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How Reynolds & Brown Updated Their Team Photos for a Website Refresh Reynolds & Brown has been developing and managing commercial real estate across the East Bay since 1963 — more than 8 million square feet of office, retail, and industrial space over six decades, with roughly 2 million square feet still under active management today. It's the kind of company where longevity is the whole pitch: tenants stay, buildings get maintained, relationships last for decades. So when th

If you're building or updating your private practice profiles, you've probably noticed that every directory asks for a photo — and none of them make it easy to figure out exactly what they want. Some publish a technical spec. Others just say "professional and approachable" and leave you guessing. Here's what we've found for the directories Bay Area therapists use most, and how to get one photo that satisfies all of them at once. Psychology Today Psychology Today is the direct

Some headshot requests come with plenty of lead time. Others come with a deadline already attached. Cameron reached out after being accepted into a fellowship — his program needed a professional headshot posted to their website by Friday, and he was starting from zero: no recent photo, no session booked, just a few days to make it happen. The ask Cameron was direct about what he needed: availability that week, a straightforward rate, and the most basic session that would get

When Anne, a marriage and family therapist, needed a new professional headshot for her Psychology Today profile, she came in with a challenge a lot of mental-health professionals share: she wanted to look relaxed, warm, and confident — not stiff or corporate. For therapists, the headshot does real work. It's often the first impression a prospective client has before they ever pick up the phone, and it has to communicate approachability and trust. A photo that feels tense or o

When Sales Patriot, a fast-growing AI startup, needed professional headshots for their entire San Francisco team, they faced the problem every scaling company runs into: getting 15 busy people photographed consistently, without derailing a full day of work. Team's photos are customer-facing by definition. They show up on LinkedIn, in email signatures, on pitch decks, and across the website — often as the first impression a prospect forms before a single call. When everyone's

A photo that finally matched the person When a recent client arrived at our Jack London Square studio in Oakland, she mentioned she'd never had professional photos taken before. By the end of the session, she had a set of images that looked like the most natural, confident version of herself. She's a healthcare technology and policy advisor — someone whose work centers on improving human outcomes through better systems, governance, and equity. The kind of professional whose n

Client: Attorney, Slater Slater Schulman LLP Firm headquarters: Beverly Hills, CA Location photographed: Camerawerkz studio, Jack London Square, Oakland Service: Solo attorney headshot session Not every law firm headshot project starts with a full office of attorneys lined up for a team day. Sometimes it starts with one attorney, based in the Bay Area, working for a firm headquartered hundreds of miles away — and needing a headshot that matches the caliber of the practice wit

Case Study · Team Headshot Day · Corporate & Employee Headshots · Oakland Jack London Square Studio · Oakland, CA When Mid First Bank began planning the marketing rollout for their inaugural San Francisco branch, one of the first items on the checklist was a professional team headshot day. They needed more than individual portraits — they needed a cohesive visual identity that could anchor a website, press releases, and branch signage from day one. They booked a corporate hea

For more than 90 years, Raymond has shaped skylines and interiors across the Western U.S. — delivering world-class drywall, framing, plaster, and architectural finishes on projects that most people walk past every day without knowing Raymond built them. Nine decades of craft, reputation, and growth. And like a lot of companies that have been around that long, the team photos hadn't quite kept pace with the work. When Raymond came to us to photograph their Martinez office team

POST CONTENT Industry: Technology Location: Jack London Square Studio, Oakland Format: Solo professional headshot session David works in tech. That sentence covers a lot of ground in the Bay Area — and that's exactly the point. The tech industry here runs from early-stage startups to global enterprise companies, from engineers and product managers to founders and business development leads. What they all have in common is that their professional presence lives online. LinkedI

Client: WSB & J Law Firm | Location: 1900 Harrison St, Downtown Oakland, CA | Team Size: 20 Attorneys | Service: On-Site Corporate Team Headshots If you manage a law firm and you're wondering what it actually looks like to coordinate professional headshots for 20 attorneys in a single day — this is the case study for you. WSB & J Law Firm, based in the heart of Downtown Oakland, recently brought us in to refresh their full team's professional photography. The result? A smooth

AI headshot tools are everywhere right now. Upload a few selfies, pay $30, get 40 polished-looking photos in an hour. It sounds like a no-brainer — especially if you've been putting off updating your LinkedIn photo for two years. But Bay Area professionals — attorneys, therapists, tech founders, real estate agents, executives — keep booking studio sessions anyway. Here's an honest look at why. What AI Headshots Actually Are AI headshot generators work by training on your uplo

Erin McQueen is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT) practicing in the Bay Area, specializing in grief, life transitions, and working with individuals navigating serious illness. Like most therapists building a private practice, she needed a strong profile photo for her Psychology Today listing — the first thing a prospective client sees before deciding whether to reach out. She found Camerawerkz while searching Psychology Today headshots online. She had never ha

Industry: Financial Services / Foreign Exchange & Payments · Location: Jack London Square Studio, Oakland · Executive headshot session · Clients: Alfred, CEO Mark Lane spent 25 years in the Foreign Exchange and Payments industry before doing what most people in that world only think about — he started his own company. Mark Lane Inc. is built on a straightforward but industry-shifting idea: what if FX professionals actually owned their book of business? Not managed it. Owned i

Industry: Higher Education / Journalism & Media · Location: Jack London Square Studio, Oakland · Format: Solo executive headshot session Tanya Chawla has built a career at the center of some of the most respected names in journalism and public media. New York Public Radio. The Washington Post. Radiolab. These aren't entry-level stops — they're institutions that set the standard for serious storytelling, and Tanya worked at all of them. Most recently she served as an audio pro

TYLin is not a small firm. Founded in San Francisco in 1954 by engineering legend Tung-Yen Lin, the firm has grown into a global infrastructure powerhouse with over 3,000 professionals delivering some of the world's most complex and iconic projects — bridges, transit systems, airports, water infrastructure, and urban development across the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Their Bay Area work alone is extraordinary. TYLin led the design of the new eastern span of the San Francisco-

A San Diego Therapist Travels to Oakland for Her Psychology Today Headshot Madeline Reed is a Registered Psychological Associate at Aloha Psych Associates in San Diego. She was building out her Psychology Today profile — one of the most important client-facing tools a therapist has — and needed a headshot that would do what a good therapist profile photo needs to do: communicate warmth, approachability, and professional credibility in the same image. She made the trip from Sa

How Colliers Keeps New Hire Headshots Consistent Across the Bay Area When a new commercial real estate agent joins Colliers in the Bay Area, there's a lot that needs to happen fast. Business cards get ordered. Email signatures go live. The company website gets updated. And somewhere in the middle of onboarding week — usually with a tight deadline attached — the new hire needs a professional headshot. That's where we come in. The Situation A new commercial real estate agent ha

Category: Team Headshot Days | Client Stories | Oakland Location: Onsite · Oakland, CA Keywords: team headshot day Oakland, corporate headshots Oakland, onsite team photography Bay Area, professional headshots for teams Oakland, group headshot photographer Bay Area, company headshots Oakland When the team at Informing Change needed professional headshots for all 11 of their Oakland employees, they didn't want to pull everyone out of the office and send them across town. Th

Category: Solo Headshots | Client Stories | Bay Area Professionals Location: Camerawerkz Studio · Jack London Square, Oakland, CA Keywords: professional headshots Oakland, solo headshot Bay Area, executive headshots Bay Area, LinkedIn headshots Oakland, first professional headshot Bay Area, headshots for executives Oakland Jake had never had a professional headshot taken. Not once. He's a Director of Energy Market Policy at a major renewable energy company — a role that pu