I want to hear your ideas and desires so I can better tailor your session and I can create it through my vision.

Schedule a free session consultation prior to booking the session and answer a short session questionnaire I will send you.

Once I have an idea of what you want to do, I can suggest outfits and locations that would be best to achieve your vision.

Take your time to write your ideas for the photoshoot down. Search the internet for headshots photography or environmental portraits and pin images you like to pinterest.com, or save and email them to me. We will go over them to create the vision for your session.

We will discuss the look and feel that you want to best represent you and we will decide on locations.

Simply start with one piece and build the wardrobe around it and make sure the outfits are comfortable to wear.

For headshot you want to show variety, so bring various collars or necklines.

Headshots are about your face and clothing should enhance it.

Solid colors are preferred
Chose nice textures and quality weaves.
To assure clothing doesn’t take anything away from your portrait:

Clothing shouldn’t be too bright (bright red is a no).
Avoid busy prints or patterns.
Limit jewelry to few pieces.
Use hair accessories sparingly.
Simply start with one piece and build the wardrobe around it and make sure the outfits are comfortable to wear.

However, whatever you bring make sure it is clean and ironed. If your clothes are wrinkled and stained this will show up in the photos. Make sure you remove everything from your pockets during the photoshoot such as phone, keys, wallet, because they will show up on the photos.

I can help with styling:
Contact me if you are not sure what to wear. I will consult with you about the look and feel you want for your shoot.

Every client is different and this is what makes each photo shoot unique.

Styling: Allow enough time to plan the outfits, minimum a week before.

Hydrate: Drink plenty of water prior to the session, to help your skin to glow.

Haircut: If you are considering haircut before the session, do it at least a week before.

Clothing: Choose clothes that fit and compliment you, if you are unsure, consider a stylist.

Makeup: Makeup you wear daily is different than makeup for photography designed to enhance your look in a camera. It’s not a must, but you should consider it.

Sun: It is a headshot, you don’t want to get sunburned a day before the session.
Glasses: Bring multiple pairs to choose the one with least reflections.

Practice: Give it a shot a night before and practice for the image you want in a mirror. Believe me, it does help.

Blemishes: Don’t worry about them, we can retouch them with Photoshop.

Directions: Check the directions to the location prior to the session and make sure you know how to get there.

I understand that time is very valuable so I try to make the headshot session quick and to the point. I will set up before the shoot so I am ready to do the photo shoot in a timely manner.

Length of the headshots session really depends on number of factors:
1. the number of looks / outfit changes you are going to choose
2. number of locations
3. if you choose hair/makeup professional

The headshot photo shoot can be scheduled during business hours.

I am also available on Saturday, Sunday – contact me for availability.

This is a personal decision each client, the goal of the location is to fit the idea or vision you have in mind.

I will come early and do a location scout of the office or areas very close to the office to suggest the most interesting backdrop.

I do have a portable studio with lights and a backdrop that I can set up for photos, but will need about 10 x 20 ft space.

Within a week of the photo session, you will be sent a link for a password protected online gallery, so you can choose the best images, which I will then edit and release to you.

You can download all High Resolution images from the headshot session. In addition you can choose to download Web-Size (1024px) ideal for sharing on social media.

From the online gallery you can share these photos with your friends and family, or buy prints, canvas, mounted prints, metal prints of images, with various sizes.

Images are developed by specialized lab, color corrected for optimal printing to deliver exceptional quality products.

What retouching is included in the Session Package by default?

I retouch images after you have selected the “Final” images from the photoshoot. Retouching is a time consuming process that requires me to inspect and adjust each image.

Included is minor skin smoothing and fixing any minor glitches from the photoshoot.

For example sometimes you may have a perfect image but one piece of hair is covering your forehead – we will remove it. You may have a skin blemish that showed up the morning of the shoot – we will remove it ?

What retouching is outside of the scope of Session Package, not included in the price?

Body reshaping/enhancements, chin fixes, face sculpting, scar removal, eye and teeth whitening are all personalized portrait retouching requests outside of session packages offered. I do offer this level of personalized portrait photo retouching for $35 per image.

Learn More About Personalized Retouching