Photography and video for small business.
Somebody finds your business online. Before they read a single word, they look at the pictures. If all they find is one dark phone photo and a stock image of a shop in another state, they draw a conclusion about you, and it is usually the wrong one.
You do good work. Your pictures should say so. We shoot small business photography and video production across northwest Ohio, then put the results to work on your website, your ads, and your social feed.
What we shootBusiness Headshots · Product Photography · On-Location & Job-Site Shoots · Brand Photos · Short-Form Video · Brand Story Video
Your work looks better than your pictures do.
That is the whole problem with stock photography. It is a picture of a business that is not yours, and customers can tell. Real photos do the opposite. Your building, your crew, your finished job, your product sitting on your own counter. They prove you exist and that you do the work well.
We shoot on professional bodies and lighting, on location, around how you actually run your day. You do not have to close early, clear out the whole shop, or take a day off. A half day covers most businesses, and we work around your customers while you keep working.
Then the pictures go to work everywhere. The same session feeds your website, your paid ads, your social posts, and your printed pieces and signs. Paying for photos once and using them in six places is what makes the math work in your favor.
Photography starts at $750 for a half-day session, and you get full usage rights for web, print, and paid advertising. Working with a local marketing company in Lima, Ohio means we can be at your place in the morning without charging you travel to get there.
Real pictures of real work.
What a shoot gives you
One session covers the range a website and a social feed actually need. Wide shots for page headers, verticals for headshots, and tight detail shots for the parts people want to see up close.
What's included
- Business headshots and team portraits
- Product photography for websites and online stores
- On-location shoots at your shop, office, or job site
- Finished-project and before-and-after galleries
- Brand photography for your website and social feed
- Business event and grand-opening coverage
- Editing, retouching, and web-ready file sizes
- Full usage rights for web, print, and paid ads
Who it's for
Photography is for owners whose business looks better in person than it does online. If you have been putting off a website refresh because you have nothing decent to put on it, or the headshot on your profile is nine years old, start here.
A real-world example
Here is what a half day usually looks like. We start outside with the building and your signage, move to the team, then spend most of the time on the actual work: hands on tools, the product coming together, the finished result. You walk away with a set you can pull from all year instead of hunting for a usable photo every time you need to post something.
Do I really need professional photos, or is stock good enough?
Stock photos show a business that is not yours, and customers can tell. It quietly costs you trust at the exact moment they are deciding. Real photos of your shop, your crew, and your finished work do the opposite: they prove you exist and you do the job well. We shoot them once and then use them across your website, your ads, and your social feed, so one session feeds everything.
Video is how people decide now.
Your customer watches before they call. They want to see the place, hear how you talk, and work out whether you are the kind of business that shows up when it says it will. A page of text cannot answer that. Thirty seconds of video can.
Video production for small business does not have to mean a film crew and a five-figure invoice. Most of what actually works is short. A thirty-second reel, a sixty-second walkthrough of what you sell, a customer saying the thing you cannot say about yourself without sounding like a brochure.
We script it, shoot it, cut it, caption it, and hand it back sized for the platforms you post on. If you are running paid ads or streaming TV spots, we build to those specs from the start, so nothing has to be re-edited before it can run.
Short-form video starts at $600 per piece. Longer brand films are quoted once we know the shot list and where it needs to run.
Video that sounds like you.
What we hand back
Every shoot goes out in both shapes. Wide for your website and streaming TV, vertical for Reels, TikTok, and Shorts, cut from the same footage.
What's included
- Short-form social video for Reels, TikTok, and Shorts
- Product and service walkthrough video
- Brand story and about-us video for your homepage
- Customer testimonial video
- Commercials cut to streaming TV and paid ad specs
- Editing, captions, color, and music licensing
- Vertical and horizontal versions of every cut
Who it's for
Video is for businesses that know they should be posting video and keep not doing it. It is also for anyone with footage sitting on a phone or an old hard drive that nobody has ever edited.
A real-world example
One half-day shoot usually produces enough for six to eight weeks of posting. We film the longer pieces for your website first, then pull the short clips out of that same footage. You stop booking a shoot every time you need something to put up.
Do I need professional video or is phone footage good enough?
Phone footage works for behind-the-scenes content, quick updates, and social stories. Anything that represents your brand for a long time, like a homepage hero, an ad you'll run for months, or a sales explainer, is worth shooting properly. We handle both.
Common questions about websites, ads, social, email, and video
What does a typical website project look like start to finish?
Discovery and scope in week one, wireframes and copy direction in week two, design in weeks three and four, build in weeks four through six, revisions and launch by week seven. A simple site is faster; a complex one with custom features takes longer. We give you a real timeline before we start.
Do I need SEO and ads, or just one?
SEO is the long game. Ads are the fast lane. New businesses usually need ads at first because they have no organic traction yet. Established businesses often need both, with the ratio shifting toward SEO as their organic presence builds. We help you figure out the right mix for your stage.
How much should a small business spend on Google or Meta ads?
It depends on what a customer is worth to you. A service business pulling $5,000 jobs can spend $50 to book one and still come out ahead. A coffee shop selling $5 lattes cannot. We start by figuring out what a customer is worth, then back into a budget that makes the math work. More on this in the Paid Ads + Local Search service.
Who manages our social media accounts day-to-day?
Depends on scope. For full management, Mel and her crew handle posting, replies, and stories. For lighter engagements, we set up the strategy and content calendar and your team executes it. Either way you stay in the driver's seat on voice and big decisions.
Do you write the content or do I have to?
We do. Writing is part of every package unless you specifically want to do it yourself. We send drafts in plain English, you review and edit, we publish. The goal is to sound like you, not like an agency wrote it.
What's the difference between you and a freelance web designer?
A freelancer hands you a website. We hand you a website, a hosting setup, an analytics dashboard, and ongoing support when something breaks. We're also the same team that can do your branding, your print materials, your ad campaigns, and anything else, so the work stays consistent.
The people shooting italso run the marketing.
Most photographers hand you a folder of files and wish you luck. What you do with them is your problem. So the shots come back beautiful and vertical, your website needs them wide, and half the set never gets used.
We shoot knowing exactly where every frame is going, because we are the ones putting it there. The homepage needs a wide hero. The ad needs room for a headline. The reel has to work with the sound off. We plan the shot list around that, then hand back files already sized and named for the job.
That is what you get when your photos come from the same crew that builds your site and runs your ads. One shoot, one conversation, and nothing gets wasted.
Need more than pictures?
Every project we do touches all three squads at some point. Here's where the others live, plus the full cast.
Let's get your business looking like itself.
Tell us what you do and what you need shot. We'll be in touch within 24 hours.