Women in Real Estate: The Women of Briggs Freeman in Dallas
Getting eleven successful women into the same room at the same time is harder than any lighting setup. Getting them to look like a team while still looking like themselves is the actual job.
This group of agents from Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International Realty came together for the Women in Real Estate issue of Local Profile, the magazine covering Collin County, and we had one window to make an editorial group portrait plus individual headshots for every single one of them.
One Group Portrait, Eleven Women, One Window of Time
We shot in a Frisco home that did half the work for us. A curved white plaster wall, a walnut slat ceiling, a sculptural wood pendant, and a wall of glass looking straight out into the trees. Everyone in black, so nothing competes and the architecture carries all the color.
The trick with a group this size is staggering the heights and giving people something to do. Some standing, some seated, some perched on the arm of the sofa. It reads as intentional instead of a lineup, and every face stays visible and lit the same way.
Shooting a group portrait for a magazine feature is its own skill. You are composing for a crop you do not control yet, making sure the frame works wide enough for a spread and tight enough for a single page, and doing all of it while eleven busy women check their phones between frames.
About the House: Tapestry by Total Environment Homes in Frisco
We shot at Tapestry in Frisco, the community built by Total Environment Homes, and it is unlike anything else going up in the Dallas–Fort Worth suburbs right now.
Total Environment designs custom homes around being close to nature rather than around a floor plan catalog. The roofs at Tapestry are planted, seeded with native Blackland prairie grasses and roughly sixty plant species indigenous to this part of Frisco, so from above the neighborhood reads as green instead of a field of shingles. The community is laid out around four creeks and three ponds.
Inside, you feel the same philosophy. Warm natural materials instead of cold minimalism, curved plaster, walnut, courtyards and French doors that pull the garden indoors, and glass placed so that nearly every room has something living in the view. It is a genuinely beautiful house to photograph, which is exactly why we shot here.
Matching Headshots in the Same Session
Every agent also walked away with her own portrait, all shot in the same corner with the same light so the whole set holds together on a website, a team page, a listing sheet, or a magazine sidebar.
That consistency is the entire point. When headshots come from different photographers in different years, a brokerage page looks like a collage. When they come from one session, it looks like a firm.
Headshots and Team Photography for Real Estate in Dallas
I'm Whitney, a brand and commercial photographer based in Dallas and Austin, Texas, and I photograph a lot of people who sell things for a living. Real estate agents, brokerages, med spas, builders, restaurants, and founders who need to look credible before they ever say a word.
If your team needs headshots that finally match, a group portrait for a publication feature, or brand imagery you can use across listings, social, and print, get in touch. I photograph teams of one and teams of thirty.
And congratulations to these women. Being recognized for being very good at what you do is worth a photo.
