Personal Branding Portrait Sessions
For founders, executives, speakers, and consultants who need more than a headshot.
A headshot covers your profile picture. Everything else needs a wider, coordinated set instead of one photo trying to cover every job.
One session produces the whole set, headshot, portraits, and environmental images, directed throughout and edited to the same standard
What does a Personal Branding Portrait session include?
It starts with the headshot. Chest-up, tight on the face, the image built for your profile and your bio line, the one every platform still crops down to a small square.
Then the frame opens up into portraits. Posture, presence, the room around you. This is the image a website hero or a feature story actually calls for, and it’s a different job than a headshot, not a looser version of one.
Many sessions add a third layer, environmental images made wherever the work actually happens. Your studio, your kitchen, your office, on location instead of in front of a backdrop.
Wardrobe changes, the setup changes, and the framing runs from tight on the face out to full length. One sitting, directed the whole way through, and you leave with a set built to work together instead of a pile of photos that happen to share a date.
Who is a personal Branding Portrait session for?
Founders & Entrepreneurs
People invest in you before they invest in the company. Experience gets you into the conversation, but personality is what gets you chosen, and your images are where most people meet it first. The set has to work everywhere your name does, the pitch deck, the press feature, the about page, and read as the same confident, approachable person in every one of them.
Speakers & Authors
Every talk and every book starts with the same email asking for your photo. It runs on the conference program, the book jacket, the podcast tile, published months before you show up. Most people send whatever they have and hope it holds up. This session exists so the photo that introduces you was built for the job.
Influencers & Creators
Your feed is your portfolio, and it never stops asking for more. One session builds a deep bench of images, different looks, different settings, all unmistakably the same person, so you can keep showing up every day without recycling the same three photos.
Consultants & Coaches
What you sell can’t be photographed. No product shots, no storefront, no portfolio, just you, and a client deciding whether to trust you with a problem they couldn’t solve themselves. Your images have to do the convincing that a product would do for anyone else.
Executives & CEOs
A leadership page headshot does one job well. The annual report, the board deck, the press piece about your company, they all ask for something a profile crop cannot give them, and they tend to run whatever was already on file. This session produces the range deliberately, standard headshot included.
What To expect in your personal Branding Portrait session
i direct you in front of the camera
We’ll guide you through the shoot, and pull authentic expressions out of you. You’re not expected to know how to do any of this walking in.
We review the images together
Images appear on screen as we shoot, so we can address issues as they arise and see what’s working while there’s still time to get more of it.
You choose the photos you want to keep
You only pay for the images you want to keep. If you can’t decide on the spot, an online gallery can be provided at an additional fee.
Personal Branding Portrait session Questions
What is the difference between a headshot and a personal branding session?
A headshot is one image doing one job, chest-up and tight on the face, built for your profile picture. A personal branding session produces a set. It starts with that headshot, opens up into portraits that bring in posture and presence, and often adds environmental images made where you actually work. You leave with images that cover your site, your press and your feed, instead of one photo trying to do all of it.
How much does a personal branding session cost?
Personal branding sessions are booked as a portrait session. The session fee is $3,000 and finished images are $300 each, which includes retouching. You choose your images at the end and pay only for the ones you keep. – View Rates
How many images do I get?
As many as you want. There is no set package. We shoot the range the set needs, review together on screen as we go, and you choose from what is there. The session fee covers the shoot, and each image you keep is purchased separately, so you are not paying for files you will never use.
Do I need a branding session if I already have a good headshot?
If your headshot is current and your profile is the only place you need a photo, no. This session exists for people whose work asks for more than that, a website hero, a press feature, a speaking bio, a media kit. Those want wider images a profile crop cannot give them, and shooting them together is what makes them read as one set instead of a pile of photos from different years.
Where do personal branding sessions take place?
At our New York studio at 134 W 26th Street in Chelsea, or on location. The environmental images are the part that usually moves, since the point is to shoot where the work actually happens, your office, your studio, your workspace. We travel on request.
What should I bring to a personal branding session?
Bring more than you think you need, weighted toward tops. A range of cuts, colors and necklines does more for the variety of your final set than almost anything else you control. Because the framing runs from tight on the face out to full length, bring complete outfits rather than just shirts, and include shoes. We have a steamer in the studio. Our guide to what to wear for headshots covers colors, patterns and what usually gets cut.
Do you provide hair and makeup?
Hair and makeup are not included in the session fee but are available at the studio as an add-on. For portrait sessions it is $600. Strongly recommended for women, and light grooming for men is available on request. – View Rates
How long until I get my images?
One week after you choose your images. Most people choose at the shoot, on screen, so that is usually one week from the shoot date. If you take an online gallery and select afterward, the week starts when you choose.
Take control of your personal brand image
Book online today, or contact the studio to discuss our services.