Personal Branding Photography in Maryville, IL
Strategic photography for entrepreneurs, creatives, and professionals throughout the Greater St. Louis area.
Your personal brand is more than just a headshot — it’s how people recognize, remember, and trust you. Ridgeway Portrait Design creates personal branding photography that tells your story visually and supports your business goals. Based in Maryville, IL, we work with entrepreneurs, professionals, and creatives from Edwardsville, Collinsville, Glen Carbon, Troy, and across the St. Louis Metro East area.
Personal branding sessions are ideal for business owners, coaches, speakers, and professionals who need consistent imagery for websites, social media, marketing materials, and digital platforms. Each session is designed to help you look confident, approachable, and aligned with your brand — not stiff or generic.
Don’t TELL your viewers why you’re perfect for them, SHOW them!
Personal Branding Photography is for entrepreneurs and business owners who want to use photography to help build up their online presence and brand.
Personal Branding helps your dream clients understand how working with you can help them achieve their goals or solve their problems.
Photos that authentically show off your style and personality are important to getting clients, establishing a brand and growing your business.
Why would I need Personal Brand Photography?
I already have a current headshot. Headshot photography is important, but a headshot is an image that is used as a brief introduction. But you need more...
Audiences increasingly want a personal connection with people, their brands and businesses. Personal Branding Photography will visually tell your story. Making a meaningful connection of your passion and energy for impactful marketing that makes you stand out with your audience.
Your dream clients could miss the fact that you are perfect for them entirely, which let’s face it, will not help you achieve yourgoals.
Who are you as a person? What is your expertise? What do you stand for?
Branding Photography lets your viewers, followers, and fans feel like they know you. It can help form a connection, before you even connect! It is vital that you are found to be approachable to clients, it will be more likely that clients will want to use your services. We like to use this simple example; If you are a dog person and you have photos with your dog and a potential client views it and says "I have a dog too", now you have made an connection.
Your images can be focused on you, photos of you working with clients, portraits of you in your work environment, the products you make, services you offer, and events you take part in, or they can show a glimpse into your personal life with unique, authentic and lifestyle images.
People want to do business with people they know, like and trust.
What is a Story?
Being an entrepreneur, there are many stories to tell about the person behind your brand. Could be that you work from home, in which case we will take photos of you at your computer. Maybe another could show that you like to spend your spare time cooking with your children, that would be a good option to get photos of also. What ever your story is, we will show it in a style that shows the person behind your brand authentically.
Where do I use Personal Brand Photography?
- Personal Brand Photography is a mixture of photojournalism, lifestyle, and portraiture.
- Use the photos on your website
- Use the photos on your social media profiles
- Use the photos in your email marketing
- Use the photos on sales and landing pages
- Use the photos in your email signature
- Use the photos in press releases
- Use the photos in any other marketing materials
Who Needs Branding Images?
- Influencers and influencer marketing
- Speakers
- Coaches
- Bloggers
- Online business owners
- Entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and all the other “-preneurs”
- Anyone who wants a beautiful, authentic online or social media presence
You are building a community… personal branding photography will show your authenticity, sell the experience, feel the emotion you are trying to arouse… then they read, they click, and then act.
Stop spending hours looking for photos to use or make on the spot, and instead get them from your personal YourStock photo vault.
How It Works
We have single packagesandyearly subscription packages that offer sessions that capture your story. These sessions will help to tell your personality, build relationships, and connect to your clients. Yearly subscriptions are a great way to have current images online and up to date
