Headshot & Branding Photography in Santa Barbara

Co-create your professional business headshots or branding photos with a Santa Barbara-based photographer with a Master’s degree and 25 years of working experience in branding, marketing and public relations. For truly aligned and authentic commercial photography and business headshots that advance your mission and serves your business branding goals, consider our on location and portrait studio team as your personal and professional glam squad.  See our small business brand and influencer brand case studies here.  We incorporate detailed coaching and discovery work (including moodboards, mockups, palettes and style guides) on the front end of your branding collection so that the actual day of creating photos becomes a celebration of all you want to bring to the marketplace and beyond.  With the use of AI photo editing tools we are able to mix stills and motion and also composite authentic images with artificially composited elements in novel ways.

Doug Ellis Photography has been in Santa Barbara since 2013 and specializes in headshots and couples engagement and family photos and senior pictures. Doug’s commercial and editorial photography has appeared in numerous publications including Spirituality & Health, Success, National Geographic, Yoga Journal, and the Today Show. 

To learn more about the collaborative branding photography process, see our process page.