Headshot Photography In Charlotte NC
Clean, confident portraits that make your team look like the professionals they are. Studio or on location at your office, shot by a Charlotte NC crew with 20+ years behind the camera.
A Headshot Is A First Impression
Your headshot runs on LinkedIn, your website team page, proposals, conference badges and press releases. It gets seen more often than almost anything else your company produces. A phone snap in a hallway does not carry that weight.
We shoot headshot photography in Charlotte NC for law firms, banks, medical practices, construction companies, agencies and startups. Individuals too. Same lighting discipline either way.
Every session is directed. We do not hand you a stool and hope. We coach posture, jaw line, shoulders and expression until the frame looks like you on your best day. Most people who say they hate photos leave surprised.
Headshots pair naturally with the rest of our photography services and with corporate video production when you need both from 1 visit.
Executive Headshots
Recent Headshot Work
Real clients, real sessions. Shot on location with natural window light and the city skyline behind them. Each person gets a relaxed environmental frame and a tighter classic crop from the same setup, so 1 session covers LinkedIn, the team page and press.
Want this look for your team? Request a quote with your headcount and we will send back custom packages to choose from.
Studio Or On Location
Two ways to shoot. Both give you the same finished quality. The right choice usually comes down to how many people you need photographed and how much time they can give you.
In Our Studio
Full control over light and background. Clean white, soft grey or dramatic black. Best for individuals, executives and anyone who wants the classic polished look with zero distractions.
At Your Office
We bring the studio to you. Portable backdrops, strobes and modifiers set up in a conference room or lobby. Nobody loses half a day to travel and your whole team gets photographed between meetings.
Environmental
Shot in your actual workspace. Plant floor, job site, kitchen, showroom, server room. These say more about what you do than a grey backdrop ever will and they work hard on a website.
We also cover conferences and company functions through our event photography service, so a headshot station at your annual meeting is an easy add.
Team Headshot Days
The most common thing we do. You book a block of time, we set up in your building, and your whole team cycles through on a schedule. 10 people or 200, the process is the same.
Here is why it works. Everyone gets photographed under identical light against an identical background, so your team page finally looks like a team instead of 40 people photographed in 40 different decades. New hires get added later in the same setup, and the look holds.
We run roughly 4 to 6 people per 30 minutes depending on wardrobe changes and how much coaching each person wants. Jane builds the sign up schedule so nobody stands around waiting. Send us a headcount and we will tell you exactly how long the day takes.
On Location Team Day
How Long A Session Takes
Individual Session
Plan on 20 to 30 minutes in the chair. That covers 2 backgrounds, a couple of wardrobe options and enough frames to guarantee you have a keeper.
Executive Session
45 minutes to an hour. More setups, more lighting variation, and usually an environmental frame alongside the clean studio look for use in press and annual reports.
Team Day
Roughly 5 minutes per person once we are rolling, plus about 45 minutes of setup before the first appointment. We publish the schedule in advance so your day is not disrupted.
Review On The Spot
We shoot tethered where possible so you see the frames as they happen. You approve your favorite before you leave the chair. No waiting to find out you blinked.
Everyone lit the same way. Everyone looking like they belong on the same team.
What To Wear
Nobody should stress about this. A few simple rules cover 95% of it.
Solid Colors
Solid, mid tone to dark colors photograph best. Navy, charcoal, deep green, burgundy, white. They hold shape and they keep attention on your face.
Busy Patterns
Tight stripes, small checks and loud prints create moire and pull focus. Big logos date fast. Neon reflects color onto your skin and we have to fix it later.
A Second Option
Bring 2 tops. A jacket and a no jacket version gives you a formal frame and a relaxed frame from the same session. Layers give us range at no extra time cost.
Other practical notes. Press your clothes the night before, because wrinkles are the hardest thing to retouch convincingly. Get a haircut about a week out, not the day before. Bring your glasses if you wear them daily and we will angle the lights to kill the reflection. Anyone wearing makeup should go slightly heavier than a normal workday, because studio light flattens everything.
If your company has a brand standard for headshots, send it over before the shoot. We will match background, crop and tone so new photos drop straight into your existing team page.
Turnaround And Retouching
Every selected image gets professional retouching. That means color correction, exposure balancing, skin smoothing that still looks like skin, stray hair cleanup, blemish removal and teeth and eye brightening kept at a believable level.
What we do not do is reshape faces or make people look like someone else. A headshot has to survive the moment a client meets you in person. Ours do.
You receive high resolution files for print plus web sized versions cropped for LinkedIn, your website team page and email signatures. Square, vertical and horizontal crops come standard so nobody has to guess which file to upload.
Turnaround runs in line with the rest of our work. Rush turnaround is available for an added fee when a bio page or a press release cannot wait. Deliverables are released after full payment.
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Booking a headshot day is also the cheapest time to capture testimonial videos. The lighting is already up and your people are already camera ready.
Headshot Photography FAQs
How long does a headshot session take?
Plan on 20 to 30 minutes for an individual session and 45 minutes to an hour for an executive session. On a team day we move roughly 4 to 6 people through every 30 minutes once the setup is live.
Do you shoot in a studio or at our office?
Both. We work in studio, on location at your office with portable backdrops and strobes, or environmentally in your actual workspace. Team headshot days are usually shot on site.
What should I wear for a corporate headshot?
Solid mid tone to dark colors. Navy, charcoal, deep green, burgundy or white. Skip tight patterns and large logos. Bring 2 tops so you leave with a formal frame and a relaxed frame.
Is retouching included?
Yes. Every selected image gets color correction, exposure balancing, natural skin retouching, stray hair cleanup and blemish removal. We keep it believable so you still look like you in person.
How fast do we get the photos?
You get high resolution files plus web sized crops for LinkedIn, your website and email signatures. Rush turnaround is available for an added fee. Deliverables are released after full payment.
Book Your Headshot Session
Send us a headcount and a date window and we will tell you exactly how long the day takes. Call 704-491-1283 or email info@finalcutmultimedia.com. Photographing students instead? See our high school photography page.