Press Kit
Everything on this page may be used freely in coverage of Headshot Station. Questions or interview requests: [email protected]
The one-liner
Boilerplate
Short: Headshot Station is a platform for photographers who run branded headshot booths at live events — conferences, corporate offsites, trade shows. It handles the whole flow: QR signup, a live shooting queue, tethered auto-upload from Capture One, instant branded gallery delivery to every attendee, a sponsor lead portal, and in-gallery retouch sales paid directly to the photographer's own Square account. Founded by Dallas event photographer Erick Johnson, who built it to run his own booth business. It's $99/month with a free rehearsal mode, at headshotstation.app.
Long: Headshot Station began as one photographer's fix for the chaos of shooting corporate headshots at scale: hundreds of attendees at an event, followed by nights of manual delivery and retouch orders slipping through the cracks. Dallas event and headshot photographer Erick Johnson built software to run his own booth end to end — attendees scan a QR code to join a live queue, every tethered shot routes to the right person automatically, and each attendee receives a branded gallery by email moments after stepping away from the camera. Sponsors get a branded portal with a clean lead list; attendees can order retouches and downloads in the gallery, paid straight to the photographer's Square account — the platform never touches the money. After running his own events on it, Johnson opened it up as a product in 2026. Photographers can rehearse the entire workflow free (no card, no time limit) and go live for $99/month when they take it to a real event, backed by a first-event guarantee.
Fast facts
| Product | Headshot Station — headshotstation.app |
| Founder | Erick Johnson, event & headshot photographer (Erick Johnson Photography) |
| Headquarters | Dallas, Texas |
| Launched | July 2026 |
| Pricing | Free rehearsal mode (full product, no card, capped test shoots) · $99/month to go live · cancel anytime · first event covered by a money-back guarantee |
| Payments | Attendee retouch/download sales route to the photographer's own Square account; the platform takes no cut of gallery sales |
| Built for | Conference headshot booths, corporate event teams, trade-show activations, high-volume portrait days |
| Origin | Built by the founder to run his own Dallas event-headshot business before opening to other photographers |
The founder story
Erick Johnson is a working event and headshot photographer in Dallas. Frustrated by the manual grind that followed every high-volume headshot booth — sorting hundreds of files by hand, emailing galleries one by one, chasing retouch payments — he taught himself to build the software he wished existed. Headshot Station ran his own conference booths first: real events, real sponsors, real lines of attendees. The product photographers use today is the same system, hardened on live event floors, opened up so any photographer can run a branded headshot operation of their own.
Erick shoots Nikon, tethers through Capture One, and still works event floors in DFW — which is where most product decisions come from.
Logos
The Station mark — a dot grid with one live dot. Use on dark or light backgrounds; don't recolor or rearrange the dots.
Product images
All images below are from a real event — Texas Autopsy Services' conference booth in Sugar Land, TX (June 2026), shot and delivered through Headshot Station. Used with the operator's permission; free to use in coverage.
The live wall display at the booth — sponsor branding, scan-to-sign-up QR, and live event stats (75 photographed, 585 headshots delivered).
An attendee's branded gallery — delivered by email moments after stepping away from the camera. Sponsor branding, one-tap downloads, optional retouch orders.
The signup form attendees reach by scanning the booth QR — sponsor-branded, phone-first, straight into the live shooting queue.
The sponsor's portal — every attendee, every photo, and a clean leads list. The deliverable that gets booths funded.
headshotstation.app — the product site.
Higher-resolution versions, operator-dashboard captures, and behind-the-scenes photography from live DFW booths available on request.
Try it yourself
Reviewers don't need to request access: sign up free and the full product runs in rehearsal mode — no card, no clock, capped only by test volume. Go from zero to a working branded booth (QR signup → live queue → instant gallery delivery) in about ten minutes.
Contact
Erick Johnson · [email protected] · Dallas, TX
Interviews, demos, review access, or behind-the-scenes coverage from a live corporate booth — all welcome.