Photographer Grantly Lynch
This portrait is from a series I took for the London School of Management for the ‘about us’ page on their new website. The subjects needed to be looking to camera, but I wanted to keep the feel fairly informal and relaxed. I have noticed that when you are trying to capture people in this style you only get one chance. They tend to give you one natural smile and then after that they start to feel a little awkward and the smile becomes fixed. You need to be ready.
Corporate portraits for marketing and PR
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Corporate portraits London © Grantly Lynch 07831 366136 or email
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Photographer Grantly Lynch
Recent corporate portrait for City Lifeline Ltd who are a data centre based in the London near The City. This part of their offices is the data storage area and is perfect to illustrate what the company does. The problem with it is that the available lighting is very poor, and due to security restrictions it is difficult to add additional lighting, but after tweaking the image in photoshop, it makes a great press release portrait.
Corporate portraits by Grantly Lynch
Corporate portraits London © Grantly Lynch 07831 366136 or email
Photographer Grantly Lynch
Natural portraits of corporate people in their offices are becoming very contemporary. The benefit for the client is that they do not have to pose. The benefit for the photographer is that people act naturally and focus on their work. This does not make it easy to capture informal portraits of directors. The photographer will have to anticipate possible natural situations and be ready to compose an informal portrait at the precise moment they happen.
Natural corporate portrait of company director
Informal corporate photography of company director.
Informal director photographer © Grantly Lynch 07831 366136 or email
Photographer Grantly Lynch
Business headshots © Grantly Lynch 07831 366136 or email
These are some of my recent corporate portrait photography commissions. Although they are basically single corporate portraits, the photography styles vary depending on the clients requirements. Corporate portrait photography can encompass many different uses from annual reports, online CVs, document pitches, social media portraits, press releases, editorial features and website profiles. The samples below show corporate portrait photography in some of these mediums.
Press release corporate portrait photography
This PR corporate portrait was commissioned by BioMarin Europe Ltd. The standing pose and corporate surroundings suggest a formal and businesslike image.
Annual report corporate portrait photography
This is a very minimalist corporate portrait. It was commissioned for Camco Global’s annual report and needed to be simple in its composition and lighting, but still make the portrait look professional.
Marketing corporate portrait photography
Corporate portrait photography commissioned by Plato GB. This portrait was taken at a networking event and used for social media marketing. This type of photography is more difficult to capture as it is not posed and therefore the photographer has to be alert to any circumstances that offer a good portrait.
Editorial corporate portrait photography
This was commissioned by First Option Ltd. Tim Considine need some editorial portrait photography for a feature in The New Europe magazine. He wanted natural and fairly relaxed corporate portraits, so I decided to shoot these with natural light and used the glass windows in their corridor to bounce lots of light around to even out highlights and shadows.
Informal corporate portrait photography
This was captured at a social media event. This type of animated portrait makes the businessman look professional, involved and passionate about his work.
Document presentation corporate portrait photography
This corporate portrait was commissioned for the client’s online photography profile. It was to be used for his director CV and sent out with any client proposals and presentations. I really like this pose as its is very natural, it does not look posed and he was very comfortable being photographed.
Reportage corporate portrait photography
I captured this portrait at a corporate meeting and like its reportage feel. This type of corporate portrait photography is becoming more popular as potential clients like to see ‘real’ portraits on websites and in marketing literature.
Online profile corporate portrait photography
This way commissioned by an American client who wanted a corporate profile portrait for his virtual business card.
Natural corporate portrait photography
Informal corporate portrait taken at a networking event. These are ideal for capturing a client’s character and make a more personal natural portrait. The other great benefit for the client is that no posing is involved. They can just get on with business and allow the photographer to capture the portraits.
Corporate portrait photography © Grantly Lynch 07831 366136 or email
