About Ryan Dunbar

21 years behind the camera.
11 years in headshots.
Two countries. One system.

I'm a working headshot photographer based in Austin, Texas. I built Corporate Headshot Mastery because the business side of this work is hard — and most of what's out there to help photographers is either too generic or too theoretical to be useful.

Ryan Dunbar — Corporate Headshot Mastery
21 yrs
Professional photographer
11 yrs
Headshot specialist
$300K
Peak annual revenue, Canada
$150K
On track, Austin year one
2
Studios built from scratch
The background

I didn't start with a course. I started with a camera and figured it out the hard way.

I started shooting professionally in Winnipeg in 2005. For the first decade it was the full range — weddings, portraits, commercial work. Headshots came into focus in 2015 and quickly became the primary business. Corporate clients, individual professionals, convention work. The communication systems, pricing models, and CRM workflows all got built out during those years because they had to be.

By 2019 the studio was doing $300K USD annually at its peak. Everything documented, everything running on the system that's now inside the Playbook.

Then I moved to Austin in May 2025. New country, new market, zero existing clients. Same system, new city. ATX Headshots launched from scratch and is currently on track for $150K in year one — the business is being built in real time, using exactly the tools and workflows inside CHM.

That is the whole point of Corporate Headshot Mastery. The system isn't theoretical. It's running right now, in a market I didn't know, producing results I can point to. I packaged it up because other photographers kept asking how I did it — and the honest answer was that it's all documented anyway.

2005
Started shooting professionally

Winnipeg, Manitoba. Weddings, portraits, commercial. The foundation of 21 years of full-time photography.

2015
First headshot sessions

Headshots become the focus. Client communication systems, pricing models, and CRM workflows begin taking shape.

2015–2019
204 Photography — building at scale

Individual clients, corporate teams, conventions. The full system gets built, tested, and refined across hundreds of sessions.

2019
$300K peak revenue

The system at full capacity. Everything documented, everything automated.

2023
Corporate Headshot Mastery launched

Packaged the complete system — emails, workflows, pricing, SEO — for other photographers.

May 2024
Move to Austin — zero clients

New country, new market. Same system imported directly into a city I didn't know.

2024–2026
ATX Headshots — on track for $150K year one

The stress test, still running. The system is doing what it's supposed to do.

What I actually do

I still shoot. That's the whole point.

Corporate Headshot Mastery is built on current, active experience — not on what worked five years ago. ATX Headshots is running right now in Austin, booking sessions every week. The products I sell reflect what I'm actually doing today.

ATX Headshots
Working studio, Austin TX

Individual and corporate group headshot sessions, in-studio and on-location. Launched from zero in May 2024, currently on track for $150K in year one — running entirely on the system inside the Playbook.

Corporate Headshot Mastery
Education for photographers

The email sequences, pricing tools, SEO playbook, and course content all come directly from running ATX Headshots. Nothing is theoretical. If it's in the product, it's running in my studio right now.

1-on-1 Coaching
Direct work with photographers

I work directly with photographers who want to build or grow a headshot business — strategy, systems, market positioning. Available as hourly sessions or a monthly retainer. Contact to enquire.

21 years of figuring this out
so you don't have to.

Everything in the CHM product line comes directly from running a real headshot business at volume — in two countries, across two studios, over two decades. The system is documented. It's ready. All you have to do is run it.