Headshots at your workplace
Business headshots for Maple Cross, made at the Northwood studio or at your own premises off Denham Way.
Headshot Photographer in Maple Cross
Business, LinkedIn and acting headshots for Maple Cross, taken at the Northwood studio or at your workplace and sized for profiles, agents and Spotlight.
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Headshots that work in Maple Cross
- What the session includes: Relaxed guidance even if you dislike being photographed, a look at the frames on the day, and edited headshots supplied in the formats you need for LinkedIn, a website or casting.
- Studio or location: In the Northwood studio, or at your workplace within about 20 miles for one person or a whole team.
- Distance from the studio: Measured in a straight line, the studio on The Broadway in Northwood is about 5 miles from Maple Cross, and the drive is a little further.
- How to book: Call 07956 505383, send a WhatsApp message to the same number, or use the enquiry form on this page.
We turn up with our own lighting, a clean backdrop and someone to stand in for the first test frame, so the first person to sit is not the one we are setting up on.
Frames go on a screen between sitters, which means a collar or a hairline gets fixed while it still can be. Edited files come back cropped square and wide, with the background held identical across everybody. If your employer already has pictures of other staff, send one over beforehand and we will match the crop and the background tone to it.
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…Kaushik knows his stuff and is very friendly and helpful, ready to go that extra mile to provide a really good service. He made us feel relaxed, comfortable and very much at home throughout the session - these details are so important to help you look your best. I would have no hesitation in recommending Kaushik to anyone looking to have great photographs taken.
I recently had a photography session here for my website, and I couldn't be happier with the experience. The photographer was incredibly professional, calm, patient, and made me feel comfortable throughout the session. I absolutely love all of the photos, they exceeded my expectations. I would highly recommend their services to anyone looking for high-quality, professional photography
My daughter and her fiancé went to Kaushik for their photos, and we had a wonderful experience. He is incredibly friendly, patient, and helpful. He really took his time with them and captured beautiful, professional-quality photos. We highly recommend Kaushik Photography!
What we offer
Headshot photography in Maple Cross
Matched team headshots
One sitter or a whole team, photographed to a single setup so the finished row matches.
Profile-ready crops
Square crops for profiles, wider frames for websites, retouched by hand and supplied ready to upload.
Local and experienced
Headshots across Hertfordshire
Focus and expression are checked as we work, so a soft frame or a half-blink is caught during the session rather than after it. Most of a good headshot is direction, so we talk you through posture, chin and expression a small step at a time.
Glasses wearers keep their glasses on throughout. Reflections are dealt with by moving the light, so the images show you as people actually meet you. What arrives is a set of finished headshots you can upload the same day.
Recent work
Recent professional headshots
Offices and stations near Maple Cross for a working-day headshot
Where a plain backdrop feels too formal, an office in the Maple Cross business area east of the village could give a headshot a working context, photographed during a normal day with only a short break from your desk. The office area, station and roads listed below are each summarised from the published page linked beside them.
- Chorleywood station. Chorleywood is a Zone 7 station on the Metropolitan line. 1
- Maple Cross business area. Maple Cross has a designated industrial and business area east of the village, used by company offices for its access to the motorway network. 2
- The Cross on Denham Way is a listed former inn with parts dating back to at least the 1700s; after local opposition stopped its demolition in 2010, the historic building was kept and converted into homes. 3
- Denham station on North Orbital Road, Denham Green (UB9 5ES), is managed by Chiltern Railways and has step-free access to all platforms. 4
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Headshot Photographer in Maple Cross, FAQs
Frequently it will, although we tend to shoot several expressions and crops so you keep some choice. One strong frame can happily cover LinkedIn, your website and your email signature, while a personal-branding session hands you a broader set for more varied needs.
The studio, if you want a clean repeatable background with nothing in the frame to date the picture. Your own premises, if the room says something useful about the work, or if getting a team out of the building is the harder problem. For a Maple Cross booking either is straightforward, since we drive to you off Denham Way carrying the same lighting we would use at Northwood.
Fairly quickly. Chosen frames are usually retouched and with you within a few days, and sooner when time is tight. If a new job, a website launch or a casting has a deadline, tell us when you book and we will plan the edit around it.
Yes. We frame and crop with LinkedIn in mind, so your image reads clearly as a small thumbnail. Extra sizes for your company website, email signature and other profiles come with it, finished to the same standard.
Often, yes. Maple Cross is close to the Northwood studio, so a single sitter can usually be fitted into a gap in the week without much warning, either at the studio or at your address. Tell us the deadline when you call and we will say honestly whether it can be met. Short notice changes nothing about the setup, and we still bring lighting instead of using whatever the room has.
Serving Maple Cross
A headshot photographer near Maple Cross
Headshot sessions are open to anyone in Hertfordshire, and from Maple Cross (WD3) the studio is a short journey. It sits close to Mill End and Sarratt, which we cover too. Headshots can be taken at the Northwood studio or at your office in Maple Cross, with the same lights either way.
Maple Cross sits on the western edge of Rickmansworth in Three Rivers District, and east of the village is a business area where company offices are based for access to the motorway. Denham Way, the A412 between Rickmansworth and Uxbridge, runs through the village, joined by a spur from junction 17 of the M25. The Cross, a listed former inn on Denham Way whose oldest parts go back to at least the 1700s, was saved from demolition after local opposition in 2010 and turned into homes.
More in Maple Cross
More photography services in Maple Cross
The same studio, experience and personal care apply to every service we offer in Maple Cross. Explore the rest: we also cover headshot photography across Hertfordshire, including Sarratt, Carpenders Park, Chorleywood, Hemel Hempstead, Croxley Green and Oxhey.
A headshot has to survive comparison. It sits beside pictures of everyone else on a team page or in a directory, and the eye reads the differences between them before it reads any of the faces. That is why the technical decisions count for more here than in any other kind of portrait, and why most of them are decisions about consistency rather than about flattery. Maple Cross has no obvious room of its own for this work. It is a small village of post-war houses beside a motorway junction, and the rooms in those houses, like the rooms behind the addresses along Denham Way, are ordinary rooms with ordinary ceiling lights. A ceiling light is the worst single source for a face, because it arrives from directly overhead: it lights the tops of the cheeks and the end of the nose while leaving the sockets dark. The remedy is always the same. Switch it off, bring one light in at roughly the height of the sitter's own eyeline and slightly to one side, and let a white card fill the other side. The second decision is separation. A wall immediately behind the head takes the same light as the face and gives a flat, cut-out result, whereas a couple of metres of space lets the background settle a shade darker than skin, and that gap is what makes a headshot look made rather than snapped.
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At the studio
Headshots at the Northwood studio, about 5 miles away
The studio is at The Broadway, 21 Joel St, Northwood HA6 1NU; from Rickmansworth station it is a few stops along the Metropolitan line to Northwood Hills, the nearest stop. Alongside booked headshot, portrait and family sessions, the studio does its own printing, framing, restoration and scanning. The studio keeps hours of 10:30 to 18:00 from Monday to Saturday and 13:00 to 18:00 on Sundays, so a headshot can fit around a working day.
Your headshot is taken by Kaushik Bathia FBIPP FMPA, holder of five European Kodak Gold Awards, who set up in Northwood in 2001.
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For a whole team, corporate headshots at your Maple Cross office keep everyone on one consistent lighting set-up, and performers can book a model or actor portfolio with several looks in one sitting.
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