Headshot uses – Website banners! One of the ways to make your website stand out is to add your photo to your website banner. This really helps personalise your website and shows you as the professional that you are. Obviously you need to use a great image which captures you at your best, showing oodles […]

Below is the latest version of our newsletter.  To receive your copy each month simply sign up on the homepage of the website (7 Biggest Headshot Mistakes section) Welcome to October Newsletter –   First Impressions Count Like it or not people searching for you online make their minds up about who you are based

Illuminate your brand. I recently had the pleasure of photographing the lovely Miti Ampoma from Miticom who has one of the biggest and most engaging smiles of anyone I’ve photographed. Miti is a communications expert and her mission is to put the soul back into business communication. Her recently launched book “The Innovative Communicator” shows how

I recently photographed a very inspirational chap called Richard Cook who has a condition called congential dysmelia. He says it has no meaning to him now so just says he was born with ‘short arms’. Richard contacted me as he wanted some photographs to illustrate a book he is writing called “Success in my hands,

This month I am launching my Challenge Cassidy campaign. Now I love a challenge and I also love photographing people who hate having their photos taken or are just very nervous about visiting a professional photographer. So I’m combining the 2 and trying to find all those camera-phobes and self confessed “non photogenic” people to

Faces on Twitter – As many of you will have realised I am a big fan of social media – I’ve got profiles on quite a few including Ecademy, Linkedin, Facebook, Plaxo, Xing, Naymz and Twitter. Now Twitter is both interesting and useful, as well as being fabulously original.  People use it to keep informed,

We have been digitized.  When the Prime Minister’s wife starts to Twitter, you know a revolution has not just started, but is already rolling. Get digital! Digital social and business networking brings many opportunities, not least the ability to stay and get in touch with so many more people.  People who would ordinarily fall out

Do you need image advice for your headshot? If you’re serious about growing your business you should be promoting yourself online and part of the digital networking phenomenon. You should have a presence on some if not all of these sites – ecademy, Linked-in, Facebook & Twitter as well as contributing to blogs and forums. 

You say it best when you say nothing at all. Catching someone’s eye is often down to chance – chance that you both happen to be there at the same time and in the same place, and chance that your smile is reciprocated.  You could be on the train, in the queue for the supermarket,

If you are looking for a new job at the moment, you will be well aware that you are not alone. This is not an easy time for anyone out of work. So it’s important to give yourself the best chance: psychologically and practically. Let me explain.