Chris Thomas

Portrait photographs for your Social Media

Dr Chris Thomas from Milton Contact Ltd organised a unique photographic event at The Works Studio for Huntingdonshire Business Network Members this week.  http://www.meetup.com/Huntingdonshire-Business-Network/events/166720222/

Chris helps companies with their communication - in print, in image and in video and is one of my top business collaborators - and a really good friend.

We had over 20 members at the event and Chris was taking really high quality portraits for people to use on their Social Media profiles. He was "in the Zone"

Within the whole population of the world every face is absolutely unique and the first action of a newly born baby is to imprint its mothers face.  So face recognition is perhaps the most important sense that any human will ever have.  A human face cleverly photographed can portray trust, humour and friendliness which are essentials when people are assessing you on Social Media and deciding whether to connect (or not)

So if you are using any form of social media a really good portrait picture is essential - I wont connect with anyone who doesn't have a portrait picture. It is also important to have the same portrait picture on all your social media channels.

So my new portrait picture is now up on Linkedin, Twitter, Google+ and Meetup.  A few more lines and wrinkles than the last time I updated my portrait - but maybe that is a sign of maturity!!

What do you think ?

Written by Richard Wishart