A video guide to corporate headshot photography: Speed and consistency is key

posted Friday, June 1, 2018 at 6:59 AM EDT

If you're a professional portrait photographer, you'll likely end up doing corporate headshots at one point or another, perhaps it'll even become your specialty. Corporate headshots come with their own distinct challenges. Your subjects are not always people who enjoy or even want their photos taken, for example, and further, you often have only a few minutes with each person.

You need to have an efficient workflow and have your camera and lighting gear set up in such a way that you can quickly get a good shot. Speed is important and perhaps just as important is consistency. Photographer Sean Tucker is very versatile and one of his jobs is taking corporate headshots. In the video below, he offers tips and tricks as well as giving a comprehensive overview of his own system and setup.