A consistent set of team headshots for its website and wider communications.

Boal & Co needed a consistent set of team headshots for its website and wider communications, photographed at the company's Douglas office.

Consistency was the deciding factor, so we built a studio at Marquis House and left it untouched for the whole session. The large windows gave us a soft side light that wrapped around each person as they sat, and two LED continuous lights in large parabolic softboxes filled the shadows and put a catch light in the eyes. Every member of staff was photographed at the same distance, on the same backdrop, under the same lighting. On a team page, one portrait lit differently to the rest reads as an afterthought however good it is on its own.

Shooting on site also kept the working day intact. Forty-two people came through in short slots of a few minutes each and were back at their desks straight after, which matters for a business administering pensions across four jurisdictions.

The set was cropped consistently for the website, with retouching kept deliberately light. Professional services photography should look like the people who actually walk into the meeting.

Our role: Creative direction, lighting and on-location portrait photography for a professional services team.