Expertise · 04 / Illustration, Photography & Video Production

Stock tells someone else’s story.We help you tell yours.

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.

On the discipline

Commercial photography that earns its place.

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 with professional lenses and purpose-built lighting, because “good enough” photography is indistinguishable from stock at scale. And we edit with a consistent grade, because coherence across a hundred images is what a brand actually looks like.

On self-recognition

Does this sound like you?

  1. Your food photography doesn’t look as good as your food actually is.
  2. You’re using stock images on your website, and customers can tell.
  3. You have a great product, space, or team, but you’ve never properly documented them.
  4. You need content for social, website, menus, and print — and you’re cobbling it together from phone photos.
  5. Competitors with worse products have better photos.

The best photography budget isn’t the biggest one. It’s one intentional session that produces images you still use three years later.

On method

How we work — four steps, one session.

Step 01

We spend time in your business before picking up a camera.

A good photographer arrives with a shot list, not a catalogue. We understand what’s worth photographing before we shoot a single frame — what tells your story, what cuts through, what your customers actually care to see.

Step 02

We light it right.

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.

Step 03

We shoot for every surface.

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.

Step 04

We grade with a consistent look.

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.

On what you receive

Four deliverables. Every surface covered.

01

Edited Library

Organised by use case — web, social, print, paid. Ready to deploy.

02

Short-Form Video

Reels, stories, and paid-ad cuts from the same day’s shoot.

03

Raw Files, Retained

Full-resolution originals held indefinitely for future edits.

04

Lighting & Grade Guide

So your team can continue the look in-house if needed.

A case in point · Sichuan House, Glasgow

From phone photography to a visual identity in pictures.

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.

Contact sheet · Selected frames
01First wok of the morning — oil hitting hot steel50mm · f/1.8 · 1/200s · ISO 400
02Mapo tofu, overhead85mm · f/2.8
03Szechuan pepper, still life100mm · f/4
04Pass, dinner service35mm · f/2
05Chef, portrait50mm · f/1.8
06Dining room at dusk, window seat24mm · f/4 · 1/60s
07Dumpling service, plating50mm · f/2
08Late service, the quiet35mm · f/1.4
Lighting diagram · Three-point setup
KeyGodox ML100Bi, 45° from subject, above eye levelShapes the food’s topography
FillDiffused bounce at –2 stops, subject-rightSoftens shadows without flattening
RimGodox ML100R, slightly below and behindSeparates the plate from the background
Shot list · One session, every surface
01

Hero dishes

Menu flagships, three-quarter angle, shallow depth
Web · Menu · Print
02

Overheads

Flat-lay compositions for Instagram grid and paid ads
IG · Ads
03

Pass motion

Short clips of plating, steaming, saucing — for reels
Reels · TikTok
04

Portraits

The team. Environmental, documentary, unposed
About · Press
05

Room

The dining room at dusk, empty and occupied
Homepage · Bookings
Video views, Month 1×2From launching professional video
Image library120+Edited frames, one session
Still in use2 yearsAcross web, print, social

The best photography budget isn’t the biggest one. It’s one intentional session producing images you still use three years later.

Also
Nanakusa, Glasgow

Photography as part of the rebrand, not an afterthought.

Nanakusa’s photography wasn’t commissioned separately — it was part of the rebrand from the start. The imagery told international students and local regulars the same story: this is authentic Japanese cooking, taken seriously. Daily covers grew from 35 to 75. Photography was the first thing most customers ever saw of the restaurant.

Read the full Nanakusa story →
An invitation

Ready to own the images of your own business?

The first conversation is free, fifteen minutes, and has no prep. Tell us what you’d like to be seen — we’ll tell you honestly whether a proper shoot is what you need, or whether a lighting fix would do.

Book a free 15-minute chatNo pitch. No prep. Just a conversation about what you’re building.