I’m a commercial photographer based in Colorado Springs, working with agencies, in-house marketing teams, and businesses nationwide. My work covers advertising campaigns, product launches, corporate photography, editorial assignments, and ongoing brand content across industries including automotive, outdoor recreation, hospitality, food and beverage, and manufacturing.
Every project starts with the same question: what does this image need to accomplish for your business? The answer shapes everything from creative direction to final deliverables. If you’re evaluating commercial photographers, the pages below break down each service by what it covers, who it’s for, and how the process works.
Images built for paid media, print campaigns, billboards, digital ad sets, and branded content. Advertising photography is produced to a brief with exact specifications for format, messaging, and usage rights. Every element in the frame is intentional. I work with agencies and in-house marketing teams on campaigns where the photography is the creative, not just a supporting element. Past advertising work includes multi-day productions for fitness technology brands, beverage companies, and outdoor recreation equipment manufacturers.
The broad category for any image created for business use. Product launches, website overhauls, annual reports, trade show materials, sales collateral, investor decks. Commercial photography also covers the work that other categories don’t neatly fit into: facility documentation for a construction company’s bid package, team culture photography for a recruiting push, or a full visual content library built across a two-day shoot. I’ve shot for tourism operators, national food brands, telecom infrastructure companies, construction firms, and manufacturers ranging from local operations to national distribution.
Visual content for companies that operate at scale. Executive portraits, leadership team headshots, office environment photography, corporate event coverage, and annual report imagery. Corporate photography serves HR departments building employer branding, PR teams managing executive visibility, and marketing departments maintaining consistent visual identity across divisions. The work is structured, efficient, and delivered in the formats corporate teams actually use.
Your product, photographed for the context where it sells. Clean white-background e-commerce shots for Amazon listings, styled lifestyle images showing the product in use, creative compositions for packaging and advertising. Product shoots range from single items on a tabletop to full-day campaigns with models and locations. For clients outside Colorado, I offer a ship-to-studio workflow where you send products directly to me and I handle the rest. Deliverables are formatted for whatever platform you’re selling on.
Professional portraits for individuals and teams. Executive headshots for leadership pages, staff directory photos, LinkedIn profiles, speaker bios, and personal branding. Sessions can be shot at your office, on location, or in studio depending on what fits the brand. Team sessions are structured so nobody waits around longer than they need to, and final images are delivered in formats ready for web, print, and social platforms.
Photography for magazines, publications, branded editorial content, and long-form storytelling assignments. Editorial work requires a different eye than advertising. The images need to feel real while still being composed, lit, and directed. I bring a commercial production standard to editorial assignments, which means the images hold up in print and digital at any size. If you’re a publication or a brand producing editorial-style content, this is the category.
Fast-moving subjects in unpredictable environments. Outdoor recreation, adventure sports, motorsports, fitness brands, and athletic events. Action photography requires specialized technique, fast glass, and the willingness to be in the same conditions as the subject. This is not the kind of work where you set up a tripod and wait. I’ve shot mountain biking, motorsports, aerial adventure tours, and outdoor brand campaigns across the western United States.
Restaurant menus, packaged products, craft beverage programs, culinary brand campaigns, and food product advertising. Food photography serves restaurants, bakeries, breweries, food trucks, and packaged food brands. It covers everything from styled hero shots for advertising to the casual in-environment images that fill a Google Business Profile or Instagram feed. I’ve shot for national franchise brands like Cold Stone Creamery and TacoTime as well as independent local restaurants and specialty food producers.
Photography for industries that don’t think of themselves as visual. Construction progress documentation, manufacturing processes, utility infrastructure, warehouse operations, field crews at work. Industrial photography shows investors, clients, and regulators what’s actually happening on site. It also gives your sales and marketing teams images that represent the real work your company does. I’ve shot for companies in construction, telecommunications, surveying, and general contracting.
Interior and exterior photography for residential and commercial listings. Clean, accurate, well-lit images that make properties look like themselves on their best day. Includes HDR interiors, exterior curb appeal shots, and drone aerials for properties where lot size and surroundings matter. Deliverables are MLS-ready and formatted for Zillow, Realtor.com, and brokerage listing platforms. Vacation rental owners, resort properties, and property management companies also fall into this category.
Most of my work falls into five industry verticals. Each one involves different production requirements, different buyer expectations, and different ways the final images get used. I’ve linked to dedicated industry pages below where they exist.
Cars, motorcycles, UTVs, off-road vehicles, and the brands that build, sell, and market them. Automotive photography crosses into advertising, lifestyle, and action depending on the project. I’ve shot adventure tour vehicles in canyon country and powersports equipment for manufacturer marketing teams. If the vehicle is the product or the vehicle is part of the brand story, this is the category.
Outdoor apparel, gear, and lifestyle brands that need images showing their products in real conditions. Adventure photography means shooting on location in the environments where the product actually lives, not in a studio with a backdrop that suggests it. This vertical also covers expedition and travel work for brands building content around exploration, fitness, and outdoor culture.
Hotels, resorts, vacation rentals, tourism boards, tour operators, and destination marketing organizations. Hospitality photography covers rooms, amenities, dining, activities, guest experience, and the surrounding environment. I’ve shot multi-day campaigns for resort properties and adventure tourism operators across the western United States. One production can generate a full year of marketing content.
Restaurants, breweries, distilleries, food product companies, and CPG brands. This vertical covers both the styled advertising shots and the environmental images that show the people, spaces, and processes behind the product. National franchise brands and independent local businesses both fall into this category.
Construction, telecommunications, manufacturing, utilities, and infrastructure. Companies in these sectors are consistently the most underserved when it comes to professional visual content. The shoots are logistically complex, but the images serve real business purposes: bid packages, investor materials, safety documentation, recruitment, and marketing.
Most commercial photography projects follow four stages. The specifics change based on scale and industry, but the structure stays the same.
Every project starts with a phone call or meeting where I ask what the photos need to accomplish. Not what style you like or what your competitor’s website looks like, but what business outcome these images are supporting. A hotel launching a new booking page has different needs than a manufacturer updating a product catalog, even if both technically need commercial photography.
Once the scope is clear, I build a shot list and production plan. That includes locations, timing, talent needs, styling or prop requirements, and a realistic schedule for the shoot day. You see the plan before I shoot. If something doesn’t make sense for your budget or timeline, I adjust before anyone picks up a camera.
Shoot days are structured and efficient. You’ll know what I’m capturing, in what order, and roughly how long each setup takes. Most commercial projects run a half day or a full day, though multi-day campaigns are common for hospitality, tourism, and large-scale product work.
Edited images are delivered in the formats your team actually needs. High-resolution files for print, web-optimized versions for your site, platform-specific crops for social media. Turnaround depends on volume, but most projects deliver within two to three weeks. Rush delivery is available when deadlines require it.
Pricing is project-based. There is no standard hourly rate because a one-hour headshot session and a multi-day advertising campaign are fundamentally different types of work with different planning, equipment, and post-production requirements.
Factors that affect pricing include the length of the shoot, the number of final edited images, production complexity (locations, talent, styling, permits), and the usage rights needed. A set of staff headshots for your company website costs less than an advertising campaign with images licensed for national print distribution. Both are reasonable, and both are priced to reflect what’s actually involved.
If you have a budget range in mind, say so early. It helps us both figure out what’s realistic before anyone wastes time. I publish a more detailed breakdown of how commercial photography pricing works on my pricing guide page.
My home base is in Colorado Springs, CO. I serve businesses throughout the Front Range, including Denver, Monument, Castle Rock, Fountain, Woodland Park, and Pueblo. For product photography, I offer a ship-to-studio workflow where clients anywhere in the country send products directly to me.
For on-location work outside Colorado, I travel. I’ve shot projects across the Southwest, throughout Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and for national brands in multiple states. Travel logistics and costs are scoped during the planning phase so there are no surprises. If the project is right, geography isn’t a barrier.
Most commercial projects book two to four weeks out. Larger campaigns with multiple locations or talent coordination may need six to eight weeks of lead time. Rush projects are possible depending on availability.
That’s a normal starting point. The initial conversation is designed to figure out what your business actually needs, not to take an order. Many clients come in knowing they need “better photos” without a detailed shot list, and that’s fine.
Yes. I offer video production services alongside photography. Many clients combine photo and video into a single shoot day to get the most out of their production budget.
Usage rights are included in every project quote and defined clearly in the contract. Most business clients receive full digital usage rights for web, social media, and print marketing. Extended licensing for advertising campaigns, national distribution, or third-party use is quoted separately based on scope.
Yes. The majority of commercial photography happens on location at the client’s facility, property, or project site. Studio work is available for product photography, headshots, and controlled-environment shoots.
Edited, color-corrected final images in the file formats your team needs. High-resolution masters for print, web-ready versions, and platform-specific crops are standard. Raw or unedited files are not included in standard delivery.
Yes. I work with ad agencies, creative agencies, and marketing firms as a hired photographer on client campaigns. I’m comfortable working from an agency brief with art direction provided, or handling creative direction independently when the agency needs that from me. Usage rights, deliverable specs, and timelines are scoped to the agency’s campaign requirements.
If you know what you need, reach out with the details. If you’re not sure yet, that’s a fine place to start too. Most of the best projects begin with a short phone call where I can figure out what actually matters.