Your crew, your job sites, your finished work, shot properly and cut for where it actually gets used. The website, the ads, the profile and the feed. Not stock photos of somebody else's kitchen.
Visual trades get judged on pictures. If your gallery is dark phone shots and a stock image of a generic kitchen, you have already been priced lower than the company with real photos of real work.
Everyone recognizes stock now, even people who could not tell you why. A homeowner comparing three contractors sees one with photos of actual finished jobs and two with the same licensed images, and quietly assumes the first one does more work. It is an unfair read and it is the one they make.
Taken at the end of a long day, in bad light, from whatever angle you happened to be standing at, with a trailer and a porta-potty in frame. The work is good. The photo is not, and the photo is all anyone sees.
The thing that decides whether a Meta campaign works is not targeting, it is whether the first two seconds stop the scroll. If all you have is a horizontal photo with text over it, the budget gets spent finding that out.
All of it aimed at where the images are actually going to be used, which is why the shot list looks different from a wedding photographer's.
The pour, the roof going on, the finished basement, the crew mid-job. Shot in the right light at the right angle, with the clutter kept out of frame. These end up on the website, the Google Business Profile and in the ads.
Filmed and edited for phones with captions, because most of Facebook and Instagram watches with the sound off. A horizontal clip pulled off your website does not work in a feed, and neither does a photo with text slapped on it.
Owner shots, crew shots and headshots that do not look like a driver's license photo. People hire people, and the about page with real faces on it outperforms the one with a truck on it almost every time.
Clean studio shots for catalogs, online stores and spec sheets, priced by product count and how many angles each one needs. That one has its own page with the detail.
Everything delivered in the sizes and formats the site actually needs, compressed properly so the page still loads fast. A gallery of 8MB camera files will undo your page speed on its own.
The same shoot supplies the website, the profile, the social posts and the ad creative. One trip, used in five places, which is most of why it is worth doing properly.
Photo and video usually arrives with something else. See Meta ads, website design, branding and print or product photography.
Go and look at the other photography and video companies in Minnesota. Almost none of them publish a number, and several put the question in their own FAQ and then decline to answer it. Here is how ours works instead.
A one-off shoot is quoted per job, and three things move the price: how far we drive, how long we are there, and how much editing comes after. A half day on one job site with stills and a handful of vertical clips is a different number than a full day across three crews with a produced video at the end. You get that number in writing before we book anything, and it does not change afterwards.
If photography is part of your marketing rather than a one-time thing, it is cheaper inside a package. Full Service at $3,000 a month includes two on-site photo and video shoots every month. A twelve month commitment on any plan includes two shoots at no charge. Either way the files are yours to keep and use anywhere, forever.
Look at the agencies you are comparing us to. The big Minneapolis ones sell SEO, websites and ads, and that is the whole list. If you need photos, they send you to somebody else and mark it up.
The reason this sits inside a marketing company rather than a studio. The images come back and go straight into the website, the Google Business Profile, the social posts and the ad creative.
See the numbersReal job photography shot for a client whose site is now four years old and still running on it. Good photos age a lot better than good layouts.
See the numbersClean product shots for online stores, catalogs and spec sheets, including multi-brand work where each line has to look distinct but related.
See the numbersCory handles the camera and Ashlyn handles the production side. That is the whole crew, which means you are not coordinating with a studio, a producer and an account manager to get a half day booked. We drive out from Cambridge, and most of Isanti, Chisago, Anoka and Sherburne counties is inside an easy range. Further is fine, it just goes into the quote.
Turnaround is usually a week to ten days for stills and a bit longer when there is video to cut. You get the finished files plus the raw selects, and you can use them anywhere: the site, the truck, the print work, your social, somebody else's ads. They are yours. If you stop working with us tomorrow you keep every one of them.
A one-off shoot is quoted per job on travel, time on site and editing, and you get that number in writing before anything is booked. If photography is ongoing rather than one-time, it is cheaper inside a package.
You run your own ads and just need creative worth running.
For a business with a decent site that needs the phone to ring.
Everything, including me on site with a camera twice a month.
Every file is yours to keep and use anywhere, forever, including on another agency's ads if you leave. A twelve month commitment on any monthly plan includes two photo and video shoots at no charge.
A one-off shoot is quoted per job and the number comes down to travel, time on site and how much editing follows. You get it in writing before anything is booked. If it is ongoing rather than one-time, it is cheaper inside a package: Full Service at $3,000 a month includes two shoots a month, and a twelve month commitment on any plan includes two shoots at no charge. Most companies in this category refuse to answer this question at all, so there is the answer.
No. A lot of the best material is just the work: a pour, a roof going on, a finished basement, hands doing something skilled. Being on camera helps because people hire people, but it is not a requirement and we will not push you into it.
You do. Every file is yours to keep and use anywhere, forever, including your website, your truck, your print work, your social and even another agency's ads. If you stop working with us you keep all of it. That should be normal and it often is not.
Yes. We are based in Cambridge, so Isanti, Chisago, Anoka, Sherburne and Pine counties are an easy drive and most of the metro is straightforward. Further out is fine too, it just factors into the quote. Say where the job is and you will get a real number.
Yes. Photo and video is sold on its own as well as inside the monthly packages, and plenty of people book a shoot and nothing else. Nobody gets talked into a retainer to get a half day booked.
Usually a week to ten days for stills, a bit longer when there is video to edit. If you need something faster for a deadline, say so when you book and we will tell you honestly whether it is doable rather than agreeing and missing it.
