Showcasing your Business Services Through Professional Commercial Imagery: Shique Beauty

Ask yourself, what’s the most attention grabbing thing when someone searches for you, your company or your product? Imagery!

Your imagery reflects your brand. As a service provider, photographs of you working in your field is vital in portraying your personal brand or creating a personal connection with potential future clients. 

Under the LP Commercial Photography brand, I captured some commercial branding imagery for the lovely team at Shique Beauty to capture their services, their personalised service and their friendly and 5 star customer service. Such a lovely, open and glowing group of ladies who are amazing at what they do - hair, make-up and beauty services. 

The imagery that reflects your brand 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. In a crowded marketplace identifying photographers who can achieve both stunning images and effectively communicate brand values is critical.

Get it wrong and 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 real negative effect on your bottom line. Too often, people buy purely on cost then find that the cheapest option only ends up costing far more in the long run.

My business partner, Andy and I are dedicated to working hand-in-hand with our clients to ensure a rewarding and enjoyable working experience and collaboration of minds to create pride in the end result among all those involved in a commission.

Brisbane Commercial Photography
QLD Telstra Business Awards Finalist
www.lpcommercial.photography

HM Magazine Mantra Executives Feature: A raw opportunity to a billion dollar company

HM Magazine Mantra Executives Feature: A raw opportunity to a billion dollar company

As Brisbane’s Commercial Photographers servicing the Brisbane area and Sydney and Melbourne, we get to work with some great clients with amazing brand stories to tell. We recently worked with HM Magazine to photograph the Mantra Executives as a front cover feature for the magazine.

We give you a little behind the scenes look at our commercial shoot below.

Andy & Em

Brisbane Commercial Photography

www.lpcommercial.photography

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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BTS on a Porsche Race Car Driver Photoshoot for Helimods - Brisbane Commercial Lifestyle Photography

Take a handful of Porsche racing cars, add one of the Australia’s top young racing drivers, mix in one of our favourite clients, add a dash of outdoor studio lighting and sprinkle liberally with a brand new stunningly sharp canon lens and you have the recipe for one hell of a commercial lifestyle photoshoot.

Our friends at Helimods at Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast, commissioned LP Commercial Photography to capture a set of images celebrating not only the end of their first year as sponsors of a Porsche race team, but also celebrating team driver and Helimods intern, Harri Jones, being crowned Australian Champion in his first season.

We managed to get our timing just right for the photoshoot, with Harri juggling dates between testing his new cars for next season in Germany, travelling back to the Sunshine Coast and sitting his university exams. As our shoot date approached, the weather changed and on the day we were faced with dark and gloomy skies as we drove up from Brisbane to Helimod’s airport-based headquarters. As our late afternoon shoot time approached we were faced with only the mildest hint of a crack in the clouds for a sunset.

Rescheduling wasn’t an option, so out came the big strobes, taking our studio lights on set to create some dramatic images with a 4 light setup.

The week of the shoot, we were lucky enough to have Canon lend us one of their new 28-70 f2 lenses to try out on the EOS R mirrorless cameras we are slowly transitioning to. The lens was fantastic, sharp all the way through its aperture range and a had a really crisp fall off in focus at the wider end. Coupled to the EOS R it was a great combo to shoot with.

See LP Commercial Photography behind the scenes fun below of our afternoon with Helimods, as well as a few images of the finished product.

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Focusing On Getting The Perfect Images On A Staff Day Out... Brisbane Event and Commercial Photography

Focusing On Getting The Perfect Images On A Staff Day Out... Brisbane Event and Commercial Photography

Call me an old petrol head, but nothing quite gets the old heart pumping as the sound of a race car engine screaming from its low rumbling base to its high revving fury.

So when our Sunshine Coast-based high-tech aerospace engineering client Helimods asked me if I could do some documentary and event photography of their team spending the day with a GT3 Race car they sponsor (with their intern Harri Jones as the driver!)… how could I say no!

On a blistering hot Queensland summer day with the track temperature in the mid to high 50’s we all got together for an exciting day of roaring engines and exhaust fumes.

Internal events like these are all about building that feeling of camaraderie between staff, boosting morale and about rewarding and giving back to staff for all their hard work by giving them an experience they otherwise would not have.

Helimods excels in this area. They are an incredibly hard-working company where performance is critical. Their work goes sometimes quite literally on the front line in the worlds of defence, rescue and emergency services. But despite the never-ending pressure of performance there are few companies I have worked with or visited where every member of staff seems to be on board for the challenge and where professional and non-professional camaraderie is shared across departments to create a very focussed and happy working environment.

It’s one of the reasons we love taking professional advertising, marketing and social media images for Helimods. They are incredible clients and simply do things properly.

But for the photographer at internal staff events it is really critical not to get lazy or underestimate the images being taken. It’s about so much more than just taking quick snaps of people having fun.

When undertaking event photography for internal events, for any client it’s very important to understand how the images will be used and that knowledge must then shape how you photograph the day.

Yes of course you are there to take professional quality photographs for the team, recording their day and the fun and excitement. But the images will also be used by the business in their social media feeds to present themselves; perhaps as a great place to work with friendly happy staff to help in recruitment and staff retention; as a go getter business promoting in a soft way its links back to the original sponsorship and the aspirational qualities of that sponsorship; underlining it’s core values to a wider business community; showing both competitors and potential clients that this is a company that treats it’s staff right and is a good company to be doing business with;… and so on.

Beyond that though, the individual staff members will also use those images in their own social media channels showing what a great and exciting day they had…. the classic “this was my office today…” post or just in excited outbursts to friends and family.

In a world of ever-expanding social networking you never know where your photographs will end up, with, or who they will be put in front of. As photographers we have to be mindful of this to ensure the business or company and it’s values are represented correctly. A poorly structured image with staff not appropriately dressed, safely issues being present or even having the wrong PPE can easily end up in the wrong hands and have some serious consequences.

As a result, it’s not enough for a photographer to think: “oh it is just an internal event so let’s just get some nice shots of everyone having fun” we have to treat all events with an eye for attention to detail.

Yes it is all about staff having fun, but the clients brand equity and values must be reflected in every shot so how are the staff in your images having fun and is the behaviour acceptable, are the images showing safe behaviour with appropriate PPE or other procedures being followed despite the team having fun. Is there branding in the shots, are staff presented in clean cut fashion if that is important to the brand. All these factors and more have to be taken into account to produce a set of images that not only capture a great fun day out for the team, reflect the photographers style, creativity and quality but also provide real marketing image value for the client.

Andy