We use stock photos
Half the category uses the same images. A visitor does not see us, they see the same library they have seen everywhere else.
Services / photo and video
Photo and video that show the business as it really is
Real photographs and video of your people, your space and your products, shot for the places they will be published.
Photography for the site and the store
Video for social media
Agreed usage rights
Half the industry uses the same stock photos
Four sentences we hear almost every week
An image is the first thing a visitor sees and the only thing they do not have to read. It settles the question of trust before any of the text does.
We shoot products on a phone
In the store every product sits on a different background in different light. The catalog looks unfinished.
We want video but do not know how
We know we need it for social. We do not know what should be in it or who should film it.
The photos are too heavy
The images look good and the page loads slowly because of them. Nobody prepared them for the web.
If one of those sounds familiar, we deal with it on the intro call: fifteen minutes, no obligation.
Book an intro call →What we shoot
- Products for the storesame background, same light
- People and the spaceso the site does not look borrowed
- Video for socialshort, and built around a purpose
- Prepared for the webin every size you will need
How a shoot is prepared
Material people actually notice
From the concept through the shoot to the final edit, we produce visual material for the site, for advertising and for social media.
Business photography
Product photography
Video ads
Company video
Editing and colour grading
Formats for social media
What photography does not fix
Photography does not replace the offer
Good images will not sell a product nobody is looking for, and they will not fix a price that is not competitive. They do decide whether a store looks like a serious business or not.
So before the shoot we ask where the images will be used. The same subject for a catalog, an ad and a social post usually needs a different frame, format and edit.
Everything we shoot is also prepared for the web, so the site does not get slower because of it. You receive the agreed usage rights together with the files.
From the brief to published photographs
Four steps from the brief to published photographs
- 1
Agreeing the purpose
Where the images will be used and what they have to show. Everything else follows from that.
- 2
Preparation
We agree the subjects, the backgrounds and the shot list, so no time is lost on the day.
- 3
The shoot
We shoot what was agreed and a little more, so you have options for uses you have not thought of yet.
- 4
Editing and handover
We edit, prepare for the web, and hand over in every size you need.
You receive an itemized proposal the same or at the latest the next working day after the intro call.
Usage rights come with the files →Four steps to published photographs
- Purposewhere the images will be used
- Preparationshot list and backgrounds
- The shootwhat was agreed, and a little more
- Prepared for the webso the site does not get slower
Why Aithena
Four reasons, and one is that stock photos cost more than they look
A supplier photo is not yours. It is the same one ten other companies in your category are using.
The material is made at your place, for you.
The photographs and video are made at your premises, with your products and your people. That is the one difference a competitor cannot copy.
We shoot for the places the material will run.
Horizontal for the site, vertical for social, a crop for the ad. Agree that before the shoot and one day produces material for several months.
We prepare the material all the way to publication.
Editing, sizing and web compression are part of the job. An eight megabyte photograph is beautiful and also the reason the page does not open.
For Magnesium Diasporal we produced a TV commercial using AI.
It ran on national television. When filming is too expensive or simply not possible, we can produce part of the material another way, and we say in advance where the limits of that route are.
Tell us what you sell and where the material will be published. On the call we will say how many shooting days that actually takes.
Book an intro call →What stands out about Aithena is the professionalism, the knowledge and the ideas. Client needs are understood quickly.
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What you receive
After the work you have your own photographs, not bought ones.
Stock images look like everyone else. Your own photographs are the only ones a competitor cannot have.
Immediately
Agreement on what the material is for
We settle where the photographs will be used, because a catalog shot and an ad shot are not the same picture.
During the work
Preparation and the shoot
We prepare the products, the space and the light so the whole set looks like one set.
At handover
Files in the right sizes
You get edited photographs prepared for the website, the store and social media.
Fit
Let us also say when it is not worth it
We would rather tell you openly when a service is not right for you than have you spend money on something that will not work.
Good fit
Worth doing if
- you sell products a buyer judges from a picture
- your site currently uses stock photography
- you need one consistent look across site, catalog and ads
Wrong timing
Wait if
- the products are not ready yet
- you need a single shot for one social post
- you expect photographs to make up for the offer itself
Questions
Short and clear answers
Including the ones with an uncomfortable answer. If we judge that a shoot is not worth it for you, we say so before the proposal.
Question not on the list?
Scope and purpose decide it: how many products or spaces have to be shot, whether a set has to be prepared, and whether video comes with the photography. After the intro call you receive an itemized proposal the same or at the latest the next working day. Indicative prices for every service are on the price list.
You receive the agreed usage rights with the files, stated in the proposal, and they are not limited in time for the purposes we agree. Where a person appears on camera, the rights for their appearance are written down separately, because those belong to them rather than to the footage.
Yes. Every shot comes in a print-ready size and in a web-ready version, so the site does not get slower because of the images. It is the step people skip, and it is why good photographs end up slowing a store down.
Yes, mostly short pieces for social media and the website. Before filming we agree what the video has to say, because that decides everything else.
At your premises or at a location we agree. We do not run a studio, so we shoot where the product or the service actually exists, which usually works better for the web anyway.
It depends on the number of products and spaces. If we agree in advance where the material will be used, one day usually produces enough for several months.
Yes. Editing, sizing and web compression are part of the job. An eight megabyte photograph is beautiful and also the reason a page does not open.
Yes. Vertical crops and short pieces for Instagram, Facebook and TikTok come out of the same shoot, provided we agree it in advance.
Book a call
Tell us where you are and we will set up a call
The intro call takes about fifteen minutes. We look at your situation and say what is worth doing first.
You receive an itemized proposal the same or at the latest the next working day after the call, not a week later with different numbers. If we judge that the service is not worth it for you, we say so before the proposal.
- We reply every day between 9:00 and 21:00 Central European Time
- No lock-in and no subscription to talk
- If we cannot help you, we say so straight away
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