What is a corporate headshot? It is a professional business portrait captured by a portrait photographer using a background & studio lights.
So do not assume you can use a selfie or get a friend or partner to take a photo of you with their phone, even on these iPhones where you can set the camera to portrait mode. This will not give you a corporate headshot. Do not try and save a few quid by cutting corners when it comes to your corporate headshot. Most business headshots are captured for use on company websites. They are usually found on the ‘Meet the Team’ or ‘About Us’ website pages. You will find that clients and suppliers will visit these pages to get an idea of who they will be dealing with. So this will be their first impression, so you want to make it a good one, and as we have said many times before, you don’t get a second chance to make a good first impression.
Technically, corporate means ‘relating to a large company’, and headshot is an American expression for a photograph of an individual’s head and shoulders. The dictionary defines it as a photograph of a person’s head and face. Do not confuse actors headshots with a corporate headshots. An actor’s headshot can show the person in a relaxed mode and appear as they have in outfits and as different characters they have played. A corporate headshot is all about looking professional and business-like. You must appear well-dressed in traditional business attire. Ask the professional portrait photographer to consider all the elements in your business portrait. You want quality studio lighting, a decent portrait lens and a proper background. This can be a colourama roll white is the most common or an office background in a cityscape background.
Corporate headshot with a London cityscape background.
