Machina Labs builds robotic manufacturing systems in Los Angeles, and when they asked for team headshots, the obvious backdrop was the factory floor. Orange robotic arms, soft and out of focus behind every person, and one consistent look across the whole team.
This is the approach I recommend to any company with a distinctive workspace: skip the gray seamless and shoot where the work happens. The portable lighting does the same job it does in a studio, and the background tells the company’s story without a word of copy.
I flew down from the Bay Area with an assistant, set up once, and photographed the whole team in a single day. Los Angeles is a same-day trip for me, which makes an LA headshot day as simple to book as one in San Francisco.
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