Photography
Pictures that make everything else look better.
Tulsa-based, making pictures for businesses since 1999, with multiple clients we have kept for well over a decade. Product shots, headshots, industrial facility work, events, and editorial. Real photography that makes the website, the brochure, and the sales deck all look better.
Forbes Agency Council · 1,000+ clients · 25+ years
What we mean
Photography is the layer that makes everything else look better.
Most people think of business photography as headshots and product shots. Those are part of it. The other pieces are everything else the business needs the camera for: the plant floor where the work happens, the team in their actual building, the event the company puts on every year, the editorial pieces that go in the article or the case study. Each of those is a different setup and a different approach.
A website with stock photos and a website with real pictures of the actual team, the actual products, and the actual building are not the same website. Same code, same layout, completely different impression. That is what custom photography is for. It turns a generic page into a page about your business.
We are a small team in Tulsa. 25+ years in business, more than a thousand clients across that time. The same person you talk to on the first call is on the shoot day, and the same person you call when something needs to be reshot a year later.
How we work
From the first conversation to a library of images you will use for years.
First conversation
We talk about your business and where the pictures have to live. Website hero, product detail page, sales sheet, plant tour, trade show booth, social feed. The shot list comes from the answers, not from a generic checklist. Most of the meaningful decisions about a shoot get made before anyone uncaps a lens.
Plan the shoot
Locations, scheduling, props, wardrobe, the people who need to be in the frame, the equipment that has to be running, the things that have to look clean. For an industrial shoot we do a walk-through first. For product work we plan the lighting and the surfaces side-by-side with the way the images have to live on the website. None of this gets winged on the day.
Shoot day
We show up with the gear, the plan, and the patience to wait for the shot. Industrial shoots get scheduled around the work, not the other way around. Product sessions move fast because the planning is already done. Headshots run with a calm room and a flattering setup so even the camera-shy person on the team comes out looking good.
Edit and deliver
Color correction, cleanup, retouching where it serves the image without making it look fake. You get a private gallery to review, then final files in the formats your website, your sales team, and your printer all need. Most projects are delivered within two weeks of the shoot.
Year two and beyond
The first shoot is rarely the last. New products launch, the team grows, the building expands, the website needs another round. Most of our photography clients come back because the same team that took the first round of pictures already knows the brand, the people, and the places. You get a library that grows with the business instead of a folder that ages out.
Our approach
What you get that you wouldn't from a stock library.
Partner, not vendor
We sell relationships, not photo packages. We worked with our very first client from 1999 for over 20 years, until he retired. Across that time we helped him build his business: the brand for the company itself, then the supporting work for a wide variety of product lines (books, seminars, products) as they came along. We were there through periods of growth and through the harder stretches too. The first shoot is the start. The relationship is what's worth paying for.
Strategy from the business side
Most photography studios in our space are owned by a photographer. Our founder is not. His background is the business side. When you tell him you want a shoot, his first question is what the pictures have to do. Sell more product, recruit better people, win more bids, replace dated images on the homepage. Different goals, different shot lists. The strategy starts from the business side. The pictures come from photographers who are great at their craft.
Custom, not stock
No stock libraries. No royalty-free smiling-people-in-a-meeting shots dressed up as your team. Every shoot we build is planned for the specific business it represents. The risk with stock is not how it looks on day one. It's that you end up looking like every other business in your category that pulled from the same library. The point of going custom is that the pictures look like your business, not somebody else's.
Built to be recognized, by people and by AI
A picture only works if buyers can recognize it as your business across every place they encounter it. That used to mean print, signage, and a website. Today it also means the AI tools your buyers ask for recommendations: ChatGPT, Claude, Google's AI Overview. We name and tag the images so those tools recognize your photo as the canonical brand picture when they pull a thumbnail or surface a product carousel, instead of grabbing whatever comes up first.
Selected work
Shoots we've done.
Industries
Who we shoot for.
25+ years and 1,000+ clients across these industries. We bring the same level of craft to every one of them.
Industrial & Energy
Pipeline Equipment, Inc.
Legal
Secrest Hill & Secrest
Construction
Caton Asphalt
Home Services
Flash Painting
E-Commerce
Bellara Brass
Music & Entertainment
Garth Brooks, Taylor Swift
Non-Profit
Tulsa Girls Art School
Local & Regional Brands
1,000+ clients
Pricing
What's all this cost?
Most people want to know pretty early on. So let's get it out of the way, before you write a proposal in your head and we both end up in different ballparks.
Unlike many shops in our space, we do not have a minimum budget requirement. We have built photography projects at every size: from a focused half-day product session, all the way up to multi-day industrial shoots, full product catalogs, and brand-launch packages with headshots and editorial together. Projects on our list have ranged from a few hundred dollars to well over $1,000,000.
When you compare us to other shops, you will likely find we are neither the most expensive nor the least. The cheapest option (a friend with a nice camera, a free download from a stock library, the cousin who just bought a mirrorless body) usually is not a quality problem on day one. It is that the pictures look like a friend with a nice camera took them the first time anybody puts them next to your competitor's website, and you end up reshooting in a year anyway.
The good news is you do not have to do everything in one go. Most of our long-term clients started with a smaller piece and built on it over the years. One client we worked with from 1999 took that approach. He spent a chunk up front, then a little each year as the business grew. By the time he retired over 20 years later, the work we did with him spanned every version of his business.
Monthly Partnership
For businesses that need an actual marketing team.
For larger or more marketing-mature businesses, we work on a monthly partnership instead of a one-time project. Roughly $500 to $5,000 a month, less than the cost of a single full-time employee. The photography is built in.
For that, you get our entire team. Designers, back-end programmers, search engine experts, social media, photographers, video. Basically your outsourced marketing department, on call, with the camera ready when there is something worth shooting. The pictures stay consistent because the same team that took the first round is the team using them on every campaign, every social post, every print piece.
Most of the time, when we sit down with a marketing-aware business and run the math both ways, the monthly model ends up being the better deal.
Questions
What people ask us before they hire us.
What kinds of photography do you actually do?
Product photography, headshots and team portraits, industrial facility and plant-floor shoots, event coverage, and editorial work for articles and brand pieces. The same team shoots all of it. The setups change, the eye for what the picture is supposed to do does not.
What makes you different from a photographer-owned studio?
Most photography studios in our space are owned by a photographer. Our founder is not. His background is the business side. When you tell him you want a shoot, his first question is what the pictures have to do for the business. Sell more product, recruit better people, win more bids, replace dated images on the homepage. Different goals, different shot lists. The strategy starts from the business side. The pictures come from photographers who are great at their craft.
Do you only shoot in Tulsa?
Most of our shoots are in Tulsa and the surrounding Oklahoma area, but we travel for the work. We have shot industrial facilities out of state and event coverage anywhere a client is opening a location or running a launch. Travel gets quoted into the project.
How long does a shoot take, start to finish?
A focused product or headshot session is usually a single day on site, with edited images back inside two weeks. Industrial or facility shoots that cover multiple buildings or shifts can run two or three days. Editorial work that has to be planned and styled takes longer on the front end. You get a real timeline after the first call.
Will the photos work on my website, social, and print?
Yes. We shoot and deliver in a way that is meant to be reused. You get full-resolution files for print, web-optimized versions for the site, and crops sized for the social platforms your customers actually use.
Do we own the photos when you are done?
You own the final images. We package the edited files at delivery and you can use them anywhere your business needs them. The raw files stay with us as part of our archive in case you ever need a different crop or a re-edit down the road.
Will the pictures help us show up in AI search and on Google?
Half the people researching a vendor today are asking ChatGPT, Claude, or Google's AI Overview. Real photography of your actual products, people, and place gives those tools something concrete to surface alongside your name. We name and tag the files so the AI tools and search engines can recognize your image as the canonical brand picture instead of pulling whatever comes up first.
Got a project? Let's talk.
Fill out the form, send an email, or call. The first conversation is free, and we're not going to beat your door down. We'll tell you what to shoot first, what to skip, and what we'd charge for it. If we're not the right fit for what you're trying to do, we'll tell you that on the first call.