Photograph it where it was installed.
Millwork, casework, shade structures, playground equipment, fixtures and furniture — photographed on site, in context, at the standard your catalog and trade collateral deserve.
Studio sells the object. Installation sells the outcome.
A buyer looking at a shade structure on white is evaluating a product. A buyer looking at the same structure over a real playground, in real light, is imagining it on their site — and that is a shorter path to a purchase order.
What comes with it
- Wide context establishing scale and setting
- Detail frames showing material, joinery and finish
- Drone where the installation reads better from above
- Optional measured capture of the same install, from the same visit
From $1,200 per half day. Multi-location programs quoted as a package.
Can we use these in national campaigns?
Yes — tell us the intended use at scoping so licensing is priced correctly up front rather than argued about later.
What if the site is not finished?
Tell us before we schedule. Some of it we solve with angle and timing, some is a retouch line, and some means waiting two weeks for a result you can actually use.
Can you shoot installs in other states?
Yes. Batch several into one trip and the cost per location drops substantially.
A reference install that a committee can tour
If you manufacture something that gets installed in buildings — casework, shade structures, playground equipment, seating, lockers, fixtures, specialty glazing — your strongest sales asset is a completed installation somebody else already paid for. The problem is that it is in a building three states away, owned by a customer who did not sign up to host tours.
A measured capture solves that. A procurement committee walks the installation at their own desk, at their own pace, with real dimensions attached, without travel, without scheduling, and without asking your existing customer for a favor. That asset works for years, and it works while you are asleep.
What the shot list actually needs
- Wide establishing frames that put the product in its architectural context, because the buyer is imagining it in their building, not yours.
- Scale reference — the product against a door, a ceiling, a person's height of sightline. Product-in-isolation photography loses this entirely and it is the first question a specifier asks.
- Detail frames of the junctions — the edge, the mount, the reveal, the transition to the adjacent finish. This is where a specifier decides whether your work is good, and it is what catalog photography almost never shows.
- The measured walkthrough, which lets a specifier take a dimension off the install rather than trusting a caption.
The permission question, which nobody warns you about
You manufactured the product. You do not own the building it is installed in, and in most cases you do not control access to it. Before anything is scheduled we need written permission from whoever controls the premises — the owner, the tenant, or the facility. We will help you frame that request, but we will not capture a building without it, and a vendor who is relaxed about this is creating a problem that lands on you rather than on them.
Where the install is in a school, a healthcare facility or a secured site, expect a lead time for approvals. Build that into your schedule rather than discovering it the week of.
Licensing, stated plainly
Standard delivery gives you full commercial rights for your own marketing, website, catalogs, trade show material and bids — without limit and without a renewal. The 30% licensing uplift applies only when images will be handed onward to a third party for their marketing: a dealer network, an architect's portfolio, a publication. If you are the one using them, the base price is the price.
What does one installation cost?
A half-day covering one installation with 8–10 finished images is $1,200. A full day at 12–15 images is $2,600. Adding the measured capture and walkthrough to the same visit is priced off the building's floor area and is usually the cheapest part of the trip.
Can you shoot multiple installs in one trip?
Yes, and that is where this gets efficient. Travel is charged once for the trip rather than per site, and three or more locations trigger the published volume discount.
Do you retouch?
Yes — color, exposure, verticals, distraction removal. What we do not do is composite your product into a building it was never installed in. If the image is going in front of specifiers, it needs to be a photograph of a real installation.
Phoenix metro. Anywhere within 35 miles of Gilbert — Phoenix, Mesa, Chandler, Scottsdale, Tempe, Glendale, Peoria, Queen Creek and the rest of the Valley — carries no mobilization charge. Outside that, travel is quoted from the published zone table, and we work nationally.