Personal Branding Photography · Denver

A headshot session answers one question: what do you look like. It's thirty to sixty minutes, one or two looks, and you leave with a small number of images of your face.

A brand session answers a different question: what do you look like doing what you do — and it has to answer it several ways at once, because a homepage, a speaker bio, a podcast request, and a month of posts all need different images. That means more time, more outfits, more than one setting, and planning before the day about where each image is going to live.

If all you need is a current headshot, book the headshot session — it's the right call and it costs less. This page is for when one image isn't enough.

Most of the people who book this say some version of that sentence in the first five minutes.

Almost nobody who dislikes photographs has actually been photographed well. They've been caught at events, shot on phones, or told to smile by someone who then said nothing else for twenty minutes. Being directed is a different experience — you'll know what to do with your hands, your weight, and your eyes, and you'll see the images on screen as we go, so you're never left wondering whether it's working.

You'll get a wardrobe guide when you book, and we'll go through your actual pieces on the planning call — send photos, I'll tell you what works.

The short version: bring more than you think you need, in a range from most formal to most relaxed. Solids photograph better than patterns. Fit matters far more than price. And each outfit should belong somewhere specific — one you'd wear on stage, one you'd wear to a client meeting, one you'd actually wear on a Tuesday. That range is what makes the images look like a library instead of a set.

Depends on the job each image has to do. Studio is cleaner and easier to control, and studio images drop onto any background later — better for headshots, press requests, and anything you can't predict the use of. Location gives context: your office, a workspace, somewhere that says something about the work.

Most Library and Story sessions use both. We decide on the planning call, and I'll scout the location if it's one I don't know.

It's not required. But it makes a bigger difference here than it does for a single headshot, mostly because it has to hold up across two or three hours and several changes. I can recommend people I work with regularly and you'd book them directly.

Most clients add it for a Library or Story session and skip it for a Refresh.

Start with a fifteen-minute call — we'll work out which collection actually fits and put a date on the calendar. A 50% retainer reserves it; the balance is due the day of the session. Two to three weeks out is typical, and further ahead if you're working toward a launch date.

You'll get a private proof gallery the same day as the shoot. Your finished images arrive within 48 hours of your selections, and the content gallery comes with them.

Yes — your website, social, press, a book jacket, speaking submissions, paid ads, anything for your own business and marketing. No licensing fees, no time limit, no per-use charge.

Two small asks: don't heavily filter them in ways that change how you look, and if a publication asks for a photo credit, it's Draper Studios.