Based in New Milford, NJ (Bergen County) and serving couples across New Jersey, New York City, and the Hudson Valley, Alex Kaplan is known for creating a calm, guided, and joy-filled photography experience. Browse our latest posts for real wedding inspiration, expert tips, and behind-the-scenes moments that make your day unforgettable.

5 Reasons Executives in New Jersey Choose Environmental Portrait Photographers Over Studio Headshots
At a certain point in your career, a plain studio headshot stops telling the whole story. If your work is built on trust, authority, and presence, where you are photographed matters almost as much as how you are photographed. Most executives have had the neutral backdrop version done. It works. But when a prospective client, […]

Your LinkedIn headshot is often the first thing a potential client, employer, or referral partner sees, and first impressions on LinkedIn happen fast. For men over 50 in the NJ metro area, a current, confident photo does something a resume or bio can’t: it signals that you take your professional presence seriously. After nearly 30 years of […]

If you’re a male executive in New Jersey scheduling a headshot session, there’s a decision you’ll need to make before the camera ever clicks- and most men don’t realize how much it matters. Should you smile? Go serious? Something in between? After photographing executives across Northern New Jersey and New York City for nearly 30 […]

If you’ve been scrolling through LinkedIn lately, you might’ve noticed something: the best corporate headshots in New Jersey don’t look like they were shot in a studio anymore. They’re not standing in front of gray muslin or those mottled, dated backdrops you still see everywhere. They’re shot in real environments- offices, lobbies, conference rooms- places […]

You’ve spent months studying for the MCAT, writing personal statements, and carefully choosing where to apply. Then you reach the photo upload field. It feels like a small detail. It isn’t. Some medical schools request a photo for secondaries. Others list it as optional. Either way, your image becomes part of the file admissions committees […]

You can usually tell within the first five minutes whether someone’s comfortable in front of a camera. With Maximo Masefield, a young actor from Ridgewood, it took about thirty seconds. As a Northern NJ actor headshot photographer, I could see right away that he was a natural in front of the lens. Kid’s been working […]