We are frequently commissioned to take headshots (portraits I suppose in my world) of people for their own marketing material and websites. I take it as a very real compliment when someone uses an image we’ve created to represent the public face of their business. The personality that someone exudes through the imagery they use, whether it’s a website or a brochure, can make or break an opportunity and so it’s vitally important that we get it right – and I like to think that we do.
James Kessell runs an amazing web and brand design company call Scratch The Sky whose work I really love – particularly the use of photography on the different sites (obviously, anyone who uses photography in their design to such a great extent is always going to popular in my view!) so I was really pleased to be asked to capture some images of him to use.
I suppose, if you post-rationalise a shoot like this, I would say I was trying to capture the personality of the person I’m photographing more than just a simple portrait. At the time, of course, it doesn’t really feel that way. To be honest, it feels much more like we simply chat, drink coffee and capture images. This relaxed approached does have the natural benefit of creating a more ‘conversational’ set of images: not really photojournalism but not really posed portraits either – at least, not all of them – and this is exactly the type of image that I love.
This was one of those sessions, and it was brilliant! James is everything you would expect in someone who you’d trust to look after your brand or web presence and I hope a little of that character – the intelligence and creativity, as well as being a genuinely nice guy – shows through. I hate some people.
Let us know what you think.
Cheers
P.
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