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Executive portraits, staff photos, headshots, or publicity photos--these are portraits that people in business need for press releases, trade publications, company directories, company websites, and whatever else may come up.  These are the portraits that open doors, make winning impressions, and create opportunities to excel.

Lord & Darling Portraits photographs you on location at your place of business.  For a traditional or conservative portrait on location, we usually will set up a background and lighting in a conference room or empty office. It normally takes about 30 minutes to set up the equipment for this, but once that is done each portrait usually takes only 15 to 20 minutes of your time.  

We also make environmental executive portraits and editorial executive portraits. An environmental executive portrait is set up with lighting much like a traditional portrait, but your work environment is the background.  

An editorial executive portrait is even less formal--more of a "photojournalistic" style--and more like the photos of executives that accompany magazine articles, usually conveying a "real life" feel.  

The environmental executive portrait reveals your personality and how you relate to your work. By using locations with some connection to you, as well as doing a variety of poses in different settings, we get a much more interesting and personal portrait as a result.  

For formal executive portraits intended as wall décor in your home or office, please take a look at our Portrait Royalé page.   Remember that portraits used for wall décor in your office are tax deductible.

Actors' and Models  Traditionally, actors use black and white or color 8"x10-inch prints of a "headshot" photograph of themselves to submit to casting agencies or to take along to auditions.

A headshot is the most important marketing tool you can have. Most casting agencies or agents will want you to update your headshots every 6 months to a year.

It is your first impression -- it can lose you the job or get you the audition! There are specific requirements for an actor's headshot that differs from modeling headshots, executive portraits, or musician's publicity photographs. Lord and Darling Portraits knows what the proper and best actor's headshot requires to meet the demands of casting agencies and agents.

Products and Fees  

These rates  include a free consultation session, the photography session, and the Herald CD package.   

Our  Herald CD product package includes up to five finished JPEG and duplicate TIFF files of each person on a premium archival gold compact disk as well as a perpetual print promotional use license for the images. This license enables you to use the photographs as often as you wish in any format you wish, forever, without further charge.  However, the license included with the flat fee does not permit packaging, billboard, or television use; a further license for billboard or television use is optional.

Having both JPEG and duplicate TIFF images ensures your pictures can be used by any product or publisher.  If you're using your portrait in any kind of publication like a brochure, business card, or newspaper, simply let the print professional know that you can provide them with a copy of the image in either JPEG or TIFF on the  Herald CD. Almost all printers appreciate receiving the Herald CD as it provides the highest quality results and eliminates the need to scan a print.   We can also transmit images electronically to publications that prefer it that way.

The Herald CD package flat fee includes retouching of one image of your choice.  Our professional retouching is extensive, and is intended to make you look your best.  The  retouching  includes blemish removal, softening or removal of wrinkles, repair of flyaway hair, removing lint on clothes, brightening eyes and teeth, fixing a crooked collar and more.  Retouching additional images is an option at additional cost of $50 per additional image.

Perpetual License to Copy  You have a perpetual license to freely reproduce the photographs in our exclusive Herald CD for professional and publicity portraits. 

The license for the Herald CD does not include packaging, billboard, or television rights; those licenses are available as options.   The license to copy does not include copying Lord & Darling Portraits prints, but only making additional prints from the Herald CD.