California
Personal branding session · San Francisco
In short
Personal branding session in San Francisco starts at $650: 2 hr 30 min on location with a photographer who works in San Francisco, and 60 edited photos delivered to a private gallery within 7 business days.
Why choose Personal branding session in San Francisco?
A founder’s branding session in San Francisco has a narrower job than most: the images have to work on a pitch deck, a press page, a conference programme and a podcast thumbnail, and those four have almost nothing in common except that all of them will be cropped by somebody else. Shooting for that means leaving deliberate room around the subject and delivering three aspect ratios of everything, which is a framing decision made during the session rather than a crop applied afterwards.
Worth knowing about San Francisco
Most San Francisco office buildings prohibit commercial photography in lobbies and shared floors regardless of whether your company is a tenant, and several coworking operators require written permission for a professional shoot on their floor. Both are confirmed before the date. It is the one part of a branding session here that is routinely discovered by a security guard halfway through.
What does the session in San Francisco look like?
- Your office or a studio
- The working half — at a desk, a whiteboard, with the product. What a press page actually needs.
- SoMa or the Embarcadero
- Architecture and open sky, for the frames that need room for a headline over them.
- The Presidio
- For a brand that wants none of the above. Cypress and open ground, ten minutes from downtown.
What does personal branding session in San Francisco 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 San Francisco
What should I bring to a branding session?
Three outfits across a range of formality, and the objects your work actually involves — a laptop that is yours, a product sample, a notebook that has been written in. Props brought because they seem professional photograph as props. The ones used every day photograph as work.
How many images do we get, and in what formats?
Sixty retouched images, with every key frame delivered horizontal, vertical and square. A deck needs 16:9, a story needs 9:16 and a profile needs 1:1 — one crop cannot serve all three, and cropping down afterwards usually removes the hands or the head.