New York
Personal branding session · New York
In short
Personal branding session in New York starts at $650: 2 hr 30 min on location with a photographer who works in New York, and 60 edited photos delivered to a private gallery within 7 business days.
Why choose Personal branding session in New York?
A branding session in New York is bought almost entirely by people whose work is the city: founders raising, consultants selling, creators whose audience expects a specific skyline behind them. That changes what the session has to deliver. It is not enough to photograph you well — the images have to carry deliberate empty space for text, work at a 16:9 website header and a 9:16 story, and survive being cropped by a platform that did not ask. Sixty images in three aspect ratios is the specification, and it is the reason this is two and a half hours rather than one.
Worth knowing about New York
Interior photography is where a New York branding session gets complicated, and it is worth settling before the date. A private office you control is straightforward. A coworking floor usually requires the operator’s permission for a professional shoot, and most Manhattan building lobbies prohibit commercial photography outright regardless of whether your company is a tenant. The location is confirmed in writing beforehand rather than discovered by a security guard mid-session.
What does the session in New York look like?
- A working space — your office, a studio, a coworking floor
- The half of the session that says what you do rather than what you look like. Hands, tools, a desk that is actually yours.
- The Financial District or Midtown streets
- Architecture as a background, and the only part of the set that is unmistakably this city.
- DUMBO or the Brooklyn waterfront
- For anyone whose brand is deliberately not corporate. Brick, water and the skyline at a distance.
What does personal branding session in New York include?
- 60 retouched photographs
- Three wardrobe changes and two or three locations
- A mix of portraits, working shots and detail frames
- Horizontal, vertical and square crops of every key image
- Content calendar suggesting how the set spreads across a year
- Private online gallery within 7 business days
- Commercial licence for your own business use
FAQ — Personal branding session in New York
What should I bring to a personal branding session?
Three outfits across a range of formality, and the objects your work actually involves — a laptop that is yours, a camera you use, samples, a notebook that has been written in. Props brought because they seem professional photograph as props and every viewer can tell. The ones used every day photograph as work.
How is this different from a headshot session in New York?
A headshot answers what you look like and takes an hour. A branding session answers what you do, which needs hands, a workspace and deliberate empty space for text to sit in, and it delivers 60 images in horizontal, vertical and square crops rather than 10 tight portraits. If the only thing you need is a LinkedIn photograph, the headshot session is the honest recommendation and it costs less.