Last month Organic Headshots had its yearly booth at Navy Pier as a sponsor of BrandSmart, which just celebrated its 20th year. Way to go, AMA Chicago! It was a fabulous event, as always, and we met some awesome new people, said hello to old friends, and learned a great …

Deanna Morgan pulled us aside after we took her photos and asked if she could take a peek at them. With a sigh of relief when she saw them, she said she was initially concerned about her skin being exposed properly, and was happy we nailed it. Before her role …

Which Way Do You Tilt Your Head? Last year during Women’s History Month I told the story of why I started my own photography business after leaving a male-dominated industry, and why I felt it was important to be certified as a woman-owned business. This year I want to quickly

Men Get Makeup For Their Photos Too Before I go into why the answers to all those questions are the same, let me start by defining “men” as individuals who present as male and wear little to no makeup on a daily basis, at least for the purposes of this …

How Does a Small Business Owner Take Maternity Leave? She doesn’t. But she wins an award for the shortest blog post ever, right? THE PLAN Maternity leave looks different for everyone, especially the self-employed and small business owners.

By the end of December, our studio will have photographed just over 2,000 people in 2021. We want to thank all of our amazing clients for not only choosing us and trusting us to take your portraits!

How to Hide a (Pregnant) Belly in Your Headshot If you’re updating your headshot while pregnant, you probably don’t want to showcase the fact that you’re pregnant in the photo… unless you want new connections on LinkedIn to still ask you when you’re due while your…

While we’re coaching our clients into poses and smiles, we sometimes have to overcome an unexpected obstacle: bad photo tips and tricks floating around the interwebs. Here are four of the most common how-to-look-better-in-photos “hacks” that are really just ridiculous…

Retouching your photos is like adding salt to your paprikash: it’s all to your own taste. Some people like a little, some like a little more, and some like a whole lot. But at some point, if you go too far, it’s completely inedible. Or in the case of photos, …

Raise your hand if you’ve ever done a Google image search, then copied and pasted one of the images into your presentation, or website, or… anywhere. Guess what! You just committed a federal crime. If you copy a photo from a Google search, Pinterest, Instagram…

“What a year, right?” is not an original thing to say this week. The year 2020 has been a heck of a lousy ride for a lot of us, and our studio is no exception. BUT. Even though we had to close as a “non-essential business” for 74 days in …

This year’s holiday group photo used a little magic to create. Check out this video to see how we were all brought together while staying apart! Happy Holidays from the whole crew at Organic Headshots! (Except for Anjelica, who’s on maternity leave.