STUDIO BLANC

Where could we take your portraits?

Your favorite neighborhood. A beautiful outdoor space. Your workplace. A cute cafe. A hotel. Or maybe somewhere you haven’t considered: your own home and garden.

Your surroundings can become part of the story, giving us beautiful variety without needing a traditional studio setting.

These portraits were photographed at a private residence in Atherton, using the architecture, gardens and natural light to create a collection that feels personal and polished.

Sometimes, the perfect location is already yours.

A family session doesn’t have to mean a gallery of everyone looking at the camera.

Some images are intentionally composed.
Some happen in between.

There are portraits of the whole family, individual moments with mom and dad, a little running around, bubbles, being tossed in the air, and time spent with the family dog.

That variety is part of what makes a family gallery feel like your family rather than a collection of perfectly arranged poses.

My approach is a balance of direction and room to be yourselves. I’ll guide you when I see an opportunity for a beautiful portrait, and then I’ll let things unfold when the real expressions and interactions are better.

The result is a gallery that has both the photographs you came for and the photographs you couldn’t have planned.

Family photography in the Bay Area | Danville · San Ramon · Blackhawk · East Bay

Welcome to Studio Blanc.

If we haven’t officially met yet, I’m Klodjana Dervishi — the photographer and creative behind Studio Blanc, a Bay Area photography studio specializing in portraits, professional headshots, personal branding, family and motherhood, fine art portraits, and commercial photography.

With 20+ years behind the camera, my approach is clean, intentional, and highly personalized. Whether you’re updating your professional image, building a brand, documenting your family, or creating something more artistic, the goal is always the same: images that look like you, only exceptionally well done.

Studio Blanc serves clients throughout the Bay Area, including Danville, San Ramon, Walnut Creek, the Tri-Valley, and beyond — in studio, on location, or in your own environment.

This page is where I’ll be sharing recent work, behind-the-scenes, photography tips, and a closer look at what goes into creating images with intention.

If you’re new here, start by following along. There’s plenty more to see.

One branding session. Many different sides of the same brand.

Your branding photos shouldn’t all look like variations of the same headshot.

For this session with an aesthetic nurse and medspa owner, we created a range of images that could work across different parts of her business—from polished portraits to more relaxed, approachable images, along with photographs made inside her place of business.

Because her brand needs to communicate expertise, trust, professionalism and personality, we intentionally changed the:

→ wardrobe
→ lighting
→ location
→ posing
→ composition
→ expression
→ overall mood

The result is a gallery that gives her something useful to pull from for her website, social media, LinkedIn, marketing materials, press features and more.

That’s what I want from a branding session: not just beautiful photographs, but a versatile visual library that continues to work for you long after the session.

If you’re a professional or business owner who needs images that feel like your brand—not a generic collection of headshots, let’s talk.

Branding photography | Studio Blanc

Professional headshots don’t have to follow a formula. The lighting and direction are professionally crafted, but the mood is shaped around you—your profession, personality, audience, and the way you want to be perceived.