Headshot photographer in Bilbao

Bilbao’s offices come in two kinds, and plenty of companies sit in both. Along Gran Vía and through the Ensanche they are older stone buildings with tall windows and deep rooms; down by the river in Abandoibarra, where the Iberdrola tower went up in 2012, they are glass from floor to ceiling. The daylight in those two rooms is not the same light, and a portrait made beside one window will not match a portrait made beside the other. So the set travels with us: one backdrop, the same lamps at the same distances, put up in whichever room is quietest, with the windows reduced to fill. That is how a team spread over two addresses, or hired over two years, ends up on one page looking like a single firm. The cloud does its part by keeping that fill almost constant from morning to evening.

When to book in Bilbao

The clock matters less than the calendar. Under Bilbao’s cloud the window fill barely moves between morning and afternoon, so the session can go wherever your diaries allow; leave the first half hour of the day free, though, because people arriving through sirimiri need a few minutes for coats, collars and hair. Pick a day the whole team is actually in, which for hybrid teams is worth checking before the date is fixed. August is the hard month: many offices thin out, and the Aste Nagusia week fills the city. September and the weeks after Easter are when most companies refresh their websites, so book those early. A new hire later in the year is photographed on the same set, from the same notes.