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A great executive portrait can improve the performance of any business. Seriously. Directors, board members and other executives are amongst the most important people in your company and therefore it is important that they are visible and come across as professional, yet accessible. A well executed executive portrait can help achieve this goal. An executive portrait is simply a business headshot of any individual within an business or professional organization. Executive portraits tend to be more formal than some standard portraits. Here are some ways in which an executive portrait can be used to attract business to your company.

Mark Powell Business Portrait photographed in the DC studio...

Press Releases
Magazines, newspapers, news agencies and press release directories receive numerous press releases every day. Make your company’s press releases stand out from the competition by including an executive portrait in it. A photograph of the person the press release is about will give the story a more personal touch and make it seem more real to the reader. Such an image may also pique the reader’s interest in the individual, leading them to visit the company website in order to find out more about the person.
Social Network Avatars
It is becoming increasingly common for companies to set up profiles on social media websites such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and industry blogs. Such profiles are particularly popular when a company director or CEO is personally associated with them and manages them himself. People like to think they are communicating with the boss whenever they interact with an organization or brand online. If you are an executive with a social network profile, make it clear to fellow users that it really is you by setting an executive portrait of yourself as your profile picture.
Annual Reports
Customers and potential customers like to read companies’ annual reports to find out what the business is doing and to check that their policies, procedures and financial accounts are all in order. However, annual reports can be very boring and impersonal. Add a personal touch to your company report by including executive portraits in it. For instance, you should definitely place a photograph of the CEO with her opening message at the start of the report. You could also include a picture of each individual alongside the list of board members and directors.

Virginia Shaffer of Enhesa, Inc. recently had her business portrait updated by our production team...

If you don’t own or a business and are not currently involved in one, executive portraits can still be used to your advantage. If you’re looking for an executive position within a company, consider putting an executive portrait of yourself on your CV or resume. When you send the send CV off to a potential employer organization or executive recruitment agency, this will catch the recruiter’s eye. It will also help persuade the recruiter that you are professional, providing, of course, that you look sufficiently professional in the photograph. At the same time, it will add a personal touch to the resume, helping the recruiter to put a face to your name. By knowing what you look like, the recruiter is more likely to remember you when deciding who to shortlist for the position.
Since your executive portrait can be used in so many different ways, it is well worth investing money and time into having yours done as soon as possible, for the sake of your company and your own career.

If you are in the Philadelphia area, you should do a quick google search for “Philadelphia business Headshots” or “business headshots in philadelphia” and compare the online portfolios of our company versus anyone else you’re considering. It doesn’t make a difference how low the price is when you’re not happy with your image.

At Philadelphia Business Headshots we specialize in providing outstanding corporate and business headshots for small and medium size business in the Philadelphia, Washington DC, and Baltimore metro areas.

We are available for executive headshots, business portraits, executive portraits, and commercial assignments around the globe on a moments notice.

In the business of headshots there is a definite line between professional photographers like Delane Rouse at Philadelphia Business Headshots and and a photographer that creates headshots for models and actors. The end result for models and actors is usually a black and white 8×10 photograph. An 8″x10″ headshot is essentially “a business card for actors” which is presented to casting directors who decide whether a person has the right “look” for a particular part for a role in a movie, tv show, or theatrical part. It is not a “glamour shot”

Corporate/Business Headshots are fundamentally different from a modeling or actors headshot.

A great business BUSINESS HEADSHOT will focus on the subject and only include what is necessary in the photo to show a potential client that you are honest, open and should “invite” the client in and make them want to know more about the subject. Nothing in the photo (jewelry, clothing, hairstyle, background, props, etc) should distract the viewer from the main point of interest. Our headshot will be an accurate and realistic representation of the subject. While it should be retouched, it should still look like you.

A good business headshot will avoid overly dramatic (shadowed) lighting. DC Corporate Headshots does not produce images that are intended to be “fashion shots”. A photo can work perfectly as a fashion shot, but fail miserably as a headshot.
How to choose a good BUSINESS/CORPORATE Headshot photographer:

Find a headshot photographer whose portfolio demonstrates that they can take quality, professional looking headshots done in a style that you really like. It should go without saying that you should like the work of the photographer you choose to work with. You may not feel like a definitive judge of what makes a perfect headshot, but it is important that whichever headshot photographer you choose consistently demonstrates in their portfolio that they can take the types of photos you are looking for.

If you love a photographer’s style and the work they have in their portfolio, the chances are very good that you will love the work they do with you.
Bad, BAD DECISION…

Some photographers work hard at developing a particular “style” of headshots in order to “stand out” or feed their ego. The worst thing a photographer can do is to NOT LISTEN to the clients needs and wants.

However, there is an increasing trend by some headshot photographers to overly crop a photo. This means to cut off or exclude certain features of a subject, such as hair, foreheads, chins, ears, etc. In rare cases, this is perfectly acceptable. But in other cases, extreme cropping is a sure sign that your photo will end up in the trash and you will have wasted that time and money.
“Celebrity” Photographers

Whether it’s a photographer who is a celebrity or it’s a photographer who has worked with celebrities, keep in mind that it really doesn’t matter at all when it comes to your business headshot. A potential or former client just wants to see a friendly face. They don’t have any idea or even care about who the photographer has worked with in the past. So as much as the photographer themselves may impress you, all that really matters is the quality of your headshot. Even though we’ve worked with Fortune 50 CEO’s, Senators, Generals and many more, you should be sure to choose a photographer based on the quality of his/her work and not the CEO’s, Politicians, or other high ranking figures they’ve worked with.