Now on offer: Colour Block Business Portraits
If you’re looking for a simple, clean business portrait, consider your background doesn’t have to be white to help your image pop.
Here are 3 things to think about if you want to create a business portrait with solid colour as a background that is professional, highlights your personality, and also aligns with your online brand.
1. What are your brand colours?
Working with your brand colours is helpful to create business portraits that visually align and look smart and consistent on your website. Does your business have existing brand colours? Get inspiration from the colours that are used as part of a logo, or as part of the brands visual identity.
If you don’t have a logo or a clear visual identity yet, think about colours that you connect with, or that best represent your personality or what it is you do. Adobe has an awesome free Colour Wheel tool that is fun to play around with and explore colours that work together and speak to you.
2. Bringing in contrast
Bring a bit of lifestyle into your portrait by including a prop that speaks to your interests or personality, (eg a mug, flowers, a footstool), or a prop that speaks to what it is you do. If you’re a nutritionist for example, why not include a well placed ingredient or item of food or drink in your portrait somewhere.
3. More than one colour?
Love colour? Create a background that uses more than one colour! Think of splitting up the background for two or even three colours to share space. Get creative and play around, and you’ll have portraits which you can use to share different story ‘moods’.
Check out a few images below from a session with Rachel!
Maxine is a photographer based in Vancouver, Canada, and works with small heart-centered businesses to create joyful, honest images so they can show up on-brand, and aligned with their values.