Commercial photography for businesses in Suffolk

A commercial photograph is not decoration. It is a working part of your business, and it gets judged on whether it does its job.

An image that looks good and an image that works are not always the same thing. A photograph of your premises has to survive being cropped square for social media and stretched wide for a website banner. A team portrait has to sit next to eleven colleagues and not look like it was taken in a different decade. A product shot has to read on a phone screen at the size of a stamp.

So I ask where an image is going before I take it, not afterwards. I spent years in digital marketing and SEO before photography became the job, and it changed how I shoot. The photograph has a job. It should be built to do it.

I have photographed for Adnams in Southwold across a number of commissions: board portraits of the eight directors at The Swan, The Plough at Wangford, and their products out in the town for their social media.

Three jobs, three different problems. A board meeting with no time and a room throwing a colour cast. A pub that had to look warm and lived in rather than lit like a studio. A bottle on a coast road where the sun decides the morning before you have taken a frame. The full case study is worth reading if you want to know how I actually work rather than how I describe it.

Commercial work is priced on time and scope, not per image. The cost reflects what the job needs, whether that is a few hours on location or a full day across several sites. There are no packages to choose between, because no two commercial briefs are the same.

You tell me what the photography is for and where it is going, and I come back with a quote. Travel and any other expenses are agreed before the shoot, so nothing turns up unannounced on the invoice.

Full detail on the commercial photography rates page. Headshots and portraits are priced separately and follow a different process.

This is the part most businesses have never been told, and it can cost them.

Owning the building does not give you the right to photograph the people inside it and use the pictures. An identifiable person in a photograph is their personal data. Using it to promote your business needs a lawful basis, which in practice means consent and a signed release. And the legal responsibility sits with you, not with your photographer.

I raise it before a shoot rather than after. There is a full explanation here: photographing people in your business.

My studio is at Base Business Park, Rendlesham, near Woodbridge, on the former RAF Bentwaters airbase. Full lighting control, a changing room, and free parking on site.

I also carry a portable studio: a set of lights I can put up anywhere and get the same result I would get at Rendlesham. That matters more than it sounds. A meeting room I have never been in before, with a colour cast I did not choose, is not a place to start improvising with whatever light is coming through the windows. With my own lighting in the room, the building stops having an opinion.

You can see examples in my commercial photography portfolio, from premises and teams to products, food and PR work.

I work with businesses across Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex, including Ipswich, Woodbridge, Southwold, Felixstowe, Bury St Edmunds and Colchester.

Tell me what the photography is for, where the images will be used, and roughly when you need them. I will come back with an approach and a price based on the time and scope of the work.

Phone or WhatsApp: 07884 366342. Or use the contact form.