What a business photoshoot covers
A business photoshoot is the office itself, not the boardroom: your workspace, your team doing their actual jobs, the details that show how the company runs. Corporate photography covers executives, conferences, annual reports and formal events. If that’s what you need, corporate photography from £250 is the better fit. This page is the everyday version: the team page, the careers page, the LinkedIn feed.
The office and the workspace
Wide shots of the space, close ones of the details: the coffee machine everyone queues at, the whiteboard mid-scribble, the plant nobody waters. I shoot the room before it fills up and again once it has, so both versions exist.
The team at work
People at their desks, in a real meeting, walking between floors, not lined up against a wall or smiling at a laptop that is not switched on. Planning a business photoshoot covers timing this around an ordinary working day.
The building and the details
One shot of the entrance and signage for the contact page, plus a handful of details: a logo on glass, a branded mug, the reception desk. Small things, but they fill gaps a wide office shot never quite can.
Business photography prices
A half day covers around three hours on site and starts at £250. A full day runs £500 to £700, depending on the building and how many teams I’m covering. Both include editing and delivery within 48 hours, licensed for any business use.
| Booking | What it covers | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Half day | One team, one floor, around 3 hours | £250 |
| Full day | Several teams or a full working day | £500–£700 |
| Adding headshots | A 2-hour headshot block plus the rest of the day roaming | +£150–£200 |
| Multi-floor or multi-site | More than one location in a day | From £700 |
| Quarterly refresh | A short return visit to update key images | From £250 |
| Out-of-hours | Before 8am, after 7pm, or weekends | +£75 |
What actually moves the number is headcount, floor count, and whether I am working around your day or you have cleared a room for me. A cleared room is quicker and cheaper. A working office takes longer, because I am waiting for the right moment rather than manufacturing one.
See full pricing across every service for how this compares with everything else I shoot.
Office photographer: shooting without clearing the floor
You don’t stage an office. You photograph one while it’s running. I arrive before 10am for the empty architectural frames: the stairwell, the boardroom, the kitchen before anyone has made coffee. Then I work through a normal working day for the shots with people in them.
Most photography guides tell you to chase soft window light late in the day. In a lot of Shoreditch and Clerkenwell offices by 4pm in October that light has gone anyway, so I do not wait for it. A flash bounced off the ceiling does the job just as well.
What you need to give me
- A short warning email to staff two days before, so nobody is startled by a camera at their desk
- One person on the day who can introduce me around and put names to faces
- Permission to move a bin, a chair or a stack of boxes six inches, then put it back
What ruins a shoot like this
An all-hands meeting scheduled for the same morning empties every desk I need. So does a Friday, when half the floor is working from home. I check both before booking the date. Photographing a working office covers timing, and recent jobs sit in work from London offices and studios.
Photographing a team that hates being photographed
Most people do, whatever they say in the group chat about “loving this”. The honest method is no line-up: ten minutes per small group, at their own desk or in the corner they work in most, with an easy way to opt out that does not put anyone on the spot.
I will say plainly what I think: the staged “team laughing at a laptop” shot is worse than no team photo at all. Nobody laughs like that at a laptop, and everyone knows it. Clients ask for it anyway, often because a competitor has got one. I’d rather give you team photographs that don’t look staged: genuine conversation, caught mid-sentence.
Startups and small offices
A ten-person company in a co-working space has a different problem to a corporate floor. The space is not yours, and it looks exactly like the fifty other startups renting desks near the Old Street roundabout. Beanbags and a ping-pong table do not say anything about what you actually do.
So I shoot closer and tighter: more people in frame, less room behind them, crops favouring faces and hands over architecture. A laptop screen with your actual product open says more than a wide shot of a shared kitchen. Photography for a startup covers making a rented desk look like it’s yours for the afternoon.
Making the images last
Business photographs date faster than almost anything else I shoot. A new hire, a rebranded wall, a desk moved to the other side of the floor, and half your website images look three years old rather than three months.
What slows that down: fewer wide shots showing branding or a specific desk layout, more close work on people and process that doesn’t change when the office does. Timeless clothing helps too, a jumper dates better than a lanyard with last year’s conference badge still clipped on. Expect eighteen months before a refresh earns its keep. For anything brand-led rather than office-led, a full branding shoot is the better fit.
Adding headshots to the same day
The efficient combination is two hours of headshots at a fixed station in the morning, then the rest of the day roaming for the office and team shots. One trip, one invoice, less disruption than two separate bookings.
On their own, headshots from £150 per person is the going rate for a dedicated session. Folded into a business shoot, I charge a flat £150 to £200 on top of the day rate, because the lighting is already up and nobody is paying for a second setup or travel.
Everyone needs their slot booked in advance, because a headshot rota that slips eats into the roaming time. What it saves is a second booking fee, a second commute for me, and a second day out of everyone’s diary.
When a business shoot is the wrong spend
A company about to move office in six weeks should wait and shoot the new space, not the one it is leaving. A team of six who only need headshots should book headshots, not a half-day business shoot.
Same goes for anyone mid rebrand: wait for the new design before you shoot to it, or you’ll pay twice. None of this is a hard sell for me to make. It is just true, and saying so now costs less than a refund later.
Get in touch and tell me your headcount and office postcode. I’ll reply within one working day with a day rate and the nearest available date.