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Founder films
A short film where you explain what you do, straight to camera.
Pictures first. Words after.Look like yourself,
Look like yourself,
on a good ordinary day
Headshots, founder films, speaker reels and profile pieces for people whose face is part of their work. Sessions are run at a pace that lets you settle, because the frames worth keeping are the ones after you forget the camera is there.
Headshots · Founder films · Speaker reels · ProfilesStudio hire or your own workplace
Contact sheet
The briefs this studio is built for
Six frames, six kinds of job. The photographs are illustrative; the briefs are the work we set out to do. Hover to pull a frame into focus and see it in colour, then open it for the full brief.
Before and after
One frame, graded for where it will live
Drag across the frame to compare the flat file straight off the camera with a finished grade. Then pick a look to see how the same sitting changes for a different use.
Blemishes go, your face stays
Grading sets the colour of the whole frame. Retouching is a separate and much smaller job, and the rule for it is short.
The temporary goes and the permanent stays. Spots, stray hairs and a twisted collar are removed. Lines, scars and the shape of your face are not, because the whole point is that you look like this when you walk in.
The default for a working headshot. Skin keeps its own colour, so the portrait still matches you when you walk into the room.
The grade here is applied in your browser to an illustrative frame. It shows the choice, not a finished file.
Moving pictures
When a still is not enough
The same sitting that makes the portrait can make the film. Hover a screen to open the letterbox; the clips play while they are in view.
Shot list
What we do
End to end, or any part of it.
Headshots and portraits
A working set for the profile, the byline, the board page and the media kit. The same person in all of them, lit and framed so they still match each other in a year.
Founder films
A short film where you explain what you do, straight to camera. Interview led, lightly prepared at most, and cut so it sounds like speech rather than a brochure being read aloud. One film about the person, not a running series for a feed.
Speaker reels
The couple of minutes an event organiser watches before deciding. Stage footage where it exists, a clear line on what you talk about, and no music bed doing the work your delivery should do.
Profile writing
Your bio at short, medium and full length, written from an interview and kept in your voice, ready for conference listings, panels and the person introducing you.
Personal brand set
Portraits, cutouts, a short film and the words, delivered in the sizes each platform wants, so nothing important gets cropped out by someone else's uploader.
Refresh sessions
For people who already have a good set and need it updated after a new role, a new look or a rebrand, matched deliberately to what already exists.
Capabilities
SessionStudio hire or your own workplace
DeliveryWeb, print and social crops
RetouchingBlemishes go, your face stays
FormatsStills, film and written profile
About
More about Face Media
Fewer setups. Longer sessions.
Most professional photos fail the same way. They are technically correct and they do not look like the person. A face held in a smile for too long stops reading as a face, and everyone who knows you can tell. Face Media is built around the opposite approach: fewer setups, longer sessions, and a conversation running the whole time, so that what we keep is you mid sentence rather than you posing.
We are built for people whose credibility arrives in the room before they do. Founders, partners, clinicians, academics, consultants and anyone who has to stand up and be believed. One session can produce the portrait, the short film and the words that sit underneath them, which is simpler to run and far more consistent than collecting those pieces from three different suppliers over two years. Face Media is a studio of Sukh Sandhu Pty Ltd, based in Melbourne.
Before you book
Questions
The things people ask before they sit for a portrait.
I am not photogenic. Is that a problem?
Most people say this about themselves, and it usually means they have only ever been photographed badly and quickly. Being at ease takes time, so time is built into the session. Nothing is delivered that you have not chosen yourself.
Do I need hair and makeup?
It is not required. It does help under lights, and it helps a group look consistent, so we will tell you plainly when it is worth arranging and when it would make no difference.
How much retouching do you do?
The temporary goes and the permanent stays. Spots, stray hairs and a twisted collar are removed. Lines, scars and the shape of your face are not, because the whole point is that you look like this when you walk in.
Can you photograph a whole team?
Yes, and it is worth doing in one visit. Adding a new portrait to an old set can be matched, but it is never as clean as shooting everyone under the same light on the same day.
Start with a picture. We will find the words after.
Tell us who needs to be photographed, filmed or written up, and where it will appear. Write to sukh@sukhsandhu.com and we will read it.