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Why Have a Professional Business Headshot?

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Steve

Why use a professional photographer? These days, anyone can use a smartphone and take a picture, but the fact is, that’s not good enough for professional business headshots.

Here are five reasons why you should hire a professional for your business headshot:

We like to do business with people (especially small business) so make sure your personality shines through – a quick snap on a iPhone taken at on a Friday because ‘you must get that website finished’ just won’t give the right impressions
People remember faces, so use your headshot to promote yourself. professional profiles, online presence
The right business portrait can enhance your business brand and a small investment in professional photography can have along-lasting impression on brand and clients.
A professional photographer will make sure you look your best and here at Steve Gubbins Studios we’ll also make sure you feel your best. You will feel relaxed and you’ll enjoy yourself – that really does come through in a photograph and it gives a good impression.
We don’t just take your picture, we provide you with business portraits. That includes enhancing the photographs if needed and providing you digital copies for use where you need them.

View some of our business headshots and contact us to make a booking

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Business Benefits from Portraits

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Steve

Businesses want to keep customers and one way of doing that is to thank them for their custom and their loyalty.

Steve Gubbins Studios offers all businesses an unusual way to thank your customers. A gift that your customers will really appreciate.

One local company, Sussex Mortgage Centre, is benefiting from portraits as a gift for their loyal customers. If you’d like to discuss how we can help you to build loyalty in your customers, call Steve today on 01403 264777

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Reasons to Give a Family Portrait as a Gift

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Steve

A high quality, professional family portrait is a beautiful gift idea because it is memorable and irreplaceable. Whether it is given to grandparents, cousins, aunts or uncles or any other relative, professional photographs have value. Giving a family portrait sends a message that this present was not simply picked up last minute and given out of obligation. It says that the giver truly cares about the recipient.

Three reasons why a family portrait makes a great gift:

A gift says a great deal about both the giver and the recipient. This is why thought and time should be placed into any present, whatever the occasion. A family portrait makes a perfect gift for a relative because it is specific, thoughtful and unique. It is a chance to give a gift that will not be exchanged, returned or left at the back of a cupboard, but will instead be treasured for many years.
In an attempt to avoid the unfeeling or empty nature of too many presents, some choose to give expensive electronics or jewellery, trying to capture some meaning simply by spending more money. Instead of a mass-produced gift, giving a family portrait shows that you cared enough about the person you give it to that you did not simply use the price tag as a gift-giving shortcut, but rather that you put real thought and effort into the gift.
Finally, giving a high quality photograph also allow families to keep up with distant relatives with whom relationships, for whatever reason, may have cooled. In some cases, it can be difficult to open up lines of communication, especially if they have been closed for a long period of time, whether due to hurt feelings or simply time and distance. The gift of a professional family portrait can be a perfect way to spark conversation and communication among loved ones.

Here at Steve Gubbins Studios we make sure that all our family portraits could become perfect gifts too. Find out more about the portrait experience.

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Professional Business Headshots Build Brand

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Steve

Most Businesses understand the importance of branding as part of a marketing strategy. Money is spent on corporate identities, making sure all elements of a business are ‘on brand’ and that websites, brochures, business cards and mailings all confirm to branding standards. What a shame then when businesses, remembering that ‘people buy from people’ forget that pictures and photographs should also enhance brand.

How many times have you visited a website (or social media site) and seen unprofessional business headshots? We’ve all seen those photographs where a trusted professional is turned into a small, badly-lit anonymous person.

Websites which feature professionally taken business headshots of owners and employees make the business more approachable and more human. Making sure the headshots also present everyone in a way consistent with brand is good marketing.

Steve Gubbins Studios produce professional business headshots to enhance your brand. Either in the studio in Warnham or on location in your offices. Either for larger organisations wanting a series of portraits or individuals running their own businesses. Call to discuss brand enhancing business headshots: 01403 264777

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Steve Gubbins Studios in The Resident

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Steve

We’re in The News!

The Resident has published an article about one of our abstract photographs. Hanging in Phoenix Health and Body Centre, Southwater, this picture really does have a story. You can read more on page 18.

Abstract photography is available to view at the Studios in Warnham and can be commissioned. Call Steve on 01403 264777 to talk about your ideas.

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Make-up by Debbie

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Steve

Make-up is very important to many of us when we’re having our photograph taken, so here at Steve Gubbins Studios we offer a professional make-up service to all our portrait clients.

Debbie, our professional make-up artist can be on hand to provide you with a natural make-up to bring out the very best in you. She will co-ordinate your make-up to complement your skintone, hair colour and clothes for your portrait. She has many years of experience in creating the right effect for a variety of portraits and will need to be booked in advance to ensure she has the time she needs to complete your look ready for your sitting.

However, if you prefer to do your own make-up then non-shine products are essential so that your face will not reflect the light. Make-up should be heavier than for normal daytime use – apply a little more blusher and eye make-up.

Not only is Debbie skilled in make-up for portraiture but she carries out a Bridal make-up service in clients’ homes and has done make-up for Television.

Read more about Debbie and Beauty Works.

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