Brand design and photography for small businesses in Scotland
Brand design and photography for small businesses in Edinburgh and across Scotland

Brand design and photography for small businesses
in Edinburgh and across Scotland

Brand design and photography, planned together

If you need a new or updated brand identity alongside professional photographs, arranging the two separately can leave you trying to make them fit together afterwards.

This joint service brings brand design and photography into one coordinated process. Your brand identity is developed first, then the finished design and the thinking behind it inform the detailed planning for your photographs.

The result is design and photography that support one another across your website and marketing, helping prospective clients understand who you are, what you do, and what distinguishes your business.

Brand photographer and designer Donna Green and Karen Bennett in Edinburgh, Scotland

Donna Green, Karen Bennett

Two specialists, one co-ordinated service

Brand designer Karen Bennett and I each lead our own part of the work.

Karen develops your brand's visual identity, while I plan and create the photographs, with the relevant information and decisions passed between us as the project progresses.

You don't have to brief two separate suppliers, repeat the same information, or work out for yourself how the design and photography should fit together.

Your logos, colours, fonts, and photographs are all based on the same understanding of your business, so they can be used together naturally across your website and marketing.

What this approach supports

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A clearer understanding of what you do, how you work, and what distinguishes your approach

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Brand design and photographs that work naturally together across your website and marketing

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A professional visual presence that reflects the quality of your work

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This isn’t about making your business look polished for the sake of it. It’s about giving prospective clients a more accurate and complete picture of the business they’re considering working with.

Brand design and photography commissions

MOMENTUM

£2,475
Timeline: around 7 weeks
Save £275 compared to booking separately

Momentum is for growing businesses that need a more extensive brand identity and a broader collection of photographs for their website and ongoing marketing.

It combines Karen’s more extensive brand design service with my half-day Soar commission, giving us time to photograph your client work, conversations, presentations, processes, and other situations that help prospective clients understand what working with you involves.

Design includes:

  • Strategic brand review + brand blueprint
  • Creative direction workshop and moodboard
  • 2 initial concept directions
  • Primary logo + 2 secondary logos + brandmark
  • Brand fonts + 6-colour palette
  • One additional brand asset (e.g. pattern, social templates, or print collateral)
  • Brand style guide
  • Final files in print + web formats

Photography includes:

  • A half day brand shoot across two locations
  • A versatile collection of 60 carefully planned, professionally finished brand photographs
  • Time to cover your client work, conversations, presentations, processes, and other situations relevant to your business
  • A follow-up call with me to plan how and where to use your new photographs across your website and marketing
  • Based on my Soar brand photography commission

CLARITY

£1,890
Timeline: around 6 weeks
Save £210 compared to booking separately

Clarity is for businesses that need the core elements of a new or updated brand identity alongside a smaller collection of professional photographs.

It combines Karen’s core brand design service with my one-hour Elevate commission. It works well when everything we need can be planned and photographed within one carefully chosen location or compact area.


Design includes:

  • Strategic brand review + brand blueprint
  • Creative direction workshop and moodboard
  • 2 initial concept directions
  • Primary logo + secondary logo
  • Brand fonts + 4-colour palette
  • Final logo files (print + web formats)

Photography includes:

  • A one-hour brand shoot within one carefully chosen location or compact area 
  • A focused collection of 30 carefully planned, professionally finished brand photographs
  • Portraits, working situations, and details most useful to your business right now
  • Based on my "Elevate" brand photography commission
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How the joint service works

1

GETTING STARTED

  • A joint discovery call with Karen and me to discuss your business, what you need, and which commission gives us the right scope
  • A clear project timeline showing what will happen, who will lead each stage, and what we’ll need from you
  • Our brand workbook and optional visual exercise, completed before the design work begins

2

BRAND DESIGN AND PHOTOGRAPHY

  • Karen develops your brand identity first, guiding you through the design decisions and finalising the agreed logos, colours, fonts, and other elements
  • Once the design is complete, Karen passes the finished identity and relevant planning information to me
  • I use these to plan your photographs in detail with you before the brand shoot takes place

3

DELIVERY AND SUPPORT

  • Your completed brand files and style guide from Karen, followed by your finished collection of 30 or 60 photographs from me, depending on the commission you choose
  • A follow-up call with me to help you decide where different photographs can be used across your website and marketing if you book the Momentum service
  • A coordinated handover so you understand what you’ve received and how the design and photography can be used together

Is this the right fit for you? 

This service works best if you need both a new or updated brand identity and professional photographs, and want the two to work naturally together across your website and marketing.

It can suit a new business establishing its visual presence or an existing business whose design and photography no longer reflect the quality or direction of its work. If you already have a designer you want to continue working with, or you only need photography at this stage, one of my standalone brand photography commissions will probably be more appropriate.

I commissioned Karen to develop my own brand identity, so I also understand the process from the client’s side. You can read about my experience in in my blog post on brand design for small businesses here. 

Ready to talk it through?

The first step is a joint discovery call with Karen and me. We’ll talk through what you need from your brand design and photography, what has prompted the change, and whether Clarity or Momentum gives us the right scope.

If the joint service is a good fit, we’ll explain how the project will work and what happens next.

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Get LIGHT NOTES by email

A weekly email about business, visibility, and helping the right people understand what you do.

Every Wednesday, I share an observation from everyday life that somehow finds its way back to business. It might be sparked by a client conversation, a walk with the dog, or occasionally something completely unexpected.

Along the way, you’ll find practical ideas about marketing, visibility, and using photography to help people understand what you do.

If that sounds like your sort of email, I’d love to send it to you.

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