Executive portraits and beautiful light

Natural light and black and white photography, I have always believed, can produce the most natural and flattering of portraits.

Normally, when I am asked to produce a series of executive portraits, I usually use one or two off camera flash units to help portray a person's strengths or character. However, sometimes when you are faced with beautiful wrap around northern light from a bay window, it makes sense to use it and sculpt it to give the best image possible.

That's what happened when I was asked by Siobhan O'Hare from Keynote PCO to produce portraits of herself and her key team members. Using light from a north facing window, a white reflector and a dark wall as background, we ended up with a series of beautiful portraits. It's exactly the same technique I use to shoot lifestyle portraits indoors.

Off camera flash still has its place in my corporate photography, as this photograph of Alasdar Browne, an associate coach with Harmonics career crafting, made earlier this year demonstrates.

You can find out more about my corporate photography here.