Team Headshot Photography in London for LHV Bank

Regular headshot photography for LHV Bank

I regularly travel down to London to photograph headshots for LHV Bank at their office at 1 Angel Court.

Sometimes I’m photographing new starters and sometimes existing team members who happen to be in the office. On this visit I photographed twelve people.

This type of shoot sits at the more premium end of my headshot photography because I can spend up to twenty minutes with each person rather than working through a large team at speed.

That extra time gives me the opportunity to photograph each person in several different ways and, importantly, against different backgrounds.

More than one headshot from the same session

In most cases, a client only actually needs one finished headshot of each person.

That doesn’t mean I necessarily photograph everybody in exactly the same position.

At Angel Court, the meeting room I use gives me around six different background options without having to move very far. That makes it a particularly good location for this sort of session.

I can photograph someone against a clean office background, change the angle completely, use more of the surroundings, or include the view across London.

One of my favourite options has St Paul’s Cathedral sitting in the background.

It gives the photographs a very definite sense of place without making the background more important than the person.

When multi-background team headshots work best

This approach works particularly well when I’m photographing a smaller number of people.

With twelve people, I can spend enough time with each person to vary the photographs without the day becoming rushed.

It wouldn’t be the right approach if I needed to photograph a very large team in a limited amount of time. In that situation, consistency and efficiency become more important and I would normally work from a fixed setup.

For smaller groups, though, I like having the freedom to move things around and find a few different options for each person.

It gives the client more choice and stops the session becoming too repetitive for me as well.

The difficult bit: photographing towards a London skyline

Using a view through a window looks simple until the weather starts changing.

The indoor lighting is completely under my control. The light outside isn’t.

On a windy day in London, the sun can be out one second and disappear behind a cloud the next. The brightness and colour of the background can therefore change very quickly between photographs.

It isn’t a major problem and any small inconsistencies can be corrected afterwards in Photoshop, but I always prefer lighting I can control completely.

That is probably the only tricky part of this particular style of headshot session.

London headshots for smaller teams

I’ve photographed similar headshots for LHV Bank at their Manchester office as well, so the same overall approach can be carried across different locations while still allowing each office to have its own look.

For smaller teams, I think this type of headshot photography works particularly well.

I still get the consistency the client needs across the team, but I also have enough time to work with each person properly, vary the backgrounds and produce photographs that feel a little less formulaic.