Corporate headshots in Cape Town, photographed at your office

Corporate headshots in Cape Town for LinkedIn, websites and teams

• Individual professionals: a current LinkedIn photo, a speaker or author profile, a personal-brand image that looks like you on a good day.
• Team pages: the same framing, background and light for every person, so the website reads as one company.
• New starters: matching headshots added later, shot the same way as the original set.
• Company profiles and proposals: people at work in the office, in meetings and at their desks, alongside the formal headshots.

Personal branding photos

Personal branding photos for two people, one brand

When two people front one business, a single shoot can give each of them their own portraits and still produce pictures of them together. Matching outfits and one plain backdrop hold the set together, and a simple prop, here mock newspapers printed with marketing headlines, makes the images ready for launch posts and an About page.

How an on-site headshot day works

1. Book a room. A boardroom, a quiet corner with a window or a plain wall is enough. Outdoor greenery near the office works well.
2. Agree the look. Plain backdrop or office background, colour or black and white, and how the images will be cropped (square for LinkedIn, portrait for a team page).
3. Run a schedule. Studio headshot sessions on published lists take 15 to 20 minutes per person; on site, people can be booked in short slots so nobody leaves their desk for long.
4. Choose and retouch. Each person chooses their favourites from a gallery, and the final images are retouched to match.

Planning a team headshot day: time, space and backdrop

• Time per person. Allow about 15 to 20 minutes for a headshot with a change of top. At that pace four people an hour is realistic, so a team of 20 needs most of a working day. Quick LinkedIn updates take less.
• Space. The person needs to stand a metre or two in front of the wall or backdrop, so it does not catch their shadow, with room for the photographer a few metres back.
• Backdrop. A plain grey or white backdrop gives every person the same look. An office background shows where the team works, but changes if the furniture moves.
• Repeatable set-up. Record the backdrop, distances and crop, so new starters can be photographed later to match.
• Schedule. Send everyone their time slot in advance, and book people with client meetings first, before their day fills up.

Corporate headshot prices in Cape Town

Lee-Ann quotes corporate headshots per booking. For context, on current published lists, corporate headshots in Cape Town cost from about R350 per person for large office teams to R1,590 for one person at a studio. The full table by team size is with the other photoshoot prices in Cape Town.

What to wear for headshots

• Solid, mid-tone colours photograph best; avoid small checks and fine stripes, which shimmer on screen.
• Wear what you wear to an important meeting, and bring a second top or jacket to change the look.
• Fitted collars and jackets look sharper than loose knits.
• Glasses are fine: tilting the frames slightly removes reflections.
• Keep make-up and grooming as you normally wear them, only a little more polished.

Is it worth paying for a professional headshot?

Yes. A headshot is often the first thing a client, recruiter or conference audience sees. A professional one is lit and framed for that job, it matches the rest of your team, and it lasts for years. Phone selfies rarely do any of those. For a team, an on-site day usually costs less per person than sending everyone to a studio separately.

Business photography beyond headshots

On the same visit Lee-Ann can cover your office, your team at work and company events. Conferences, launches and year-end functions are covered on the event photographer Cape Town page. Weddings, family and portrait sessions, head to the photographer in Cape Town overview. Restaurants that want their menu photographed on the same day can book food photography alongside chef portraits.