Business photography in Naperville: your people, your place, in one visit.
The photographs a business runs on. A team photo that is not from four hires ago. Headshots made in your office so they match. Your people doing the work, in the room where they do it, so your website, your LinkedIn, your Chamber profile, and your next hire’s first look at you all show the same company.
More than a headshot. Less than a campaign.
A headshot is one polished photograph of your face, and if that is what you need, the headshot page is the shorter road. A campaign is product, facility, or advertising work shot to a brief, and that lives on the commercial page.
This page is the middle, and for most businesses it is the one that matters: a set of photographs of the people and the place, made in a single visit, that you can use for a year without running out. The About page, the team page, the hiring post, the newsletter, the sponsor deck, the LinkedIn feed, the Google Business Profile. One shoot, one delivery, and the person posting never has to ask “do we have a picture of that.”
What we make in a visit.
The team.
Everybody, together, in your space or in front of it. Block off twenty minutes. Once everyone is in place, the photo itself takes about five. New hires get added later on a matching setup, so the picture doesn’t go stale the week after.
Headshots, on site.
Made in your office on a set I bring, or in the best natural light your building has. Consistent across the whole team, so the website looks like one company. The details are on the headshot page.
People at work.
The part most businesses skip and most customers want. Your people doing the thing you actually do: at the bench, on the floor, with a client, in the kitchen, at the whiteboard. Real, not stock, and not posed to look candid.
The owner.
If you are the face of the business, you need more than one picture. A short set of you in the place, with the work, at the counter, in conversation, so there is a photograph for the interview, the speaking bio, the podcast art, and the announcement.
The space.
The room, the front door, the details a customer notices. The photographs the Google profile, the directory listings, and the “come visit us” post are missing.
Backdrop or on location. Usually both.
- On a backdrop.
- I bring a clean set to your office. Even light, consistent framing, the same look for everyone, made in a hallway or a conference room. This is the team page and the LinkedIn grid.
- On location.
- No backdrop, real light, your actual environment behind you. Looser, warmer, and the one people mean when they say they want photos that look like them. This is the About page, the social feed, and the hiring post.
Most business shoots do both in the same visit: backdrop headshots first, then a walk through the building with the camera while people get back to work.
Businesses I photograph.
Laboratory & Pathology Diagnostics
The pathology group at Edwards has hired me for their headshots and, for the past six years, for a Halloween tradition. The physicians and each of the staff teams pick a theme and show up in costume, I photograph them against the wall of their own hallway, and then I build a world around each group, about six composites a year. The physicians alone have been superheroes in front of a haunted mansion, Vikings with a longship, fruits and vegetables at a farm stand, and Greek gods on Mount Olympus. It’s the most fun I have on a workday, and it’s also a team photo that a whole department shows up for, which is the hard part of team photos.
InterVarsity Press
The publisher was launching a podcast, Hear Women, with three hosts, and needed photographs that could carry the whole launch. One session: clean portraits of the three of them, together and individually, plus each host at the microphone. The portraits became the podcast cover art on Apple and Spotify, the announcement graphics, and the banner on IVP’s site; the microphone photos ran on the social posts, and I shot the b-roll for the trailer the same day. Separately, I shot and edited the teaching videos for Redeemer, one of IVP’s six-week video Bible studies, and have edited several of their other series since. That is the usual pattern with a publisher: once the photographs exist, the video work follows.
How a business shoot works.
- Before.
- Usually an email, or a call if that’s easier. What the photos are for decides what we make, so I ask about the website, the socials, the hiring, and anything coming up. Most clients send me a shot list. If you don’t have one, I’ll help you build it.
- On the day.
- I set up in the corner you can spare and work through headshots on a schedule, so people are away from their desks for minutes, not hours. Then the team photo. Then a walk through the building for the working shots and the space. How long it takes depends on how many people and what’s on the shot list, and you’ll know before the day.
- Retouching.
- Light and natural. Skin looks like skin, and you still look like the person who walks in on Monday. If someone wants more, ask.
- Delivery.
- An online gallery, organized by person and by set, with full-resolution files licensed for the uses we agree on in the quote. New hires are added on a matching setup whenever you need, so the team page stays current.
What it costs.
Business shoots are quoted based on how many people, how much of the building, and what the photos are for. Tell me what you’re trying to fill and the quote comes back in writing.
Questions people ask before they book.
How is this different from headshots?
Headshots are one polished photograph per person. Business photography is the full set: the team, the people at work, the space, and the owner, plus headshots if you need them. If you only need faces for the website, book headshots. If you need photographs for the website, the socials, the hiring, and the Google profile, this is the page.
Can you do the whole team in one visit?
Yes. Headshots run on a schedule, the team photo is planned in advance, and the working shots happen while people get back to what they were doing. How long it takes depends on headcount and the shot list, and you’ll know before the day.
What if someone is out that day?
They get added later on a matching setup. The backdrop, light, and framing are recorded so the new photograph fits the grid.
Do we need a studio?
No. I bring the set to you. A hallway, a conference room, or a corner of the shop is enough for backdrop headshots, and the rest is shot in your actual space.
Can you make a composite team photo, like the Halloween ones?
Yes. I photograph everyone in your space, against whatever plain wall you have, then composite them into a designed background. It works for holiday cards, themed events, and teams that can never be in the same room on the same day.
Do you shoot video too?
Yes, and it is usually a short step once the photographs are planned: a team introduction, a short interview with the owner, a walkthrough of the space. Ask when you request the quote and I will price it together.
Do the photos work for LinkedIn?
That’s most of what they get used for. Headshots are delivered in a square crop and a wide crop.
Tell me what you are trying to fill.
A website that needs a team page, a LinkedIn that needs a year of posts, a hiring push, a new location. Tell me what the photographs are for and I’ll tell you what to make, in one visit.
Just need headshots? Headshot photography
Product, facility, or campaign work? Commercial photography
If what you need is somebody who handles the whole story of your business, not one shoot, that is the other half of what I do. How I work