BTS: Stride Video Shoot
Okay, maybe the behind the scenes (BTS) material should come after the project but I have it now so I'm sharing it.
Aldric (upper left), Darrin, Theresa, Lucille (lower left), Ian, Mike, Lucille (right)
Theresa (left), Darrin/Theresa (middle), Jenna (right)
There were three of us working the shoot this time. Myself, Theresa, and Jenna. While Theresa and I were shooting, Jenna grabbed shots of our talent and the crew working the scene. Great stuff! Soon we'll be shooting the second part of the video which will include some more interviews and a company meeting. Stay tuned for updates on the finished video.
Darrin (upper left with Jenna in the lens reflection), Theresa (lower left), Ian & Mike (right)
I was fortunate enough to have some great help on this shoot:
Theresa Keil: 2nd shooting, video interviews
Jenna Fernandez: BTS shots + assistant
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Stride Corporate Headshots
Something that I think every business strives for is repeat work. It strengthens the relationship and helps to solidify that you’re a good match with that client. With Stride, and more specifically Debbie Madden, I’ve been working with her on creative projects for a few years now. She’s been growing her business and has some new hires that needed headshots so they called me to do the shoot.
Lucille is the Head of Talent at Stride and comes from the General Assembly and Google most recently. Here are some favorites from our session around the streets of NYC.
Lisa is also new to Stride and is the VP of Engineering. She’s worked with Debbie prior to Stride at Cyrus and comes from London where she worked for The Guardian. She told me she had one headshot from that time that worked for all occasions and didn’t fancy being in front of the camera but got comfortable quickly after some initial shots.
I look forward to continued interactions with this great group of people.
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Bottle & Bottega Corporate Event
What’s not to enjoy about events where people are getting together and having fun? I’ve done a few events now for Bottle & Bottega and its always a great time! Its interesting how there’s consistently trepodation as people enter the room (especially for corporate events since they are sometimes not told what their activity is until they arrive) and fears are quickly alleviated as the activity is explained by Rupa and her team.
There’s lots of preparation that goes into planning the event. Here are some shots of the preparation in progress.
The painting instruction begins and everyone seems to be enjoying themselves.
Rupa, the owner of the North Jersey Bottle & Bottega pulls double-duty this time and is teaching in addition to overseeing the event.
There were about 50 people at this event. Here are a few taken while “working” on their art.
Each of the three tables gathered to present their final masterpiece. I’m sure they’ll be hung throughout the offices shortly.
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Special thanks to:
Tanya @ the Basking Ridge Country Club
Rupa and her team
Bottle & Bottega: Team building Event
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I’ve recently teamed up with Bottle & Bottega which is a paint and sip studio where you can bring some wine, food, friends and they have artists on hand to help you create your own masterpiece on canvas.
I tagged along to a team building event with Bottle & Bottega for Bayer at the Skytop Lounge in the Poconos. The plan was for me to shoot video with the goal of capturing the event, featuring the painting and teamwork and ultimately the final mural the group put together. In addition, I planned to interview as many people as I could get to sit down with me to give a sense of what their experience was like. It all went even better than expected.
Upon arrival, I noticed one thing that was missing for me: a space to interview others. I scanned the property and what I ended up with was an outside setup that unless I would have told you it was outside, you wouldn’t have known any different. It happened to be a pretty hot/humid night so that was a little tough but everyone made it through the interview without a hitch.
After a couple of rounds with Bottle & Bottega, I have a finished product that they love and I’m proud to show. I look forward to more events with this group!
Music Licensed through Marmoset: Love and Oceans (Instrumental) by The Dimes
Varley Headshots
Repeat clients are the best! Steve and Christine wanted some updated headshots for their professional profiles. I haven’t seen them much since I shot their wedding back in May. I arrived at their house and turned their living room into a little studio with backdrop, lights, and all the fixin's.
We started with one light for Steve and that seemed to work pretty well. This was the first time I was shooting with this black backdrop and I really like how it keeps the focus on the subject. These are my favorites of Steve.
For Christine, I added a second light, otherwise it was pretty much the same setup. Steve was behind the scenes keeping Christine smiling. These are the ones I liked best for Christine. There’s something about the middle-left image that I really connected with. There’s a real strength that comes through in the expression.
As I was about to leave I asked if they wanted a few together. Nice!
Noise
I've had the recent pleasure to shoot some corporate gigs with my friend Joe. This session was at a company called Noise. Nice group of people. They are an agency that focuses on creating campaigns, products and content for the young adult market. They've recently taken on an engagement with Joe to bring Scrum practices to their organization. Here are a few of the images from the shoot.
I also got some environmental images as well. Since they're called "Noise", they of course, had a turn table in the office. Of course.
MediaMath Corporate Shoot
Ah, the corporate shoot. MediaMath has a pretty large room that we were able to use for this shoot that was scheduled on one particular day. Each person had your standard, classic headshot (as shown below) and then we also did one "with a prop". Those were fun. Some were into it and some weren't. They were funny nonetheless.
Below are a few of the 150+ images I took over multiple days and multiple locations.
This now makes the third shoot done for MediaMath. See more images from a recent event called The Future Series and a few months back the 5th Birthday Party.