Professional headshots in Suffolk

A good headshot does a straightforward job. It tells people who you are before you have said a word.

I am a professional headshot photographer based near Woodbridge in Suffolk. I work from the studio and on location across the county.

Whether it ends up on LinkedIn, a company website, a press release or a casting profile, it needs to look like you at your best. Not a passport photo. Not something grabbed on a phone in a car park. Not so heavily retouched that you no longer recognise yourself.

I photograph headshots from my studio at Bentwaters, near Woodbridge in Suffolk, and on location across Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex. I have been photographing professionally since 2013 and have run the studio since 2019.

Who I photograph

Business owners, directors, employees, consultants, actors, performers, and anyone who needs a professional portrait for work.

There is no particular type of person this is for. If you need a decent headshot, that is enough.

Some people arrive having had one taken before and knowing exactly what they want. Most do not. Most people tell me within about thirty seconds that they hate having their photograph taken. That is normal, and it is my job to work with it rather than pretend it is not happening.

If you are an actor and need images for agents and casting briefs, the actor headshots page covers those sessions in more detail.

What happens in a session

The session runs from my studio at Rendlesham, about fifteen miles from Ipswich and ten minutes from Woodbridge. There is a four-hour limit on a studio booking, but most headshot sessions take one to two hours.

You are not expected to know how to pose. I give direction throughout, and I show you the images on screen as we work, so we can adjust the expression, the posture, the lighting and the background together rather than you finding out afterwards what you got.

You can change clothes as many times as you like. There is a changing room, there is free parking, and the studio is easy to find.

I use professional lighting and a choice of backgrounds. What I light and how I light it depends on you, what the images are for, and where they will end up. A headshot destined for a law firm’s website and one destined for a musician’s press kit are not the same photograph, and they should not be lit the same way.

What you get

After the session, your images go into a private online gallery. It is password protected and stays open for eight weeks. You choose which images you want edited.

Each chosen image is then individually edited. Colour, tone, contrast, and the overall finish of the photograph. This is not a filter applied in bulk. It takes time, and it is a real part of the work, which is why the pricing is built around the number of edited images rather than the length of the session. Edited files are usually delivered within five working days of your selection.

You receive a high-resolution JPEG of each edited image, plus a low-resolution version sized for social media and website profiles. You get a licence for personal printing and for use online. You should be able to print and share your own photographs without asking me first.

Booking, preparation and delivery

I do not treat a shoot as a one-off appointment. Most of what makes a session work happens before you arrive and after you leave.

Booking is done online. You get a contract, a short questionnaire so I understand what the images are actually for, reminders as the date approaches, and a preparation guide covering what to wear and what to bring. After the shoot there is the gallery, the image selection, the editing and the delivery. If you come back in two years for an update, I still have your session on file, and the tiered image pricing picks up where it left off.

None of that is the interesting part of photography. It is the part that means you are not chasing me for an email, and you are not turning up on the day wondering what you were supposed to bring.

Photographs that have a job to do

I worked in digital marketing and SEO before photography became the job, and it changed how I photograph.

An image that looks good and an image that works are not always the same thing. A headshot has to crop to a circle on LinkedIn without losing half your face. It has to sit alongside eleven colleagues on a team page and not look like it was taken in a different decade. It needs to hold up at thumbnail size and at full width, on a phone and on a printed page.

So I ask where a photograph is going to end up before I take it, rather than afterwards. That applies whether it is a headshot, a product shot, personal branding or a creative portrait. The photograph has a job. It should be built to do it.

What it costs

The session fee is £80. It is non-refundable and it comes off the total, so it is a deposit rather than an extra.

Three packages cover most people:

Package	Price	Includes
Essential Headshot Session	£110	Studio session, online gallery, 1 fully edited image
Pro Profile Package	£170	Studio session, online gallery, 3 fully edited images
Portfolio Builder	£280	Studio session, online gallery, 7 fully edited images

Every package includes the session fee. If you want one strong profile image, take the Essential. If you need images for LinkedIn, a CV, a website and a bio, three is usually the right number. The Portfolio Builder makes sense when you want variety across several looks.

Additional edited images are priced in tiers, and the rate drops as you order more:

Number of edited images	Price per image
1 to 5	£30
6 to 10	£25
11 to 15	£20
16 to 20	£15
21 or more	£10

The tiers work in stages. If you order seven images, the first five are £30 each and the next two are £25 each. Ordering seven does not reduce the first five to £25.

Full pricing, including a calculator, is on the headshot pricing page.

Corporate, executive and team headshots

Most of my corporate headshot work is for businesses that need staff photos to match: the team page on the website, email signatures, proposals and press releases. If you have a team who all need headshots, I can photograph everyone in a single session.

Senior and executive headshots are part of this too. An executive headshot for a company profile, an annual report or a conference bio needs to look current and considered, and it should sit naturally alongside the rest of the leadership team.

One session fee covers the whole group. It costs the same whether you bring one person or ten. Each person then chooses the images they want, and because the image pricing is tiered, a larger team order lands in a lower bracket. The more images the team orders between them, the better the rate for everyone.

Sessions run from the Rendlesham studio, or I can come to your workplace if that suits the team better.

Because the studio gives the same light every time, a headshot taken this year matches one taken last year. When a new starter joins, their photo sits beside the rest without looking bolted on.

LinkedIn headshots

A good number of headshot enquiries start with LinkedIn. A profile photo does its job at two sizes: a small circle in search results and comments, then full size when someone opens your profile. It needs to read clearly at both.

In a session we set up at least one frame with LinkedIn in mind. Head and shoulders, room around you for the circular crop, and a background that stays clean at thumbnail size. If you are updating a whole team’s profiles, that folds into the corporate session above.

If one strong LinkedIn image is all you need, the Essential session covers it. £110, which includes the £80 session fee and one edited image, chosen from your full gallery.

On location

If you would rather I came to you, I can. An on-location session adds £20, making the session fee £100 rather than the standard £80.

This works well when you want the images taken in your own working environment, or when getting a whole team to the studio is more trouble than it is worth.

The studio

The studio is at Base Business Park, Unit 5 Allied House, Rendlesham, Woodbridge, IP12 2TZ. It sits on the former RAF Bentwaters airbase, ten miles east-northeast of Ipswich.

There is a changing room, free parking on site, and full control over the lighting. That last point matters more than it sounds.

A lot of headshot photography is done on location using available light. It can look very good. It is also at the mercy of the weather, the time of day, and whatever the room happens to look like. Photograph one colleague in a bright meeting room in June and another in the same room in November, and you get two photographs that do not belong on the same team page.

In a controlled studio, the light is the same every time. The images from your session match each other, and they match the ones taken for the colleague who comes in six months later. If you need a consistent set of portraits across a company website, that is not a small detail. It is the whole job.

I cover Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex as standard, and the wider East of England for the right brief. Clients come from Ipswich, Woodbridge, Bury St Edmunds, Felixstowe and Colchester, along with Saxmundham, Leiston, Framlingham and the Suffolk coast.

What clients say

Common questions

Getting in touch

If you want to talk through what you need before booking, get in touch. I am happy to discuss the type of images you are after, where they will be used, and whether the studio or your workplace makes more sense.

Phone or WhatsApp: 07884 366 342. Or use the contact form.

If you are an actor, the actor headshots page covers sessions for Spotlight and agency submissions. For a broader set of images across multiple looks and uses, personal branding photography may be a better fit. For preparation, see my professional headshot tips.