Inkeros GrowThink Gala: A Luxury Portrait Experience Celebrating Employee Achievement
Discover how One Tree Studio created polished event portraits and a memorable portrait booth experience for the Inkeros GrowThink corporate awards gala at the Sheraton Centre Toronto.
GrowThink, sponsored by TELUS, is Inkeros’ annual awards gala celebrating top performers, recognizing employee achievements, and supporting charitable initiatives. For the past four years, One Tree Studio has had the privilege of partnering with Inkeros to provide a luxury portrait experience designed specifically for their guests.
Corporate celebrations like GrowThink are thoughtfully created to make employees feel valued and appreciated. Every detail, from the venue and entertainment to the food, atmosphere, and meaningful opportunities for connection, contributes to an unforgettable evening.
For GrowThink, Inkeros chose a luxury portrait experience rather than a traditional photo booth. This allowed guests to receive expertly crafted, high-quality portraits that matched the significance of the event and created a meaningful keepsake they could enjoy long after the gala ended.
A Premium Alternative to the Traditional Photo Booth
While traditional photo booths are designed primarily for entertainment, a luxury portrait experience transforms event photography into part of the celebration itself.
At GrowThink, employees stepped in front of a professionally lit portrait station where our experienced photographer captured each guest with careful direction, flattering lighting, and thoughtful composition. This attention to detail resulted in portraits that made every person feel recognized and celebrated.
Behind the scenes, our dedicated digitech worked in real time to individually edit each portrait as it was captured. Guests were able to receive polished digital images immediately, along with high-quality prints produced on-site as a tangible reminder of the evening.
The result was a professional portrait experience that captured the atmosphere of the evening and went beyond a simple photograph.
Four Years of Partnership with Inkeros
After four years of collaboration, One Tree Studio’s luxury portrait experience has become a valued part of the annual GrowThink awards gala. We are honoured to help Inkeros celebrate their employees by creating an elevated photography experience that reflects the importance of the occasion.
Recognition goes beyond handing out awards. It is about creating moments where people feel appreciated, celebrated, and connected. A thoughtfully designed portrait experience helps bring that vision to life while giving employees something meaningful to take home.
At One Tree Studio, we specialize in creating premium portrait experiences that help organizations celebrate their people and preserve the moments that matter most.
We would love the opportunity to bring the same level of care, professionalism, and creativity to your next employee appreciation event, awards gala, or corporate celebration.
Creating Meaningful Employee Recognition Through Photography
Employee appreciation events are about more than celebrating accomplishments; they are about making people feel valued. The luxury portrait experience became an extension of that message.
Instead of simply taking a quick snapshot, employees received a professional portrait they could proudly share with family, friends, or colleagues. Every guest walked away with a personalized reminder of a night dedicated to recognizing their hard work and contributions.
The experience reflected the same level of excellence and attention to detail that defined the GrowThink gala itself.
Extending the Value of the Event Beyond One Evening
The impact of professional event photography continues long after the celebration ends.
Instant digital delivery allowed GrowThink guests to share their portraits right away, while printed photographs created a physical keepsake they could hold onto for years. In addition, Inkeros received a collection of high-quality images that captured the people, energy, and atmosphere of the gala.
These photographs provide valuable content for internal communications, future event promotion, employer branding, and showcasing the company culture that makes Inkeros unique.
Professional portraits help tell the story of an organization; not just what it does, but the people who make it successful.
Headshot Photographer at Sheraton Centre Toronto: Air Canada Cargo
Air Canada Cargo used the opportunity a recent company-wide event to give everyone a great new headshot as a gift! People were thrilled with the results! Have a look…
It was a real pleasure serving the team at Air Canada Cargo! At their recent event at the Sheraton Centre Toronto, the planning team was looking for a gift to give their valuable employees. They chose to give the best gift: a new professional headshot!
Are you looking for something to give your employees that they’ll truly appreciate? While a gift box of chocolates tastes delicious…it’s gone in 60 seconds (at least at our studio). A new professional headshot will give your employees a wonderful update to their LinkedIn profile picture and your company intranet.
Having our Pro Headshot Booth at your next event is a convenient and affordable way to provide everyone with new headshots at a fraction of the cost of visiting our studio. Our team sets up flattering studio light right at your event. We make it easy for everyone to participate quickly with amazing results.
Have a look at some highlights from this event below, and contact us to reserve the date for your company, conference, or trade show.
Trade Show Headshots at the Sheraton Centre Toronto
Collect valuable leads, generate endless trade show traffic, and invest your trade show budget wisely with the Pro Headshot Booth experience! The best event marketing solution ever! See what our team did for Waters Corporation at the Sheraton Centre Toronto.
Our team of professional photographers makes YOUR company look amazing at conferences and trade shows in our Pro Headshot Booth!
We put your brand all over our headshot experience. Participants love it and YOU get all the praise! AND all the leads!
Our Pro Headshot Booth experience has been used by some of Canada's biggest companies AND many from the United States as well! Have a look below and see what we did for Waters Corporation at their latest trade show at Sheraton Centre Toronto.
Generate endless traffic to your booth.
Collect data that matters to you.
Attract hundreds of new leads.
Give a valuable gift!
Participants LOVE their new headshots!
Toronto Conference Headshots for LinkedIn: 5 Easy Steps to Providing Hundreds of Headshots
Instead of offering the usual pens, lanyards, and conference swag, why not offer attendees a highly valuable professional headshot - delivered INSTANTLY by email! Our photography team provides a full-service headshot experience at your conference, trade show, or business. We can photograph hundreds of people each day! Book your date today!
You've been to business conferences and trade shows and you've collected pens, lanyards, reusable bags, little gadgets, and flashlights that fill up your junk drawer. The same old gimmicks are being used over and over. It would be so nice to get something that is truly valuable and helpful to your career.
As a professional, having a good headshot for LinkedIn or your corporate profile is growing in importance. Your online profile is often the first place a potential employer or customer looks to see what you have to offer.
According to LinkedIn, your profile is 14x more likely to be viewed simply by having a profile picture! At your next conference, instead of giving out more things that will end up in the junk drawer, why not offer a valuable headshot to conference attendees? People will be lining up to receive this valuable gift!
At One Tree Studio, we are a team of professional photographers who specialize in providing studio-quality headshots to hundreds of people AND we deliver them instantly! We call this service our Pro Headshot Booth.
We have carefully choreographed our conference headshot service so that your guests move through the process easily and receive multiple, studio-quality headshots instantly to their phone or email. The feedback we have received from participants has been outstanding!
Here is what you can expect from One Tree Studio's Pro Headshot Booth experience:
Step One: Touch Ups
Our professional makeup and hair stylist will treat conference attendees to a quick touch up! This makes a huge difference in the final images and people love the pampering! Hair spray for stray hairs, lint rollers, de-shine powder for a matte skin finish, and blush and contour highlights for those who would like a little more colour. We're there to help everyone look their best!
If you'd like to offer people something extra special, our team can also provide more than touch ups - they can provide full hair and make-up services on location!
Step Two: Headshots
Our professional photographer spends 1-2 minutes with each person, posing them for a flattering image. We provide at least 3 images per person on multiple backdrops so that guests can choose the look that best suits them. In the video below, you can see that we've provided a black, dark grey, and a high-key white look to each participant. Custom colours are available. We've carefully chosen the most flattering lighting that looks fantastic! We shoot with Canon pro DSLR cameras and L-Series lenses for incredibly crisp, high-quality images.
Step Three: Edit and Export
Our image technician quickly edits the images, adjusting exposure and applying our custom One Tree look to each image. When everything looks just right, they send the images to the iPad kiosks and to the live slideshow of images. Our slideshow scrolls through the images we've taken at your event along with any sponsor advertising you'd like us to include, so that participants know exactly who they can thank for the headshot experience.
Step Four: Email Images
At our Image Sharing Stations, participants use our iPad kiosks to easily email or text all of their images and receive them immediately! Within minutes, people have their new headshots and can update their LinkedIn profile pictures!
Step Five: Happy People!
Check out the reviews left for us on Google from people that have experienced our Pro Headshot Booth services by CLICKING HERE.
Offer this valuable service at your next conference!
See us in action!
Conference Headshots at Sheraton Centre Toronto for Rogers | Toronto Headshot Photographer
We had the pleasure of serving up hundreds of headshots at the Rogers Enterprise Business Unit Sales Rally this month at the Sheraton Centre Toronto. Have a peak at our behind the scenes video and the results of this hardworking group of individuals!
One Tree Studio had the pleasure of serving the Rogers Enterprise Business Unit at their annual sales rally at the Sheraton Centre Toronto last week. Hundreds of conference attendees were treated to complimentary studio-quality headshots that were delivered instantly by email!
Our photography team planned a carefully choreographed headshot experience. From the hair and make up touch ups with our professional stylist, all the way to the instant image delivery at our kiosks; each attendee moved through the process with ease and we received fantastic feedback! (Please note: These images have not been retouched - just naturally great lighting!)
The final result was 909 headshot images delivered instantly to 268 people over the course of 6 hours of shooting. For this event, that's an average of 1m20sec per person, and 2.5 headshot images delivered per minute. Now that's fast! Here are some of the comments left for us on Google reviews from the conference:
“Our company Rogers was so thrilled with the feedback received having One Tree Studio at our other event that we invited them again for our recent EBU Sales Rally. And again they did an amazing job, great service, the team was extremely friendly and patient as we followed simple instructions to stand on the ‘x’ :) . Love the professional quality, beautiful results & quick service. Highly recommended for your next event. Thanks again One Tree Studio Team!!”
“One Tree Studio was excellent! They managed to do hundreds of head shots in a friendly manner; while producing high-end, professional-looking pictures! I would recommend them to any corporate event!”
Contact us today to book your conference headshot experience!
