Headshots and Team Photos in Sarasota

Headshots, team photos, and pictures for a website that don't look like stock.

I've spent fourteen years photographing people at weddings, which mostly means making people who dislike being photographed forget they're being photographed. A headshot is the same problem with less time to solve it. If you've had one taken before and hated the result, that's usually the reason. Not the lighting.

Where I shoot

I shoot on location in Sarasota, Bradenton and Lakewood Ranch, at your office or somewhere near it, on weekdays. You don't need a studio and nobody has to take a half day off.

How a session runs

Figure 10 to 15 minutes a person. They come down when they can get away from their desk, we check that buttons are buttoned and lapels are sitting right and the hair is where they want it, then we shoot a few different looks so there's something to choose between. That's about fifteen people in a morning, or around twenty-five across a full day. Twenty or more is a full day, and thirty or more usually runs across two mornings.

Fifteen minutes a person sounds slow next to a studio that runs thirty people through in two hours. That works out to four minutes each, which is enough time to take a picture and not enough to take a good one. Fifteen gets your collar straightened, a few different looks to choose between, and the picture on a screen in front of you so you leave knowing which one is yours.

Everyone gets the same light and the same background, which is the part that matters when the photos go on a team page next to each other. A headshot that looks great alone and wrong beside eight others is a failed headshot.

A professional man in a black suit, white shirt, black tie, and pocket square smiling against a white background.

Professional woman with dark brown hair, wearing a navy blazer, ivory blouse, pearl necklace, gold bracelets, and smiling, with arms crossed against a white background.

Professional man in a blue suit and light blue shirt smiling at the camera.

What you get

You'll pick your own frame before you walk back to your desk. I shoot tethered, so each picture lands on a screen next to us as we go, and you choose the one you want while you're still standing there rather than waiting on a gallery and hoping.

One retouched JPG per person, and the person in the picture picks which frame it is.

Retouching means the things that weren't going to be there tomorrow anyway. A blemish, a stray hair, shine on the forehead, lint on a shoulder. I don't reshape faces or smooth people into plastic, because the point is that your team still looks like your team when a client meets them in person.

One file is all a headshot needs. It has one job, which is being the picture of that person on your website and in their profiles. If you want a few different looks and backgrounds, what you're after is a branding session, and that's further down this page.

Files come back inside 48 hours in a private gallery, sized for web and ready to upload. Whoever is building the team page can take them one at a time or download the whole team at once.

Use them however you like, for as long as you like. Your website, everyone's LinkedIn, email signatures, a press release, a conference program, an ad if you're running one. No credit needed, no expiry.

I keep the full session on file, so if someone gets promoted or you want a different frame two years from now, ask and it's there.

What it costs

$175 for one or two people.

$150 each for three to nine.

$140 each for ten to nineteen.

$135 each for twenty to thirty.

More than thirty, ask and we'll scope it, because at that size it stops being one morning.

I don't quote half days or full days for headshots. What decides how long a session runs is when your people can get away from their desks, not how long I'm willing to stand there. So you're booking the number of people, not the number of hours, and we work around their calendars.

Send me a note with how many people and roughly when, and you'll get a total and a couple of dates that work.

Branding photography

If you're the face of your business, whether that's an agent, a broker, a coach or a consultant, a branding session is a longer version of a headshot session that comes back with more than one picture. Working frames, a few with the room in them, something vertical for a profile and something wide enough for a website header.

Same weekday scheduling, same on-location approach. Tell me where the images are going and we'll work backwards from that.

A business branding portrait of a woman in a black blazer and jeans against a white background.

Corporate events

Conferences, ribbon cuttings, award nights, company addresses, holiday parties. I shoot these the way I shoot a wedding reception, which is mostly staying out of the way and catching the handshake rather than posing it.

Events are quoted rather than listed, and that isn't me being coy. The number moves on things that genuinely change the job: how long it runs, how many people are in the room, whether one photographer can cover it or it needs two, and whether the pictures have to be out that same night for a press release or can come back on the usual turnaround.

If it's a conference and you want a headshot station running alongside it, that's one booking rather than two.

Tell me what the event is and roughly how many people, and I'll put a quote together. It helps to know what the pictures are for. A press release, the website and next year's brochure all change what I go looking for while I'm there.

A speaker in a dark suit holding a microphone at a company anniversary gala.

Round banquet tables set with tall blue and white floral centerpieces at a corporate gala.

A seafood display of crab legs, shrimp and oysters on a table at a corporate event.

Based in Sarasota, working across Sarasota County, Bradenton and Lakewood Ranch.