Washington
Professional headshots · Seattle
In short
Professional headshots in Seattle starts at $295: 60 min on location with a photographer who works in Seattle, and 10 edited photos delivered to a private gallery within 48 hours.
Why choose Professional headshots in Seattle?
The practical consequence of Seattle’s weather for a headshot is scheduling freedom rather than picture quality, and that is the part worth booking around. In a sunnier city an outdoor headshot has to happen inside a forty-minute window at one end of the day, which means taking an afternoon off and hoping. Here the usable window is most of the working day for eight months of the year, so the session fits into a lunch hour on a Tuesday. What actually constrains it is the calendar: sunset before half past four in December closes the after-work slot entirely.
Worth knowing about Seattle
The real Seattle constraint for a headshot is daylight rather than rain. In December the sun sets before 4:30pm, which means an outdoor session after work is simply not possible for about a third of the year. Between November and February sessions are booked in the middle of the day or moved indoors, and the overcast that makes the light good is doing nothing about how short it is.
What does the session in Seattle look like?
- Outdoors, Capitol Hill or the waterfront
- Natural light with depth behind the subject. Works all day under overcast, which is most of the year.
- Studio or your office
- For anything that has to match an existing directory, or a December session when the light is gone by half past four.
What does professional headshots in Seattle include?
- 10 retouched photographs
- Two backgrounds and two wardrobe changes
- Selection made together on a monitor before you leave
- Cropped for LinkedIn, for a company directory and for print
- Private online gallery within 48 hours
- Commercial licence for your own professional use
FAQ — Professional headshots in Seattle
Will rain ruin my headshot session?
Rarely, and the overcast it comes with is the best portrait light in the country — even, shadowless and constant all day rather than for an hour at each end. Seattle rain is usually light and intermittent. What genuinely constrains a session here is winter daylight, not precipitation.
Can we photograph outdoors in winter?
Yes, but in the middle of the day. From November to February the sun sets before 4:30pm, so an after-work outdoor session is not possible. A midday slot works well — the overcast means there is no bad hour within the daylight there is — and the studio is the alternative when a schedule cannot accommodate it.