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Commercial

Four kinds of work, and they are genuinely different jobs. Pick the one that sounds like what you need.

Trends move and styles move. What does not move is whatever is actually true about your product, your project, or you. That is the thing we point the camera at, and it is the reason this work still looks like your business two years after the shoot.

We are Brooke and Michael, out of Traverse City. Much of our work is around Northern Michigan, but we have shot all over the world. If you have a wild idea, we want to hear about it.

Commercial Portraits

You, photographed at work, looking like yourself.

Not a headshot template. We photograph you on location, or somewhere that is important to the work, and we build the session around what you actually do.

Book this if you are a creator, a business owner, a musician, or if you have been putting off replacing a photo you do not like.

Commercial portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Commercial portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Commercial portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Commercial portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Commercial portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Commercial portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Commercial portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Commercial portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Commercial portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Commercial portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Commercial portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Commercial portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City

Travel Events

Multi-day work, on location, wherever it runs.

We come along for the whole thing and sink into the community and culture of your group. We photograph all of it, especially the unplanned parts.

This set is from a food and wine tour in Tuscany, including a private cooking class in a private villa.

Travel event photography by Allen-Kent Photography
Travel event photography by Allen-Kent Photography
Travel event photography by Allen-Kent Photography
Travel event photography by Allen-Kent Photography
Travel event photography by Allen-Kent Photography
Travel event photography by Allen-Kent Photography
Travel event photography by Allen-Kent Photography
Travel event photography by Allen-Kent Photography
Travel event photography by Allen-Kent Photography
Travel event photography by Allen-Kent Photography
Travel event photography by Allen-Kent Photography
Travel event photography by Allen-Kent Photography

Branding and Marketing Images

A library your business can pull from all year.

One shoot, and you come away with enough frames to keep a website, a feed and an ad set going for months.

We plan these around what you actually publish. If your feed needs verticals, we shoot verticals. If your site has a wide header, we leave room in the frame for the text that goes over it.

Branding photography by Allen-Kent Photography, Northern Michigan
Branding photography by Allen-Kent Photography, Northern Michigan
Branding photography by Allen-Kent Photography, Northern Michigan
Branding photography by Allen-Kent Photography, Northern Michigan
Branding photography by Allen-Kent Photography, Northern Michigan
Branding photography by Allen-Kent Photography, Northern Michigan
Branding photography by Allen-Kent Photography, Northern Michigan
Branding photography by Allen-Kent Photography, Northern Michigan
Branding photography by Allen-Kent Photography, Northern Michigan
Branding photography by Allen-Kent Photography, Northern Michigan
Branding photography by Allen-Kent Photography, Northern Michigan
Branding photography by Allen-Kent Photography, Northern Michigan

Unique Staff Portraits

Your whole team, without the beige backdrop.

We photograph everyone in one visit, in the same light, so the set hangs together on an about page instead of looking like eleven different years.

We take the time to get to know each of your people, and photograph the real person standing there.

Staff portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Staff portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Staff portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Staff portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Staff portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Staff portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Staff portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Staff portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Staff portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Staff portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Staff portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City
Staff portrait by Allen-Kent Photography, Traverse City

Michael and Brooke capture the essence of our in person events and make our guest experiences come to life! They've traveled with us across the globe for retreats and culinary tours and their commitment to excellence is unparalleled.

Megan Gunnell, Gunnell Innovation Culinary Tours

How commercial work runs

Every one of these is quoted on its own, because the four jobs above do not take the same day.

What we need first

What your images are for, where they will run, and how many you need. That decides the length of the shoot more than anything else does.

The shoot

On location, in real light, usually with Michael. Multi-day work and large teams get a second photographer.

Afterward

A first look one to one and a half weeks out, and the finished set within 90 days. Most jobs land well inside that.

When you are ready

Tell us what you need shot.

If one of those four is the job, say what it is for and roughly when, and we will talk through what it takes and what it costs.

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