Headshot photographer in Downtown LA.

Most of our Downtown work is a firm or a fund whose bio page has stopped matching itself. The partners were photographed properly four years ago, the associates hired since have a cropped phone picture, and two people are still using the photo from the job before this one. A directory page like that reads as a company that doesn't look after its own details — which is a strange impression for a firm that bills for looking after details. One visit fixes it: everyone photographed the same way, same light, same background, in the order your calendar allows.

We need about 10 by 13 feet and an outlet. In a Bunker Hill or Figueroa tower that is usually a small conference room with the table pushed to the wall, or a corner of an unoccupied floor. Each person takes about 20 minutes, picks their favorite on the screen while we are still set up, and is back at their desk. From 25 people it stops being per-person and becomes a flat $3,000 day rate for up to eight hours, however many people you send down. How to run the day so the slots don't collapse by eleven is on the corporate headshots page.

The one thing worth sorting before the day is the building, not the photography. Downtown towers run on freight elevators, dock appointments and visitor badges, and a Tuesday morning setup that should take 45 minutes can take ninety if nobody told security we were coming with four cases. Tell us the building and the floor when you book and we will ask your office manager the three questions that matter: where we load in, whether the freight needs a reservation, and whether parking is validated or we are paying a garage on Hope Street.

Attorneys up for partner, people who have just moved in-house, founders in the Arts District with a deck to finish, anyone whose photo predates the current haircut. A Mini session is 20 minutes and one retouched image, which is enough if you need one good photo and nothing else; most people book the Professional and get two looks out of it, because a directory photo and a conference-program photo are rarely the same picture. We shoot at your office or at home, and all we need is a wall we can work in front of and ten minutes of quiet.

If the photo is going on LinkedIn, read the LinkedIn headshots page first — the crop is tighter than people expect, and a jacket that reads well across a table can go flat against a plain background. For what the Downtown and Westside studios charge by comparison, our guide to the best headshot photographers in Los Angeles lists their prices side by side, and how much headshots cost in Los Angeles explains why the range runs from under a hundred dollars to over a thousand.