Half day brand photography commission
£1,200
Up to four hours of photography, supported by strategic planning and a detailed shoot plan. Includes 60 fully edited photographs, a commercial-use licence, and post-shoot implementation advice.
Flexible payment plans available.
What more scope looks like in practice
More scope isn’t simply about fitting more photographs into the session. It gives us time to work through several planned priorities properly, creating useful variation in setting, clothing, activity, and composition without rushing from one thing to the next.
That can be just as valuable if you work alone or remotely as it is if your business involves clients, colleagues, or groups. The difference isn’t how many people appear in the photographs, but how much of the brief we need to cover and how thoroughly we need to cover it.
During the planning process, we’ll decide what each part of the collection needs to do and how best to create it. Soar gives every priority the attention it needs, rather than trying to squeeze an ambitious list into one very busy hour.
What could your photographs show?
Every Soar shoot is planned around your business rather than a standard list of photographs. Depending on your work, your collection might include:
- Professional portraits in several settings
- Solo working images that show your expertise or process
- Different services or aspects of your work
- The tools, materials, documents, or processes involved in your service
- More personal photographs that help people get to know you
- Remote work with a client or group on screen
- One-to-one consultations or client conversations
- Meetings and collaboration with colleagues
- Presentations, workshops, training, or facilitation
- Supporting details and photographs with space for website text
Clients, colleagues, stand-ins, or a small audience can take part where they’re relevant to the brief.
We’ll plan what each person will be doing and when they need to arrive, so nobody has to spend half a day sitting in a meeting room waiting for their brief appearance with a notebook.
What makes Soar different
There's time to show how you work
Four hours gives us room to move through several planned situations without trying to cram an established business into one very busy hour.
We can photograph different aspects of your service, involve other people, and still leave time for portraits, clothing changes, and the small adjustments that make a photograph work.
Planning that begins with the business
You’ll complete my in-depth online Brand Blueprint, and I’ll review your current website and marketing before our planning meeting. We’ll work out what people need to understand about your business, where the photographs will be used, and which parts of your work would be most useful to show.
I’ll then bring the decisions about locations, clothing, props, participants, and timings into a detailed written shoot plan. You won’t arrive hoping we remember everything discussed on a video call three weeks earlier.
Help using the photographs afterwards
Once your photographs are ready, we’ll have an implementation call to look through the different types of image in your collection and where they could do the most useful job. This might include particular website pages, proposals, speaking materials, LinkedIn, articles, email marketing, or press activity.
The point isn’t to give you 60 photographs and leave you to work out what on earth to do with them.
What happens with a Soar commission
Before your shoot
During your shoot
After your shoot
Is Soar the right commission for you?
Soar is likely to suit you if you need to show several aspects of your work, involve other people, or create photographs for a range of professional uses.
If your needs are more contained – perhaps one person, one location, and a smaller number of priorities – Elevate may be enough. Transcend is reserved for genuinely extensive briefs involving several locations, a larger team, numerous participants, or a full day of photography.
You don’t need to decide this before you contact me. We’ll talk through what the photographs need to achieve and how involved the shoot will be, then I’ll recommend the commission that best fits the brief.
Most Soar commissions take place in one half day. Venue hire, paid models or stand-ins, hair and make-up, exceptional travel, and any other agreed production costs are charged separately.
Frequently asked questions
about half day brand photoshoots
in Edinburgh and across Scotland
You won’t spend four hours standing in one place attempting to produce 60 different expressions. We’ll move through the situations in your shoot plan, and much of the photography may involve you doing something familiar, such as talking to someone, working through a document, or explaining an idea.
I’ll direct you throughout, so you won’t be expected to know how to pose or what to do with your hands.
I’ll help you work out what the location needs to provide. It might be your own workplace, a client’s premises, a coworking venue, a meeting room, or another hired space with several useful settings.
Venue hire isn’t included in the commission price, so we’ll consider the practical options and costs before anything is booked.
Yes. Soar can include a small number of clients, colleagues, stand-ins, or audience members where they’re needed to represent how you work. We’ll plan what each person will do and when they need to attend.
Most clients invite people they know, although paid models can also be considered where the brief calls for them.
Most Soar commissions take place in one half day. Occasionally, two shorter shoots make more sense because of location access or the availability of other people.
This can be arranged by prior agreement and priced to account for the additional travel, setup, and diary time involved.
You may not need to publish 60 photographs on social media, and that isn’t what the collection is for. The images will be planned for different jobs across your website, LinkedIn, proposals, presentations, articles, emails, and other client-facing materials.
The value lies in having the right kind of photograph available when you need it, rather than using the same portrait everywhere because it’s the only one you have.
No - that’s what our planning process is for. We’ll look at how your business is currently presented, where the photographs will be used, and what prospective clients need to understand about your work. I’ll then turn those decisions into a detailed shoot plan, so you’ll know what we’re creating and why before the camera comes out.
Next steps
The first step is a short video call chat. We’ll look at what prospective clients need to understand about your work, where you’ll use the photographs, and whether clients, colleagues, or an audience need to be involved.
Once I understand what the photographs need to achieve, I’ll explain which commission I recommend and why.
DONNA GREEN
BRAND photographer edinburgh Scotland
DONNA GREEN
PErsonal branding photographer edinburgh Scotland
Headshot and Brand Photographer Edinburgh Scotland - covering Lothians, Scottish Borders, Fife, Glasgow, central Scotland, Lanarkshire, Scottish Borders, Highlands & Islands and elsewhere across Scotland.
Headshot and Personal Branding Photographer Edinburgh Scotland - covering Lothians, Scottish Borders, Fife, Glasgow, central Scotland, Lanarkshire, Scottish Borders, Highlands & Islands
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