Los Angeles Corporate Photographer
About the Corporate Photographer
Ed Carreon is a business and corporate photographer in Los Angeles, creating images for corporate websites, image libraries, marketing collateral, editorial content, and corporate branding projects.
Over 25 years ago, Ed began work as a photojournalist for storied magazines like the New York Times, National Geographic, Life, Forbes, Fortune, Time, Newsweek, US News, and World Report. He traveled the world covering major events from the first Gulf War to the Los Angeles riots and photographed celebrities, artists, everyday folk, and executive portraits from Fortune 500 companies.
This led to doing professional commercial and corporate photography in Los Angeles, collaborating with art directors and marketing and communications professionals from Corporations throughout Los Angeles.
His major influences included Renaissance artists such as Raphael, Caravaggio, and Michelangelo, as well as portrait photographers like Helmut Newton, Eugene Smith, William Penn, Steve Meisel, Yousef Karsh, Annie Leibovitz, and George Hurrell. You can see these influences in his corporate headshots and portraits.
Ed brings his experiences in photojournalism and commercial photography to his corporate photography work through composition and lighting, so his images have a cohesive style.
Corporate Photography Services
Ed specializes in corporate portraiture and business lifestyle photography, where he uses his storytelling abilities and technical skills to create cohesive content projects for companies.
Corporate portraits, where we create stylized images of the company leadership through environmental portraiture or on-location studio portraiture anywhere in Los Angeles.
As a professional corporate portrait photographer, Ed draws from various techniques to distinguish corporate leadership and works with his subjects to find a range of expressions and body language, so the corporate portraits have a range of facial expressions.
Professional Corporate headshots are clean, well-lit business headshots of faculty and staff typically shot on seamless backgrounds, allowing for the efficient creation of portraits for many people. Corporate headshots are an efficient way of photographing a large group of people.
Within this category, we can also create composite group portraits where we photograph individuals on a seamless background that we use to create a group corporate portrait.
These are useful for companies when they want to replace one person with another without re-shooting the whole group again.
Corporate lifestyle photography of business life in a company’s offices. It is the art of the found image, a meaningful composition of day-to-day scenes through office environment photos. Ed is a master at finding and creating scenes or moments. When you want authentic moments that reflect your corporate culture with a storytelling purpose, then a photographer with a photojournalist’s eye and a commercial photography background is what you are looking for.
Corporate Event Photography for business events is where his photojournalism background comes into play. He is adept at creating stories while finding moments that characterize the spirit of the event.
Budget: We are competitive with headshot and corporate photographers of equal
Experience: Over 25 years working for major magazines and Fortune 500 corporations
Style: Organic, natural, and studio light aesthetic with authentic expressions for portraits and headshots.
Location: Los Angeles and surrounding areas, including San Diego, Santa Barbara and the Inland Empire.
Corporate photography process
We begin by actively listening to the client's needs and asking about options, logistics, expectations, and budget. This collaborative approach allows us to propose creative solutions tailored to their corporate photography aspirations. We can choose from a variety of image styles for executive portraits.
This can be followed by a location scout, depending on the project requirements. We don't need to scout locations for corporate headshots.
We create clean, well-lit studio and environmental business portraits on location, indoors, or outdoors for corporate portraits. We also provide light makeup for most subjects and can arrange for a professional makeup artist for our corporate photography projects.
His exceptional social skills put executives at ease in front of the camera, and his superb production skills come together to deliver finished portraits on a deadline, whether for large production shoots or simple available light executive portraits.
Ed typically works alongside an assistant, capturing images directly to a laptop or iPad, allowing clients to see what they are getting in real-time.
He produces all his corporate photography assignments, handles post-production, and hires the right crew. Images are posted on an Adobe photo gallery for review after color grading and toning. The final images are retouched and or assembled for final delivery via Dropbox.
He usually includes retouching on one final headshot or portrait image per person, and the outtakes are available upon request. Ed can also shoot portrait and business lifestyle previews to a Dropbox for real-time review of images for remote teams to review.
Corporate Rates
Our corporate photography rates are project-by-project, and we are competitive with other corporate photographers of equal merit in the Los Angeles area. If you’d like to see more examples of corporate lifestyle or corporate photography, we can create a web gallery with more images for consideration.
FAQ
Preparing for business headshots. Clients should make sure that men are shaved, and if they have beards, they should be trimmed. Avoid wearing clothing with tight patterns like herringbone and tight pinstripes because they can create an optical illusion called a moiré pattern. Additionally, wrinkled shirts and ill-fitting coats don’t look great.
What to expect on the day of the shoot. The photographer and assistant usually arrive about 90 minutes ahead of time to set up and deal with any technical glitches. We like to give each person 20 minutes in front of the camera, including light makeup, but that is not always possible. We can work with 10 minutes per portrait. All portraits appear on an iPad or Laptop as we shoot, so there are no surprises, and we have our subjects review the corporate portraits or headshots to get their feedback.
Does the photographer retouch portraits? Yes, Ed does light global retouching on all images he delivers and does detailed retouching on smaller headshot groups and all his corporate portraits.
Does the photographer carry liability insurance? Ed carries $4,000,000 liability business insurance.
There should be adequate space for the lighting setup and background. Ideally, a space that is no smaller than 12ft wide and 15ft long is required for the set.
Is Ed the primary corporate photographer? Always, though sometimes we will work with other corporate photographers when we have a considerable amount of corporate headshots to do, or in the unlikely case of injury, we will ask another professional corporate photographer to fill in.
Does the corporate photographer have a portfolio exhibiting a range of expressions, backgrounds, and lighting with a consistent style, or is it just tight corporate headshots? Besides business portraits, his portfolio shows a great range of subject expression, lighting, demographics, and backgrounds. His work includes a range of commercial photography genres, not just corporate headshots
Can the professional photographer actively listen to your needs and respond with helpful questions about your corporate photography project? Ed seeks to understand before being understood, listens, asks questions, and proposes ideas.
Can the photographer make recommendations to other photographers in other cities if you have a corporate photography project across multiple cities? Ed has relationships with industrial and corporate photographers across the country.
Can the photographer bring in additional corporate photographers if you have hundreds of people who need business headshots? Ed can bring in additional photographers to photograph large numbers of business portraits.
How long does the entire process take? It depends on the scope of the job. Corporate portraiture usually takes about 20 minutes per person, but each corporate portrait can take as little as five minutes for large groups. Business lifestyle photography depends on how many images the client needs and the environmental conditions.
Where are your offices located? We are located just outside of Downtown Los Angeles, and we travel to Orange County, Ventura County, and San Diego County. Travel fees apply sometimes to areas outside of Los Angeles and Orange Counties.
Deliverables
Full Retouching on business portraits.
Light Retouching on corporate headshots.
Seven-Day Turnaround or sooner
Corporate Photographer (Ed)
One or more photo assistants
$4,000,000 liability insurance
One Adobe Image Gallery
Shoot to a laptop or iPad.
High-res Jpeg finals
Delivery via Dropbox
Lighting equipment
Light makeup
Clients
Gilead Sciences, Acura, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Forbes, New York Times, National Geographic, USC, Cedars Sinai Hospital, Amgen, Corient, Pratt and Whitney, Owens Corning, PIMCO, Chivas Regal, CVS Pharmacy, Chase Bank, Herbal Life, Life Magazine, Red Cross, Target Corp., Valspar, Relativity Space, Vergin Galactic, Wells Fargo, ASP, Johnson & Johnson, Ace Insurance and Transdev.