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The Art of Studio Photography: Brisbane Branding, Commercial, Lifestyle, Fitness & Portrait Photographers

The studio can be the most elegant of backdrops; beautifully crafted light, seamless backdrops, with you, the photographer, in full control. However, it can also be a very difficult space to work with if you don’t think outside the box and know your lighting….

In studio is where perfection is created. It’s the place where the photographer has complete control over everything from the content of the image to how it’s lit. It is where the photographer is no longer at the whim of nature and the sun (or lack of it) but can create any style of light required for an image from wonderful soft sunlight to the harsh contrast of the spotlight… as long as they know what they are doing.

To a photographer that hasn’t studied their lighting, a studio session can prove difficult producing unpleasant results of overlit, brightly glaring shots or maybe deep shadows and darkness.

While we love and thrive on the challenges of location shooting, using a mix of ambient and flash lighting and strange and beautiful locations, we love taking complete control over our photoshoots and working in the studio.

It’s here we can take the time to craft and create exactly the right kind of light for each photoshoot. It’s where you can think outside the box and use different backdrops and props to create your own interesting scene that perfectly compliment your subject rather than having to accept what nature gives you on location.

Across our portrait and commercial brands, we do a lot of photoshoots in studio for health, fitness, couples, commercial portraits, lifestyle imagery and products. We wanted to take you through some of the incredible results we can achieve with your imagery within the constraints of the studio.

Whether we’re photographing branding imagery or personal imagery, we love to create something unique! Coloured backgrounds, white or black backgrounds, smoke machines, water, props…. We love to make it fun for our clients and the images speak for themselves.

We have a number of Brisbane Studio Photography days ready to be booked! Book your session, a 30 minute express or 60 minute photoshoot for your commercial, corporate, lifestyle, fitness, boudoir or personal imagery. Book your session below!

See some examples of some different styles of studio photography below:

Brisbane Commercial Portraits & Branding Photography

Brisbane Fitness, Health & Boudoir Photography

Brisbane Product Photography

2020 BRISBANE STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY SESSIONS: FITNESS PHOTOGRAPHY, COMMERCIAL PORTRAITS, BRANDING IMAGERY, FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHY
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5 Tips to Nail your Corporate Headshots: Brisbane Commercial Photography

The Corporate Headshot… the one type of photograph that everyone needs, every company wants, but most don’t give enough thought to.

Headshots are one of the most important images for your brand or your company. Whether it is on your business card, your LinkedIn profile, your website, your social media, it will often be the first contact people will have when they are researching you and what ultimately lead to your potential customer forming an opinion about you or your service/business.

So what is the perfect corporate headshot?

The white background head and shoulders, the ‘in office’ shot backed by a mass of books or pictures or elements to do with your work… the dynamic thinking person pose staring off into the distance…. The list is endless.

 The bottom line is the perfect headshot is the one that reflects you and your business’ core values and brand accurately and creates a connection with your customers, clients or audience. If you communicate to multiple different audiences through different channels then you may actually need multiple headshots photographed in a variety of ways.

In order to help you plan, prepare and NAIL your commercial portrait we have listed 10 tips below:

  1.  DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT TO ‘VISUALLY SAY’ & WHAT BACKDROP TO CHOOSE:

    Sit down and think about what you want to say visually in your corporate image. If it’s a simple case of “here I am, I’m solid, professional and dependable” then it could well be that a straight-forward well posed and lit photograph with a clean and simple background is ideally suitable. But if you need to communicate more about your personality, the type of work you do, or a certain style or flair then think beyond the white background. 

    Here are some ideas for backgrounds below:

    • Office backdrops add weight and with the right props can instantly label you in your profession

    • Soft furnished interior backgrounds, like a home or cafe, can make you feel warm and friendly, almost homely

    • Interesting architectural angles and structures can give the impression of a structured mind a deep but disciplined thinker

    • Artwork, sculpted curved lines can give the equal impression of the thinker but with a more creative person

    • Outdoor nature backdrops can communicate a more open, fresh and vibrant personality

 2. GET YOUR PHOTOGRAPHER TO SHOOT TWO DIFFERENT LOOKS TO GIVE YOU OPTIONS:

Often, when we photograph corporate portraiture for clients we shoot a couple of locations or backgrounds to give them options. You will be surprised when you’re given the two options, you may like one over the other or even both. We invariably go to our client’s office and set up a micro studio and shoot a series of standard neutral background colour images, but then expand out to a second location and shoot more in-situ work or outdoor nature style that communicates more about the person, their work and working environment.

3. HAVE THE WHOLE TEAM PHOTOGRAPHED ON THE SAME DAY WITH TIME SLOTS:

To minimise disruptions in the office, we suggest coordinating a day with the whole team to have your commercial portraits. Ideally, our process is to spend a block of time shooting all staff who require headshots rather than piecemeal one or two every now and again. This allows us to be consistent across all images.

4. CHOOSE A COMPLEMENTING COLOUR PALETTE FOR YOUR CLOTHING:

Does your company have any key branding colours? Or you have a certain colour tone that contrasts your background. Putting a logo in your image can sometimes be considered a bit over the top but subtly bringing in a colour palette that is intrinsically linked with your brand can be very powerful.

Alternative to this, we highly suggest going with a neutral or coloured palette of complementing colours. We have given some ideas below.

5. GET A GOOD NIGHT’S REST & CONSIDER HAIR & MAKEUP:

We always advise our clients to get a good night’s sleep before the shoot, dress appropriately, stay clear of colours that might reflect onto and colour your skin. For the ladies, we highly recommend getting hair and makeup done if you have the budget as it makes you feel a million dollars and comes up beautifully on camera. It gives you such a professional edge and very clean look.

We hope these tips can help you when planning your next commercial portraits photoshoot. If you have any other questions or you’d like to book in your corporate portraits with the LP team, feel free to email us on info@lpcommercial.photography or visit our PEOPLE section of the website for example work across the commercial, corporate and lifestyle imagery.

Or visit our people section of the website HERE.

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Health, Wellness & Fitness Marketing Campaigns: Standing out in a Competitive Market with Customised Commercial Advertising & Marketing Imagery

Marketing Campaigns for Health, Wellness & Fitness Professionals: Standing out in a Competitive Market with Customised Commercial Advertising & Marketing Imagery

What’s the most attention grabbing thing when someone searches for you, your company or your product? 

IMAGERY

This is the first contact many people will have with you. Simply having well taken imagery is not enough. At a glance, those images must also communicate and uphold your brand identity and core values, whether that’s advertising campaign photography, social media content or printed marketing material. In a crowded marketplace, identifying photographers who can achieve both stunning images and effectively communicate brand values is critical.

Get it wrong, and the best case scenario is you will need to spend more money on more imagery, worst case scenario is the imagery could alienate your consumers and clientele and have a negative effect on your brand and bottom line. Too often, people buy photography purely on cost. Then find that the cheapest option only ends up costing far more in the long run. 

Brisbane Commercial & Corporate Photographers, LP Commercial Photography is different and our clients agree. We provide high quality & creative image led solutions through customised advertising & marketing photography. Over the past 4 years we’ve had the chance to work with some incredible health, fitness and wellness brands and individuals on unique marketing and advertising campaigns. Brands including: f45; AIPT (Australian Institute of Personal Trainers); and Bluerg as well as many nutritionist’s & health coaches and smaller fitness studios, gyms and clothing brands.

The reason why our clients love our work and the LP Commercial Photography experience, is because we create unique advertising campaign photography, social media content or printed marketing material aligning with the brands values, we make them feel at ease through our professional process and the imagery is delivered quickly and at a very professional standard.

We specialise in the health, wellness & fitness areas because we understand the industry. We know how to pose our clients and make them feel comfortable, we understand bodybuilding and fitness exercises and techniques and we are experts in lighting our subjects and clothing and that knowledge importantly allows both the client and models to feel at ease and enjoy the experience.

We are your trusted commercial and corporate photographers in Brisbane.

We get to know our clients like friends…. We deliver on client briefs everytime and then go that bit further further. We get really involved with the photoshoot, we help direct posing, we help style and we embody the brand like it’s our own.

Interested in working with us on your next marketing or advertising campaign? Send us an email at info@lpcommercial.photography or give Andy (0415 562 045) or Em (0423 082 039) call. We’d love to talk through how we can help you take your imagery to the next level. See more of our portfolio at www.lpcommercial.photography

See a behind the scenes vlog of our campaign photoshoot with f45 Ipswich below and examples of some of the health and fitness brands we have created imagery for on the right.

Andy & Em

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Sponsorship Success - Emirates Relationship - Campaign & People

Sponsorship Success - Emirates Relationship - Campaign & People

As part of an ongoing relationship with Emirate Airlines, Life Portrait's Andrew Jarvie would be on hand whenever the airline announced its continuing sponsorship of Collingwood AFL.