Corporate photography at Corporate 500 Centre
Four buildings on Lake Cook Road, a minute's walk from the Metra platform, and one of the North Shore's standing headquarters addresses. Slots get built around the inbound trains instead of around a nine o'clock start.
Corporate 500 Centre is four office buildings on Lake Cook Road in Deerfield holding 697,673 square feet between them. The buildings at 500 and 510 run four stories; those at 520 and 540 run six. What sets the property apart on the North Shore is access. It stands one minute's walk from the Lake Cook Road Metra station and the bus station beside it, and only a few miles from both I-294 and I-94, so staff can reach it by train from the city and by car from anywhere in Lake or north Cook County. That commuter reach is part of why the address has drawn corporate headquarters rather than only branch offices.
The property has housed the corporate headquarters of Fortune Brands, and the North American headquarters of Beam Suntory and of Horizon Pharma. Those come from the property's leasing history rather than a statement about who is in the buildings today. Tenancy on Lake Cook Road turns over as companies grow and consolidate. If your team is in one of the four buildings now, the session happens inside your own suite.
The Metra platform a minute away changes how a day can be scheduled. Staff who commute by train arrive on a timetable, so appointment slots can be built around the inbound trains rather than assuming everyone is at their desk by nine. Four and six story buildings mean short elevator rides and a schedule that holds. A conference room of roughly ten feet by eight with a power outlet is enough, and we confirm loading, freight elevator times and the certificate of insurance with your office manager the week before the visit.
We photograph on site, in your own office. If your team is in this building, the notes below are what the day looks like. Nothing here is a claim to a past session in it, and no tenant named is a client unless it says so elsewhere on this site.






Sample work, photographed at other clients' offices rather than in this building. It is the standard a session here would be held to.
- Buildings
- Four, at 500, 510, 520 and 540 Lake Cook Road
- Size
- 697,673 square feet
- Heights
- Four stories at 500 and 510, six at 520 and 540
- Transit
- One minute's walk from the Lake Cook Road Metra station
- Highways
- A few miles from I-294 and I-94
- Has housed
- Fortune Brands HQ; Beam Suntory and Horizon Pharma North American HQs
Working in Corporate 500 Centre, Deerfield
The practical side of a shoot in this building, so the day runs on schedule.
Build around the trains
The Metra station is a minute away and a good share of the staff arrive on it. We can start slots after a specific inbound train so nobody is booked before they are in the building.
Which address
The four buildings run 500 through 540 and are not interchangeable. Give us the number and the floor so load in goes to the right lobby.
The space it takes
An eight by ten room with one wall outlet. Four and six story plates here usually have a conference room with an outside wall available for a day.
Leadership separately
Executive portraits usually want more time than a staff slot allows. We book those either side of the main block, in the same room and with the same look.
Short elevator rides
Nothing here is taller than six floors, so the queue problem that taller buildings create does not arise. Appointments run closer together as a result.
Film between the trains
The quiet stretch after the morning arrivals is the natural slot for an executive interview or a brand piece. It shares the portrait setup, and the visit hands back stills as well as footage.
What we make for Corporate 500 Centre, Deerfield teams
A headshot program is usually the first project. It is rarely the only one, and the same photographer handles the rest.
Corporate headshot programs
Whole teams photographed in one or two days, to one standard that holds as people join and leave.
See headshot programsExecutive portraits
Leadership portraits with the weight the business expects, for annual reports, press and the board page.
See executive portraitsBrand films and campaign video
Directed, filmed and edited by one person, from the first scope conversation through final delivery.
See brand film workRecruiting and employer brand
Culture photography and video made in the building people would actually work in, for careers pages and hiring campaigns.
See recruiting workCommercial and facility photography
A marketing team's image library for the year, so the next campaign does not start with a stock search.
See commercial workConference and event coverage
Sessions, keynotes, booths and headshot stations, photographed and filmed in the same visit.
See event coverageHeadshots are often one piece of a larger photo library. The same visit can also cover leadership portraits, recruiting content, workplace photography, video, or event coverage, and when one photographer handles all of it, the library looks like it came from one company.
See how the full engagement worksCorporate 500 Centre, Deerfield questions
What teams in this office park usually ask first.
Can you photograph teams in more than one of the four buildings?
Is there a way to include people who commute by train?
What does the setup need from the room?
When should we book?
Our other sites were photographed elsewhere. Can you match that?
Other buildings in this district
Your team is in Corporate 500 Centre, Deerfield?
Tell me the headcount, the floor and the dates. A proposal follows a short conversation, and questions are answered within one business day.