Questions to help define your Commercial Photography Project

If you want the best images for your business, be ready to answer these questions when meeting with your photographer. The best photographers conduct consultations that leave you with a clear understanding of three things: your needs, your expectations, and your costs. For us, a consultation is always a conversation, an interactive exchange of ideas […]

How to Know You’ve Found the Perfect Team Headshot Photographer

There are three qualities you should keep in mind when hiring someone to take your team’s head shots and group portraits. What should you do when you want to redo your team’s headshots? Call us for reshoots, of course! Which is exactly what the office manager for a local cosmetic dentistry office did. During our […]

120 Head Shots in Under Two Hours

A case study in efficiency for large company portraits.   The bigger your business gets, the more challenging company portraits can become. Coordinating dozens to hundreds of people for cohesive individual imagery is not easy. We also know that these sorts of sets are necessary for successful marketing and business development.   We make the […]

From Idea to Image: How We Help Business Owners Tell Their Story

When it comes to marketing, business owners in every industry face a common challenge: How can I share my products, people, and processes in ways that generate sales?   Answering this question on your own can become overwhelming and over complicated quickly for a number of reasons, like: It can be hard to visualize your […]

What You Need to Know About Our Monthly Headshot Special

When was the last time you updated your LinkedIn profile photo?   If your answer was anywhere close to “pre-pandemic,” then you need to stop and see if you have 20 minutes free on Monday, March 22. If you do, then we hope to see you at our studio for a short and sweet headshot […]

Commercial Photographer Kelly Settle Takes Gold at PPA International Competition

We are proud to announce that our founder and CEO, Kelly Settle, is a gold medalist!   Kelly was awarded this designation at the 2020 International Photographic Competition, hosted by the Professional Photographers of America – a trade association she’s been a member of for over ten years.   “I have always been in awe […]

Healthcare Photo Wins Gold at Annual Hermes Awards

Kelly Ann Photography, in partnership with Premier Health, was announced as a winner of the gold ADDY Award in Elements of Advertising from the American Advertising Federation-Dayton last February for a healthcare campaign image, titled, “Pivot – Our Care Lives Here.”

Three Reasons Why Stock Photos Don’t Stack Up

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New clients frequently end up on our doorstep after using stock photography for their marketing, frustrated and trying to figure out why the images aren’t working for them. At the time, it seemed they found a good deal on what they needed at prices they wanted! But then complaints come in from customers, like how […]

Why hire a professional photographer for your head shots?

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Your headshot represents YOU and it just might be your first contact with a potential client or employer. That is why it is so important to have a current, professional, high quality headshot. Using a poorly lit, awkwardly posed cell phone image doesn’t convey a professional message.   There are many reasons you should hire a […]