I was a little nervous when I arranged for 15 senior executives to have corporate headshot photos taken through someone I found on the web and this intensified into fear when I took one of the execs to the studio. We rounded a corner to see a burned out Range Rover sitting outside of what appeared to be a derelict building. After some searching we found a buzzer for Studio 25 and entered a building which didn't look much better on the inside.
Tony Thornton took the photos, chatting away and putting my exec at ease. He was so friendly that we were able to forget about the fact that we were sitting in a horrible, grotty space.
The next day Tony was scheduled to arrive at our office to take the remaining photos. He turned up on time, got set up quickly and finished the job in the very short space of time he'd been given.
The CD of photos arrived one week later and they were perfect. Tony had matched the backgrounds of the photo taken at his studio with the ones taken in our office so well that you would never know they were taken in two different locations, with differing light. His friendly style clearly had a positive effect on everyone as there were several people who clearly did not want to have their photos taken, but looked perfectly happy and relaxed in the finished product.
The upshot is that my boss was really impressed with the work Tony did for us (so I got brownie points for having set everything up), but she was especially happy with the price - £150 for set up then £50 per person. read more