Marisol Treviño
Founder & lead AI imaging director
Commercial portrait photographer turned AI imaging director, who calibrates every Northlight lighting profile after real medium-format studio optics.
Human-curated AI portrait studio · Minneapolis
Headshots that actually look like you, in 48 hours
No plastic skin filters and no half-day studio commute. At Northlight Headshot Studio, commercial portrait retouchers calibrate a private AI lighting model from your everyday phone photos, keeping your true likeness, your eyewear and your natural skin texture.
Individual & distributed team headshot packages
A quick LinkedIn refresh, a keynote press kit or two hundred remote employees in twelve time zones under one studio backdrop: each package has a fixed scope and a published price.
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Individual Professional Headshot Pack
Four studio and architectural backdrop styles, smart wardrobe pairings, optical QA screening and full high-resolution commercial downloads.
$69
40 curated portraits · 48 hours
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Executive & Founder Personal Brand Suite
Eight tailored environments, priority delivery, and hand finishing in Photoshop and Capture One on your top three selects.
$129
80 portraits + 3 retouched finals · 24 hours
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Remote & Distributed Team Headshot Program
The same lighting ratio, colour grade, crop and brand backdrop for remote employees in any city, without flying anyone in.
$55 / person
5+ team members · unified brand look
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Keynote Speaker, Author & Press Media Kit
Vertical, wide banner and tight square crops, plus transparent-background PNG cutouts ready for conference flyers and book jackets.
$165
Multi-aspect editorial & stage-ready suite
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Guided Selfie Audit & 1-on-1 Retouch Upgrade
A 15-minute live photo check before training, or precise manual retouching on existing portraits for tattoos, jewellery or exact eyewear.
$49
Live upload coaching or manual hero retouch
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Enterprise Custom Brand Backdrop & Onboarding Portal
A bespoke studio or architectural lighting profile built around your firm's visual identity guidelines and ongoing HR hiring workflow.
from $450
Custom style calibration + team seat credits
Why human retouchers make the difference
One-click headshot apps tend to reshape jawlines, invent uncanny teeth, blur eyeglass frames and wipe away freckles and laugh lines. Every Northlight Headshot Studio gallery passes through two stages: studio-lighting synthesis in an isolated model, calibrated to medium-format portrait optics, then manual inspection and colour grading by our commercial retouching team in Minneapolis.
The light our portrait profiles are built on
Our lighting profiles start in a real studio: the backdrops, softboxes and colour references our imaging directors measure before a single portrait is generated.
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A white cyclorama under overhead lamps and a softbox: the reference for our crisp alabaster seamless look. -
A black backdrop between two softboxes, the low-key setup behind our charcoal keynote portraits. -
A colour-checker chart under even light, so skin-tone balance is measured rather than guessed.
Meet our imaging directors, retouchers & stylists
Photographers, retouchers, stylists and a privacy specialist: real people check every gallery before it reaches you. You can ask for one of them by name through the contact form.
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Aaron Whitfield
Corporate branding & wardrobe stylist
Certified Image Consultant who chooses industry-appropriate wardrobe palettes and designs unified visual lookbooks for distributed company teams.
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Priya Raghunathan
Senior portrait retoucher & optical QA lead
Editorial retoucher and Capture One colourist who inspects every gallery and hand-finishes hero portraits for true skin texture and accurate eyewear.
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Desmond Clay
Team onboarding & data privacy coordinator
CIPP/US privacy specialist overseeing isolated single-client model storage, automatic 30-day data deletion and smooth HR team rollouts.
What founders, job seekers & HR teams say
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Unified 42 remote teammates across nine states and three countries under one gorgeous studio look in less than a week.
Camille R., VP of People
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Saved me during ERAS residency application week. Natural skin texture, and my actual prescription glasses looked spot-on.
Dr. Amir H.
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The three hand-retouched hero portraits went straight onto my contributor bios, our press kit and our pitch deck.
Elena V., SaaS founder
Questions about likeness, uploads & privacy
What photos do I upload, and do I need to dress up?
No suit and no studio visit needed. Upload 10 to 14 well-lit phone photos taken on different days, without sunglasses, hats, beauty filters or arm's-length wide-angle distortion. Wardrobe and lighting are generated separately.
Why won't these look plastic like one-click apps?
We lock facial proportions to your real features, simulate medium-format lighting and subtle sensor grain, and our commercial retouchers inspect and colour-grade every gallery before you see it.
What happens to my selfies after delivery?
They are processed in a private single-client container, never used to train public models and never shared. Source uploads and model weights are purged 30 days after delivery, or at once on request.
What if the portraits don't look like me?
Orders that meet our upload checklist carry our Likeness Guarantee: an imaging specialist reviews your source angles and re-runs your model free, or refunds you if the high-res masters have not been downloaded.
Ready for portraits that look like you?
Start an individual order, ask for a team sample or send a quick question about eyewear or backdrops. Our imaging team replies within a few business hours.