The images your business uses are not illustrations of what you do. They are what most customers ever see. Get them right, or let a stranger’s face stand in for yours.
Commercial photography, video and illustration for businesses whose products, spaces, people and processes are what customers actually come for. The point is not to decorate your marketing. The point is to document what makes your business worth choosing, and to do it with enough craft that the images earn their place on a website, a menu, an Instagram grid and a printed page without needing a caption to explain themselves.
We shoot in-house, with professional lenses and purpose-built lighting, because “good enough” photography is indistinguishable from stock at scale. Most agencies outsource this or point you at stock. We don’t. And we edit with a consistent grade, because coherence across a hundred images is what a brand actually looks like.
The best photography budget isn’t the biggest one. It’s one intentional session that produces images you still use years later.
A good photographer arrives with a shot list, not a catalogue. We work out what’s worth photographing before we shoot a single frame. What tells your story, what cuts through, what your customers actually care to see.
Natural light is a lovely ideal. Professional light is a working tool. Every session uses purpose-built lighting, key, fill and rim, to shape how the product, space or person actually reads on screen and in print.
A single session produces hero images for the website, verticals for Instagram reels and stories, horizontals for Facebook and press, and print-resolution files for menus and signage. We compose with every surface in mind.
A hundred well-shot images still fail if the colour grade drifts across the set. We build a grade for your brand, the warmth, the contrast, the shadow colour, so every future image can match it whether we shoot it or your team does.
Organised by use case. Web, social, print, paid. Ready to deploy.
Reels, stories and paid-ad cuts from the same day’s shoot.
Full-resolution originals held indefinitely for future edits.
So your team can continue the look in-house if needed.
An edited library organised by use, plus the full-resolution originals to keep.
Your own marketing, on every channel. No per-use licensing, no surprise fees later.
Print-resolution files composed for the page, not cropped down from a square.
Verticals and reels shot in the same session, so the grid matches the menu.
Sichuan House’s food was being photographed on phones, under fluorescent restaurant lights, for Instagram. The food looked washed out. The colours were wrong. The photography was pulling the brand down. We built a lighting and shooting plan for the kitchen and dining room, commissioned a full set of hero images covering every menu category, and produced short-form video for social.
The best photography budget isn’t the biggest one. It’s one intentional session producing images you still use years later.
Nanakusa’s photography wasn’t commissioned separately. It was part of the rebrand from the start. The moody, red-velvet editorial style, unusual for Glasgow, told international students and local regulars the same story. This is authentic Japanese cooking, taken seriously. The restaurant got busier after the rebrand, and the photography did real work in telling people why. It was the first thing most customers ever saw of the restaurant.
Read the full Nanakusa story →We don’t publish a price list. Tell us what you’d like to be seen, and we’ll tell you honestly whether a proper shoot is what you need or whether a lighting fix would do. Then we scope it and quote in writing.