Why On-Location Headshots Make Business Sense
As experienced producers, we understand that corporate photography is about balancing exceptional visual quality with minimal operational disruption. Executing headshots at your location achieves both.
1. Eliminating Billable Downtime
When employees travel to a studio, a 15-minute photo session easily turns into a two-hour loss of productivity per person. By setting up a mobile studio in your conference room, lobby, or empty office, your team members simply step away from their desks for a few minutes, review their images on the spot, and return straight to work.
2. Uncompromising “Studio-Grade” Quality
Shooting on location does not mean compromising on production value. We deploy the exact same high-end lighting modifiers, professional backdrops, and camera systems used in a commercial studio space.
- Precision Lighting: We control the environment completely, utilizing multi-point strobe setups to ensure flattering, dimensional lighting that matches your exact brand guidelines.
- Tethered Capture: We tether our cameras directly to a viewing monitor. This allows art directors, marketing managers, and the subjects themselves to review the high-resolution images in real-time, ensuring everyone is thrilled with the result before they leave the set.
- Environmental or Seamless Backgrounds: Depending on your brand kit, we can utilize your office architecture as a blurred, modern background (environmental portraiture) or set up classic seamless paper for a clean, uniform look.
3. Absolute Brand Consistency
When your workforce grows, your visual branding must scale seamlessly. By establishing a replicable on-location lighting and background setup, we create a precise blueprint for your company. Whether we photograph 50 executives today or return in six months to photograph five new hires, the lighting, color grading, and framing will be completely identical.
About St. Louis Business Portraits
Since 1982, St. Louis Business Portraits has worked with many businesses, marketing firms, and creative agencies in the St. Louis area for their marketing photography and video. We are a full-service professional commercial photography and video production company, equipped with the right gear and the creative crew service experience necessary for successful image acquisition.
We offer comprehensive full-service studio and location video and photography, as well as editing, post-production, and highly specialized licensed drone services. Our aerial capabilities range from flying specialized FPV drones indoors to advanced drone operations including infrared thermal, orthomosaics, and LiDAR.
How We Support Your Production Needs:
- Custom Media Solutions: We customize your productions for diverse types of media requirements. Repurposing your photography and video branding to gain more traction across multiple platforms is one of our specialties.
- Advanced Technology: We are well-versed in all file types, styles of media, and accompanying software, utilizing the latest in Artificial Intelligence for all our media services to deliver cutting-edge results.
- Comprehensive Studio Space: Our private studio lighting and visual setup is perfect for small productions and interview scenes, and the space is large enough to incorporate custom props to round out your set.
- End-to-End Production: We support every aspect of your production—from setting up a private, custom interview studio to supplying professional sound and camera operators, as well as providing the right equipment—ensuring your next video production is seamless and successful.
- Specialized Expertise: Need more than headshots? Our crew includes dedicated location scouting and b-roll specialists ready to capture the full scope of your organization.
Whether we are transforming your boardroom into a portrait studio or producing a full-scale commercial campaign, St. Louis Business Portraits ensures your visual media works as hard for your business as you do.
314-913-5626
stlouisphotos@gmail.com
Mike Haller
Studio by appointment – 4501 Mattis Road St Louis, MO 63128
St Louis Business Portraits 