Remote headshots
Real, live-directed remote sessions for individuals, new hires, and distributed teams — a photographer guides lighting, posing, expression, and framing on video. Not AI. Not avatars. Not screenshots.
Teams are distributed. Not everyone can come to LA. The default fallbacks — selfies, AI-generated avatars, recycled old profile photos — leave the team page looking inconsistent, the new-hire onboarding flow incomplete, and the brand standard broken. Remote employees still need credible, brand-aligned portraits; the workflow just has to change. That's what this page does — real photography, delivered through a remote production system designed for distributed companies.
Remote packages are priced per person and built for individuals, new hires, and distributed teams who need guided real-photo headshots without coming to a studio.
Remote headshots are live-directed by a real photographer and built for distributed teams, hybrid companies, and professionals who need a polished headshot without travel.
$200
For one person who needs a polished remote business headshot.
$120 Per person · best for teams of 3+ people
Per person · best for teams of 3+ people.
$100 Per person · for larger remote rollouts of 10+ people
Per person · for larger remote rollouts of 10+ people.
Availability, location format, and final scheduling are confirmed after inquiry.
Remote sessions are guided live. The photographer adjusts phone position, light direction, background, posture, expression, and framing in real time so the final image feels intentional rather than self-shot — real photography produced through a remote workflow.
A slot per person or back-to-back blocks for distributed teams.
A short prep note covering phone, light, background, and wardrobe so the call starts ready.
A normal video call from a recent smartphone — no special software, no professional camera.
Photographer adjusts phone position, light, background, posture, and expression on the call.
Review proofs in your private gallery and pick the frames you want retouched.
Natural retouching plus a directed digital backdrop so the team gallery stays consistent.
Final files for every person, sized for LinkedIn, the team page, and press use.
Without direction, remote captures default to whatever lighting, angle, and posture the participant already has — which is usually phone-at-arm's-length under a ceiling light. A directed remote session moves the phone, the light, the background, and the posture deliberately in real time. The result holds up next to an in-person session because the same six decisions are being made — lighting, angle, posture, expression, background, crop — on a different production setup. The posture and expression side of that direction is the same playbook as our in-person guide to headshot poses.
Some teams call these virtual headshots, others remote headshots — either way, the session is directed live by a photographer over video: framing, light, expression, and wardrobe corrected in real time, so a distributed team still ends up with one consistent look.
Headshot Buro photographs remote employees as part of a Los Angeles engagement. If your team has no LA presence at all, the group's dedicated service is Remote Headshots, which covers virtual headshots for remote teams in any city, on the same live-directed standard.
LA-based people are photographed in person on the office or studio day; distributed people are photographed through virtual team headshots on the same visual brief. We match crop, background direction, color, expression range, and retouching style across both sources. See team headshots in Los Angeles for the in-person rollout, and corporate headshots for the visual standard the whole company runs against.
For the full walk-through, read how to prepare for a remote headshot session.
Portfolio
A selection of remote headshots for distributed teams, new hires, professional profiles, company bios, and consistent team pages.
No. Remote headshots are real photographs of you, taken live on video by a photographer who directs lighting, background, posing, expression, and framing in real time. They are not AI-generated avatars, not stylized illustrations, not screenshots of a video call, and not DIY upload retouching. The output is a real photograph that holds up next to an in-person session — captured remotely because the team is distributed, not because the photo is synthetic.
A recent smartphone with a working back camera, a charged battery, a stable phone position (a small tripod or a stack of books), a quiet space, a window or a clean source of even light, and two or three wardrobe options. You join a normal video call; the photographer guides setup and posing for the full session. No professional camera, no studio lighting, and no editing software on your side.
Yes — the remote workflow is designed for hybrid rollouts. LA-based employees are photographed in person on the office or studio day; distributed employees are photographed live on video using the same backdrop direction, color profile, and retouching style. We process the full gallery against one reference so the team page reads as one coordinated set, not two visibly different sources stitched together.
About 10 minutes per person for the directed shoot, plus a few minutes for the pre-shoot setup check. Remote Individual is one person; Remote Team bundles three or more at $120 per person; Remote Large Team bundles ten or more at $100 per person. Sessions are scheduled in back-to-back blocks for distributed teams so the whole rollout completes in a planned window.
Simple and uncluttered. A clean wall in a neutral tone, a hallway with depth, or a tidy corner of a room works. Avoid open windows behind you (the light reverses), busy bookshelves, household clutter, and anything that pulls focus from your face. The photographer reviews the background live and helps you reposition; the final image uses a directed digital backdrop where helpful so the team gallery stays consistent.
Yes. New hires can be added through the same remote workflow at any point — they're photographed against the same visual brief on file from the original team rollout, with the same backdrop direction, color profile, and retouching style. The result holds up next to the original gallery; the team page stays consistent as the company grows. Add-ons are quoted after inquiry; remote single-session pricing applies.