Love Story Atelier Handmade Jewellery: Timeless Product Photography

At LP Commercial Photography, we're more than just photographers; we're storytellers, dedicated to capturing your product as you envision it. In a recent collaboration with Love Story Atelier, an Australian handmade bridal jewellery line, we embarked on a journey to document their products from inception to the final exquisite pieces nestled in their elegant packaging. This case study sheds light on the meticulous craftsmanship and dedication behind each unique creation.

Crafting the Narrative

In our partnership with Love Story, we set out to tell the complete story behind their handmade jewellery. It's not just about the final product; it's about the journey that transforms raw materials into wearable art. We meticulously documented every step, from the initial crafting stages to the final product and its elegant packaging.

Capturing Craftsmanship

Our lens became a silent observer in the workshop, capturing the skillful hands that painstakingly molded and shaped each piece of jewellery. We focused on the intricate details—the delicate twists and turns, the precision of the settings, and the careful selection of gemstones—all of which contribute to the uniqueness of Love Story's creations.

The Exquisite Final Act

But the story didn't end there. We wanted to present these exquisite creations in a way that would resonate with potential customers. Our photographs showcased the jewellery in all its glory, emphasizing its elegance and charm. We aimed to make each piece come to life through our visuals, inviting customers to connect with the essence of these unique creations.

A Tangible Connection

Our commitment to telling the Love Story behind handmade jewellery isn't just about aesthetics; it's about creating a tangible connection. We believe that when customers understand the craftsmanship and dedication that goes into each piece, it becomes more than just jewellery—it becomes a unique story they can wear.

At LP Commercial Photography, we're passionate about transforming your vision into visual narratives that engage and captivate. We're not just capturing products; we're telling stories. Contact us today, and let's embark on a journey to showcase your brand's unique narrative.

The product

A word from the owner:

‘Love Story’ is an Australian based atelier, dedicated to creating exquisite, hand-made jewellery to complement the style and grace of the modern-day woman.

Showcasing the timeless elegance of pearls, our designs effortlessly radiate style and simplicity.

Each piece is made to last, serving as a keepsake that captures the essence of love and celebration.

Whether you envision a simple drop style or a more intricate, cascading design, our collection offers a range of options to complement your personal style.

Alternatively, our bespoke service allows you to collaborate with a designer to create a tangible expression of your love story’

The Craftsmanship

In today's world of consumerism and the often ambiguous origins of products, the power of visual representations to convey the dedication, hard work, and passion invested in the creation process cannot be underestimated. Whether its eco-sourced pearls and gold, or hand-set fittings, customers are yearning for authenticity and a deeper connection to the products they purchase more than ever before.

We provide clients with a transparent and genuine look into the creation process. Our goal is not just to deliver a product but to help our clients offer an experience—an experience that tells their unique story of craftsmanship and individuality.

The Photo Session

Realise your vision, your way.

Creative autonomy from all parties has a transformative impact on product photography. This approach allows for the product to be portrayed in a manner that aligns perfectly with the brand's identity and the photographer's artistic vision.

The result is a product showcase that not only highlights its features but also tells a captivating visual story, engaging the audience on a deeper level and leaving a lasting impression.

The Results

Whatever your product, passion or business, here at LP Commercial we taylor our service to present the best side of your product in the best way.

Product Photography brought ALIVE with Children: Cowrie & Conch Children's Furniture

Product Photography brought ALIVE with Children: Cowrie & Conch Children’s Furniture

When a client comes to us with a brief of capturing their products in a fun and expressive way with children, we JUMP with excitement! After many years of being commercial photographers and family photographers, you can bet you, we are the experts in this field haha!

Kylie from Cowrie & Conch was looking for a fun location that suited her products, we had the perfect location for her, Bilinga Beach Abode in the Gold Coast. Next was timing the day….

Co-ordinating kids, parents, setting up the products, some lifestyle portraits of Kylie and her little one and then packdown, and we achieved all of this in 2 hours! Our TIP, don’t force children to do things, you work with them, let them play, encourage them to play and interact with the products, sit back with a long lens and don’t intimidate them. You can see the results for yourself below….

What an amazing product photography photoshoot! Imagery for social media, website and marketing for months!

Em

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Life Portraits were given the brief to make the shoot ‘fun and allow the kids to be their organic selves’. Emily, one of the business owners, who is an absolute ‘child whisper’ brought this shoot to life - she gave it a kind of magic that is hard to put your finger on. I receive countless compliments and praise for these images regularly. They adorn my website and these memories that have been captured are little gems of sheer brilliance.”
— Kylie Hackett, Cowrie & Conch

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Behind the Scenes on a Lifestyle Product Photoshoot: Strength Sanctuary Clothing Range 📷

Come behind the scenes with business partner, Emily, on a lifestyle product photoshoot working with the team at Strength Sanctuary for the launch of Sanc Wear, their new fitness clothing range.

BRIEF: Strength Sanctuary wanted to capture their new fitness range for their gym, Sanc Wear, as a clothing range this is fun, edgy, you can wear as everyday clothing as well as at the gym. They wanted to capture the full colour range and details of the products across a range of models, male and female.

PHOTOSHOOT: We created a huge variety of imagery over a 2 hour period, capturing each coloured piece as a stand alone in many different poses as well as some more creative looks with lighting and cars, and in the gym. See our variety and behind the scenes video below.

“Emily was great, she made everyone feel so natural and calm”

Oran - Owner

Ascent Footwear Social Photography Campaign: Brisbane Product Photography

Ascent Footwear Social Photography Campaign: Brisbane Product Photography

Come behind the scenes on a recent campaign photoshoot.

The Brief:

To source talent and locations to create a range of images for use in advertising, point of sale and social media exploitation for the Ascent footwear range of sandals.

The Client:

Ascent Footwear is a proven, innovative, Australian born and bred brand focused on providing footwear with integrity. Ascent Footwear also take a special interest in developing footwear specifically for the wellbeing of growing families, whether for school, work, or leisure. The Ascent Groove sandal range is designed to offer comfort and support.





Rebranding a Nursery with Commercial Lifestyle Imagery & Videography: The Grow Centre, Brisbane

Rebranding a Nursery with Commercial Lifestyle Imagery & Videography: The Grow Centre, Brisbane

Behind The Scenes On A Commercial Lifestyle Photoshoot for Nursery The Grow Centre where we created a range of product and lifestyle imagery as well as drone videos for their website.

With the changes that Covid 19 has brought to the way we all do business we've been helping many companies with their transition to new ways to sell and communicate with their existing customers and open up new markets. One such company is The Grow Centre in Brisbane.

BRIEF:

Traditionally The Grow Centre supplied plants commercially to architects, building firms for large installations and shopping centres, the onset of Covid 19 made them decide to investigate new market places selling direct to consumers. We were contacted to shoot a variety of new product and lifestyle images as well as video footage and drone for their new website and social media platforms. Come behind the scenes to find out a little more of what we did and how we did it.

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Dare2tri Sports Wear Products - Brisbane Product Photography

Dare2tri Sports Wear Products - Brisbane Product Photography

Triathlon is one of the most challenging sports out there with athletes specialising in multi disciplines including one of the most exhausting.... the ocean swim.

As it turns out its one of the most gruelling sports we've been involved in capturing as well. Brisbane-based sportswear company Dare2Tri commissioned us to photograph a range of images for website exploitation and social media marketing. 

After working through the brief with them we agreed that a combination of shots showing the wetsuits and clothing in all their glory in static posed shots would be required but so would a range of powerful action shots showing the clothing and athletes putting themselves to the test against the elements. 

Breaking out the dive housings Andy plunged into the ocean alongside internationally famed Tri-athelete and former Australian team member Flic Abraham to catch all the action.

Product Photography - Thinking beyond the box: Brisbane Commercial Photography

Product Photography - Thinking beyond the box: Brisbane Commercial Photography

The humble product photograph gets a bad rap sometimes. Big brands with matching budgets do some amazing work with water splashes, beautiful day long studio sessions for a single image or even hours placing individual sesame seeds on a burger bun by a team of food designers to ensure the most delicious looking food product that simply can’t be replicated in the real restaurant.

But many smaller and medium sized businesses don’t feel they have the budget for such things and instead think along the lines of the pure white background studio style catalogue product shot for ease and fast turn around.

And while that work also has a massive place in this word of internet shopping and online shop pages on a website, it’s well worth taking some time to think about what can be achieved with just a few drops of creativity, a little time and bringing on board the right people.

Lifestyle product shots are a classic way of pushing slightly out of the box to not only show the item itself but also build an emotional context around it and pushing the aspirational aspects of the product or highlighting its key points of difference in its market.

Emily recently undertook a shoot for a small local ‘one-lady band’ jewellery maker. Budget was tight, it would have been easy to do a simple in studio catalogue shoot but these beautiful pieces are individually hand dried flora encased in resin, freezing their beauty for all time.

 A sterile studio shoot seemed such a waste and so instead we celebrated the essence of the product and took it back to nature sourcing a beautiful roof top swimming pool garden in the CBD where we could work with models, the garden features and the sophistication of the surroundings to present the product in such a way that highlighted both the up-market luxury brand of the hand crafted pieces but also the organic foundation in nature.

Despite the lifestyle nature of the shoot the half day spent on location enabled us to create enough varied images to satisfy a wide range of usage from online selling store images to social media, website intro pages and general marketing material images.


Now you may be thinking, “hey that’s cool, but doing this with jewellery seems logical and quite easy… I make widgets, how do you get creative with that?”

Well another recent shoot I (Andy) did was with a local metals company that sell metal bars and strips in copper, bronze, iron and so on. The initial meeting with the client went along the lines of “Yep we have these products and need a load of product shots which show it exactly as it is for the catalogue side of our website but we also want to do something more but we haven’t got a clue how to do that and we need ideas”. 

Essentially this company, like most of their competitors, were used to dealing with their standard clients in the construction industry etc who were very straight and linear in their approach. They need a piece of metal this circumference and this long and they want to simply see that the company has it and then they want to buy it (this is where the clinical studio product shot is king…. It shows exactly what is on offer).

But they also had realised that their customers were changing and now started to include architects, installation artists, interior designers and more artistic individuals who were buying metals direct or were becoming key influencers over there standard customers.

As a result they wanted images that could take them into a new zone where they could challenge the conventional look of their industry sector.

Wondering around their yards I found bins full of off cuts of all these wonderful metals, where in cutting the rods or cylinders, the insides had become amazingly burnished and beautiful and where the company saw scrap pieces I saw the most wonderful shapes and textures and reflective surfaces and thought, why don’t we use these off cuts to create artworks in their own right.

So, I thought, why not just lay a massive 3m x 3m piece of backdrop paper on the floor and then lay out all these different offcuts and scrap pieces into amazing geometric three-dimensional patterns of shape, reflection, shadow and light.

In my minds eye I could see the end result, but while I am an artist when I have a camera in my hand I am not great in other mediums…. That is why I have someone like Emily as my business partner, a new media, design specialist and photographer. She came on site and between us we created four three dimensional pieces of art in Bronze, Copper, Brass and Iron and then hanging off a high platform I photographed from above as single gigantic flat lays. Then we started moving around them and shooting from different angled exploring the shapes and forms we had created and from something that the client perceived as bland raw products and a slightly crazy idea, generated a set of wonderfully creative and artistic images in what became one of my favourite shoots of the year.

Catalogue style product photography is of course very necessary and has its place in your marketing and sales mix, but if you need some product shots done pause for a moment, find the right photographer, listen to where they might think about taking the concepts and you might find that some amazing things can be created on modest budgets that transcends the simple “this is what you get” and provides a range of images that can be used through multiple marketing channels and create that extra little bit of magic around your brand.

Whether we are shooting a new action camera or a lump of metal, we always try and think beyond the box…..

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A JOB THAT'S OUT OF THIS WORLD: Brisbane Product Photography

A JOB THAT'S OUT OF THIS WORLD: Brisbane Product Photography

Every now and then along comes a job that is simply out of this world…. When we got a call from PFi in Darra to help them out with a commercial product photography project we suddenly realised that this would be one of them…. Quite literally!!!

You see PFi is a bit special…. Amongst lots of other things, this Darra-based company make rocket engines, work with organisations such as NASA and Northrop Grumman and are about to revolutionise STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) teaching across the world… and maybe a bit beyond.

Moreover they are about to become the only Australian company to export an Australian designed and constructed rocket engine.

The reason they called us was to help them with a project they are undertaking with their new business partners, Northrop Grumman, around an ingenious, desktop rocket engine designed and built by PFi’s General Manager of Defence and Aerospace Projects, Nick Green.

 

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What is so ingenious about this new rocket is that it is designed to be built and fired by school children and their STEM or science teachers making rocket science understandable along the way.

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Now Northrop Grumman, one of the biggest players in the world aerospace and defence industry, has thrown its weight behind PFi and the two are now planning to distribute the STEM rocket to schools around the global, helping to shape the next generation of Rocket Scientists and engineers.

PFi called LP Commercial Photography in to create professional photography for joint marketing material for PFi and Northrop Grumman. The job entailed two photoshoots. The first a set of product images showing the unit in various stages of construction, followed by a second commercial lifestyle photoshoot with students at Sheldon College using and interacting with the STEM rocket. Sheldon is a forward-thinking school near Brisbane which is already planning to prepare their student body for the latest stage in the Space Race by building Space Academy.

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With Australia looking to become more of a player in the Space industry through the ongoing work of the Australian Space Agency, companies like PFi will be setting the standard and leading the way.

Personally, it was an absolute joy to be involved in this project and spend time chatting to Nick about his passion. Born the year before the first moon landing, space travel has always been a major interest of mine. As a child, the ceiling of my bedroom was covered in Space Shuttle wallpaper and the last thing I saw each night before closing my eyes was the stars above me with a multitude of space shuttles blasting through the cosmos. 

Airfix models of the Saturn 5 rocket and the lunar lander were on my bookshelf and Space 1999 was simply the best TV show ever made to my mind. Then as a young man in my 20’s visiting Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Centre and actually seeing a space shuttle ready for launch (albeit through a massive pair of binoculars LOL) is a memory that stays with me to this day nearly 30 years later.

Knowing that there are companies like PFi right on our doorsteps here in Brisbane, helping mankind to push the boundaries and to get the chance to play even the tiniest role in that, just puts a great big grin on my face.

Andy

Capturing A Versatile & Creative Commercial Advertising Campaign Photoshoot for Active Wear Brand, bluerg (Copy)

Capturing A Versatile & Creative Commercial Advertising Campaign Photoshoot for Active Wear Brand, bluerg

OUR CLIENT

At the end of 2019, we got to work with the up and coming fitness wear brand bluerg, as an Australian company devoted to developing more evolved products for women. 

In particular, they aim to support those who are embracing and developing their strength and functional abilities.  This might mean changes to their body, including your upper body shape and size. 

They are personalised with their brand with a unique sizing approach and their purpose is to provide you with more control over the fit, comfort and functionality of your apparel. They are also giving back to others with their long term vision to allocate a portion of profits to sponsoring and advocating for girls and women in sport.

THE BRIEF

LP Commercial Photography Brisbane were commissioned by bluerg for a full day commercial advertising photoshoot to capture a variety of imagery for social, web and advertising for the brand’s launch. bluerg have two collections; Move & Rest - Move being more of a crossfit, gym or athlete targeted product - and Rest being more of a relaxed, bed, around the house comfort product.

In order to portray the two styles, we split the day into three themes - gym imagery, house/relaxed imagery and product photography for shopify. We created a variety of lifestyle imagery that bluerg could use in their new campaigns, on their website banners, product information sites and social media.

Our final selection of images were all provided in full crop, high resolution sizing, as well as a second copy for website and social use sized correctly and cropped for their intended use.

See the result of our commercial photography campaign below. They are now live and you can check out their website here: https://bluerg.com.au/

LIFESTYLE BANNERS FOR WEBSITE USE

Purposely shot images to be used for website banners, therefore a more panoramic style image that coule display the product but also the scene.

COLLECTION BANNERS FOR WEBSITE USE

Purposely shot images to be used for website collection banners to help draw in potential clients for purchasing the product. These were shot for a 4:3 ratio.

PERSONALISED SIZING GUIDE FOR WEBSITE USE

We captured this great group image of all the ladies to be used on the sizing page of the website and to show real life women wearing the brand in different sizes.

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SQUARE CROPS FOR SHOPIFY PRODUCT STORE

We photographed the whole range as clean product photography shots to be used on the website for selling the product.

SQUARE & RECTANGLE CROPS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA USE AND WEBSITE PRODUCT SHOTS

We created a set of images in square & rectangle crop to be used for social media & product features on the website.

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LP COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY BRISBANE - SHOOTING ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS (Copy)

CREATIVE COLLABORATION = THE BEST CAMPAIGN PHOTOGRAPHY

One of my favourite elements of our commercial photography business, LP Commercial Photography, is the opportunity to work on creating advertising material and campaign photography.

When done right, it sees you coming together to work with other creatives and the client to take basic concepts and create something unique and often more than you might have done on your own.

Bouncing around ideas and concepts with highly creative people, designers, creative directors and clients can sometimes be a little noisy, occasionally confrontational, however is always good fun and it challenges you to step up your game.

It’s also wonderful the way it can push you technically as a photographer as well as artistically. Once the end concept has grown and been nurtured in the cauldron of collaborative brainstorming, it then often falls to the photographer and their team to work out just how exactly those concepts are going to be created in the real world of the photoshoot.

The best part is when you deliver for your client - the concepts are realised and sometimes surpassed in the shoot and then they come back again and again because they know you can deliver.

This brings us to our third shoot with Brisbane based sports-wear company Zero Athletic and Vorgee. Previous shoots for the brand had seen us photograph in the crashing waves of the Gold Coast with daughter of business owners Bill and Lou, former Australian team member and world number one tri-athlete, Felicity Abrams. As well as hiking and mountain biking up hills and into bushland for an active clothing shoot and being slightly more serene in more studio style set-ups.

Our latest shoot with the brand was to capture the stills required for their designer, the wonderful Matt Roberts of www.robertstown.com.au to create a new set of advertising material for a revolutionary wetsuit aimed at open water swimmers and tri-athletes.

The brief was to have a series of shots which Matt could take into photoshop to show swimmers charging through the water and leaping into the air dragging a spinning vortex behind them. Outside of the brief, we also wanted to produce some general swimming images, close up detail shots and product photography of the new suits which could be used for social media and web exploitation and their online store.

So Bill called up his contacts at a local Brisbane swimming pool, we booked out their dive pool for the morning and off we went.

Talking about pushing myself, I do have a basic fear of heights…. Which is pretty silly when you consider the number of times in my career I’ve hung out of helicopters and stood at the top of wind turbines or been at the top of under construction buildings. Even more so, considering my love of bungee jumping and rock climbing in my youth…. But for me it’s actually a kind of middle height fear. So while I find being really high exhilarating, being a bit high scares me to death. Unfortunately for me the only way to get that perfect straight down shot of the swimmers on this occasion was to lie over the edge of a dive platform and photograph the swimmers as they went under me…. a middle height dive platform….. ahh, the things I do for the job :)

So we spent the morning shooting from high off the dive board, shooting in the water, level across the water and every other angle you can think of. We set up a studio in a quiet part of the pool area and shot the swimmers practicing their positions to give us back up shots for photoshop purposes to use if they couldn’t make the body shapes we needed in the actual pool. We even photographed shots of the water to make sure Matt had some good high resolution water texture pieces to use in Photoshop when bringing all the images together into a final montage piece for the advertising campaign.

It all went swimmingly well…. See our behind the scenes video below of the photoshoot fun.

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Commercial Photography for a Social Media & Online Campaign: Brisbane's Wolff Coffee Roasters (Copy)

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Commercial Photography for a Social Media & Online Campaign: Brisbane's Wolff Coffee Roasters

BRIEF:

LP Commercial Photography were commissioned by Insight Social Media to work with their client Wolff Coffee Roasters to produce a range of quality, professional and sleek imagery for Wolff’s online and social media presence. Our brief for the half day social media and online campaign included the below:

  • Product Focus: Production in various settings, the products being used, packaging, flat lay, lifestyle and macro

  • Coffee Craft: Roasting process, roasters, packaging, science, behind the scenes

  • Flavour Mastery: Crema, macro imagery of coffee being made, coffee machines, tastings, training room

  • Wolff Pack: The team, faces, team at work, lifestyle, roasting

  • Location: Interior imagery of building and exterior, atmosphere

LP Commercial Photography had one lead photographer on site working with a representative from Insight Social and one representative from Wolff Coffee to ensure key shots were delivered on and setups of coffee products were ready to shoot. We had a very successful day with a lot of fun along the way. See our results below.

See more about Insight Social Media HERE and Wolff Coffee Roasters HERE.

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A JOB THAT'S OUT OF THIS WORLD: Brisbane Product Photography (Copy) (Copy)

Every now and then along comes a job that is simply out of this world…. When we got a call from PFi in Darra to help them out with a commercial product photography project we suddenly realised that this would be one of them…. Quite literally!!!

You see PFi is a bit special…. Amongst lots of other things, this Darra-based company make rocket engines, work with organisations such as NASA and Northrop Grumman and are about to revolutionise STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) teaching across the world… and maybe a bit beyond.

Moreover they are about to become the only Australian company to export an Australian designed and constructed rocket engine.

The reason they called us was to help them with a project they are undertaking with their new business partners, Northrop Grumman, around an ingenious, desktop rocket engine designed and built by PFi’s General Manager of Defence and Aerospace Projects, Nick Green.

 

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What is so ingenious about this new rocket is that it is designed to be built and fired by school children and their STEM or science teachers making rocket science understandable along the way.

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Now Northrop Grumman, one of the biggest players in the world aerospace and defence industry, has thrown its weight behind PFi and the two are now planning to distribute the STEM rocket to schools around the global, helping to shape the next generation of Rocket Scientists and engineers.

PFi called LP Commercial Photography in to create professional photography for joint marketing material for PFi and Northrop Grumman. The job entailed two photoshoots. The first a set of product images showing the unit in various stages of construction, followed by a second commercial lifestyle photoshoot with students at Sheldon College using and interacting with the STEM rocket. Sheldon is a forward-thinking school near Brisbane which is already planning to prepare their student body for the latest stage in the Space Race by building Space Academy.

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With Australia looking to become more of a player in the Space industry through the ongoing work of the Australian Space Agency, companies like PFi will be setting the standard and leading the way.

Personally, it was an absolute joy to be involved in this project and spend time chatting to Nick about his passion. Born the year before the first moon landing, space travel has always been a major interest of mine. As a child, the ceiling of my bedroom was covered in Space Shuttle wallpaper and the last thing I saw each night before closing my eyes was the stars above me with a multitude of space shuttles blasting through the cosmos. 

Airfix models of the Saturn 5 rocket and the lunar lander were on my bookshelf and Space 1999 was simply the best TV show ever made to my mind. Then as a young man in my 20’s visiting Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Centre and actually seeing a space shuttle ready for launch (albeit through a massive pair of binoculars LOL) is a memory that stays with me to this day nearly 30 years later.

Knowing that there are companies like PFi right on our doorsteps here in Brisbane, helping mankind to push the boundaries and to get the chance to play even the tiniest role in that, just puts a great big grin on my face.

Andy