lookbook / client feedback
Client stories
Residents, founders, speakers and HR leads on how their portraits turned out, and how closely the finished frames resembled them.
I had tried two cheap AI headshot apps first, and both warped my tortoiseshell glasses and made my skin look like wax. A classmate recommended Rue Meridian Portraits because real retouchers screen the results. Every frame in my 40-photo gallery looked like me on a good day, and my residency programme adviser complimented how crisp and approachable the photo was.
Our company website used to look chaotic: cropped wedding photos, dark webcam screenshots and a quote of over $18,000 to hire photographers in fourteen cities. Miles helped us choose a warm architectural grey backdrop to match our site, and Claire set up a single onboarding link. Within four days all 42 employees had cohesive, natural portraits, and every new hire now gets theirs in week one.
Between fundraising calls and travel I kept cancelling in-person studio shoots for six months. Uploading twelve casual daylight selfies took ten minutes on my balcony. Twenty-four hours later I had eighty options, and Andre hand-refined my top three right down to stray hairs and blazer detail. Those finals went straight onto contributor bios, press kits and our pitch deck.
Every event organiser wants a different aspect ratio: square for podcasts, wide 16:9 with copy room for landing pages, clean cut-outs for slide thumbnails. Getting all of them pre-cropped and print-ready from one cohesive session ended the back-and-forth with conference designers and saves my assistant hours every month.
My first uploads were old group-cropped photos. The intake specialist kindly explained that arm's-length selfies distort facial proportions, then walked me through six quick chest-height window photos in five minutes. The finished portraits nailed my jawline and smile; even my partner could not tell they were not shot in a physical studio.
Clients judge an agent's credibility within seconds of seeing a headshot. Simone calibrated a bright architectural daylight profile for our brokerage, and our thirty agents now share one editorial look across yard signs, business cards and listings. Even the most camera-shy took casual window-light photos at home instead of stiffening up under studio strobes.