As you know I specialize in wedding and portrait photography and I’m not quite sure if “corporate stock photography” falls into that category, but I’m always up for a challenge! So when I received a request from CRS, a human resources and Payroll solution Company I decided to take up the challenge! I had a meeting with the board and we discussed the shots they needed. The idea behind the shoot was to try and create “stock-like” images for their new site, but to use the actual people working for the company.

Because this is not something I do regularly I had to do some research and get some sample shots together. A great site to look for ideas on stock photography is istockphoto. I drew up a mood board for my client and the second step was to find a suitable location for the shoot.

I’m a natural light shooter and I’m not very big on the whole studio set up thing, so I needed a location that could give the idea of a modern office, but also had enough natural lighting for the shots. A great company to use for location scouting is Icon Villas. They have the most amazing spaces to use for shoot and for this shoot I decided on the Bridge House.

*The above photos are from the Icon Villa website, I did not photograph these.

The shoot was quite tricky, because of all the glass. I had to check out for reflections and to harsh light. But at the end all these shots were done “hand held”, between 100 and 400 ISO. All done with my 5D with my 50mm 1.4 or 24- 70mm 2.8. No extra lighting, but a bit of reflector.

And these were the results…

Thank you to Sebastine Pepler for the make-up and hair and Daniel J Photography for assisting on the day.