Your LinkedIn photo is the only image of you that most people you've never met will ever see. Recruiters scroll past your profile in a second. Prospective clients land on your sales page and decide whether you look like someone they want to work with before they read a word of your pitch. Your photo isn't a vanity item. It's the first sentence of every professional conversation you don't know is happening.

Most LinkedIn portraits don't carry that weight. Office-lighting selfies, cropped wedding shots, headshots from a different job in a different decade. The fix isn't expensive or complicated. It's a single session, a sharp eye, and a portrait built specifically for how LinkedIn renders it.

What makes a good LinkedIn portrait different

A LinkedIn portrait isn't a generic headshot resized for a profile circle. The platform crops aggressively, displays at small sizes most of the time, and compresses image files in ways that flatten skin tones and blur soft focus. A portrait that looks beautiful at full size can read as muddy or off-balance once LinkedIn has its way with it.

Every LinkedIn session I run is shot and processed with the platform's quirks in mind. Tight enough crop that you read clearly at thumbnail size. Lighting calibrated to survive LinkedIn's compression. Expression and direction tuned for the audience your profile is actually meant to reach: hiring managers, prospects, board members, journalists, future colleagues. The portrait works at 1200×1200 on a desktop and at 96×96 on a recruiter's phone.

You also get a version that works beyond LinkedIn. The same files do double duty on Slack avatars, internal company directories, sales decks, conference speaker bios, podcast guest images, and Substack mastheads. One session, one image system, every professional surface covered.

What a LinkedIn session looks like

Sessions run about an hour from arrival to last frame. Studio in Oakville at Touchdown Coworking (2030 Bristol Circle, two minutes off the 403), or on-location at your office in Toronto, Mississauga, Burlington, or anywhere across the GTA the brief calls for.

Single look, focused brief. A clean professional crop optimized for LinkedIn, plus an optional slightly looser frame for use elsewhere. You see images on a large screen as we shoot, so you approve frames in real time. No surprises at delivery.

Who books a LinkedIn headshot session

For corporate teams updating LinkedIn at the same time

If you're rolling out a brand refresh, a website redesign, or a new sales push and your team's LinkedIn profiles need to look consistent, I run team-rate sessions. Multiple people through the studio in a single morning or afternoon, identical lighting and crop across every portrait, delivered as a coherent set.

For team bookings, see the executive and corporate portrait portfolio for examples of how the same approach scales across a leadership team or a full department.

Investment

Individual LinkedIn sessions are quoted at a transparent starting rate. Multi-person and team bookings are quoted per person with rates that scale down as headcount grows. Full pricing breakdown lives on the investment page. Free 15-minute strategy call before any booking is confirmed.