Trust The Process

When I arrived at Sarah’s beautiful home, she probably thought I’d lost it when I suggested shooting her new LinkedIn headshot in her shed.

Article by Headshot Company founder & Photographer James Kenny

The Result

As a headshot photographer that works largely on location, I’m often on the road travelling to business people and entrepreneurs who need a new headshot for their LinkedIn profile. Of course, no two locations are ever the same and an important part of what I do is being able to quickly scout the best place at someone’s home or office for us to shoot in.

Prior to the shoot, Sarah had sent me some sample images that she liked the look of, and if I was going to get close to that, we needed a very specific lighting set up. Nowhere in the house was going to work for this look. So I suggested the shed.

It was threatening to rain, the shed has spiders in it and it all round just sounded like a terrible idea. But I knew it would work and Sarah was happy to roll with it.

What I needed was a mix of strobe lighting and daylight as a fill, but all coming from behind the camera. Placing Sarah just inside the slightly closed barn doors with a softbox overhead gave me exactly that.

We’d decided to use one of our hand painted canvas backdrops, and while I was getting set up I noticed an old chair in the corner of the garage that looked like it was made for the background we were shooting against, so we pulled that over.

Everything came together, the sun came out and I was very happy with the results but, most importantly, so was Sarah.

It just goes to show- if you trust the professional, even when what they’re saying seems pretty weird, and let them work their magic, the results will be worth it!

If you need a professional headshot for your LinkedIn profile, website or anything else- we’d love to hear from you. James has been shooting corporate portraits since 2001 and set up Headshot Company in 2016. Our clients include Amazon, Rockstar Games, Chelsea FC and Forbes to name a few.