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Commercial Photography Services

St. Louis Commercial Photographer

One production can supply months of marketing content.

Commercial photography for companies across the US, based in St. Louis. Brand and campaign imagery, product photography for catalog and e-commerce, facility and operations coverage, and photography of your workplace and people, all shot by me. When a project needs aerial views, I bring in a licensed drone pilot and direct the shots. Proofs come back fast after the shoot. Send your shot list and locations, and I'll put together a detailed quote.

PlayStation 5 controller product photography by Henry David Photography

What One Shoot Day Produces

Your marketing team stops sourcing pictures

Most commercial shoots get budgeted against one deliverable, then the same images quietly turn up in six other places for the next year. We plan for that on the front end: one visit, shot against the list of places the pictures actually have to go.

Website

Hero bands, section imagery, and the crops a responsive layout needs.

Recruiting and careers

The workplace and culture frames a candidate reads before applying.

Annual report and investor decks

Facility, operations, and leadership imagery at print resolution.

Sales and proposals

Real capability shots that replace the stock in a pitch deck.

Social and campaigns

Vertical and square crops delivered alongside the horizontals.

Trade show and print

Large-format files that hold up at booth scale.

Commercial Photography Services

Four kinds of commercial work, planned and photographed by one person.

Brand and campaign

Imagery planned against every place it has to run: website heroes, campaign and social crops, trade show print and sales decks. When the project needs motion, the brand film is shot on the same visit.

Product

Catalog and e-commerce work through to luxury macro and light painting. For Michel Perchin I photographed the Majesty collection of limited-edition fountain pens in the studio, and those frames now run on the house's own site and in Pen World.

Industrial and operations

Facilities, equipment, fleets and sites, photographed for capability decks, recruiting and the website. I plan the day around production and your site's safety rules. When a project needs aerial views, I bring in a licensed drone pilot and direct the shots.

Corporate and workplace

Your offices, your people and the way work actually happens there, plus headshots and team photos when the same visit can cover them.

Serving the St. Louis Metro

A St. Louis commercial photographer, across the metro and beyond

We photograph commercial work across the St. Louis metro and on-site at your facility, from Clayton and Chesterfield to Maryland Heights, St. Charles, and O'Fallon. For multi-location and national programs, we travel anywhere in the country.

Brand, product, facility and workplace imagery, all from one photographer working to a single standard. I follow your site rules, bring the gear, and handle the logistics. You give us access and we deliver.

The Michel Perchin Majesty collection of limited-edition enamel and diamond fountain pens in a presentation case, product photography by Henry David Photography

Featured Work · Product Photography

Luxury product photography, down to the last diamond

Product work here runs from clean catalog and e-commerce imagery to museum-grade macro of luxury goods. For Michel Perchin we photographed the Majesty collection: four limited-edition fountain pens, twenty-five of each ever made, in enamel, guilloché, and diamond, captured on Carrara marble and into velvet with focus stacking on every nib, clip, and stone.

The same controlled lighting and reflection management that holds a single heirloom piece scales to a full product line for catalog, e-commerce, and campaign use.

“I've been doing this for a long time, and I've seen a lot of pen photography through the years. It's a very difficult discipline, but you do it with aplomb.”
Nicky Pessaroff, Editor-in-Chief, Pen World Magazine, on the Majesty photography

Signature Technique

What is light painting?

Light painting is a photographic technique where the subject is lit by hand, a section at a time, across many separate exposures. Each frame adds a layer of controlled light, and the layers are combined into one image with detail and depth that a single flash exposure does not give you.

Every highlight in the final image comes from real light placed on the real object, which is why it suits cars, instruments and products with complex reflective surfaces.

Commercial Work in Motion

Two light painting productions, filmed as they were made.

Product & Light Painting

Cars, consumer products and branded pieces, each lit for its surface.

Porsche GTS light painting photography by Henry David Photography

Porsche GTS, Dallas | Light Painting

PlayStation 5 DualSense controller product photography by Henry David Photography

PlayStation 5 controller | Product Photography

RubinBrown branded cowbell award and core values product photography by Henry David Photography

RubinBrown | Branded Product Photography

Premium Product Photography

Reflective surfaces, handled with precision

Polished metal, jewelry, chrome, lacquer, and guilloché finishes demand precision lighting to show their finish without distraction. Our approach balances carefully shaped highlights with clean diffusion, so products keep definition and contrast while unwanted reflections disappear.

Luxury watches, fine jewelry, high-end consumer goods: we deliver images that show the craftsmanship of your products.

Close-up of a silver metallic LAMY fountain pen with engraved branding. Premium product photography by Henry David Photography

Corporate Culture & Branding

Your workspace is your brand

Your office is part of how clients and candidates read your company. We photograph it as architecture and as a place where work happens: candid collaboration, the care in the design, and the details that set your culture apart.

For Belden in St. Louis, one production day covered the reception, the boardrooms and an experience center lit by screens, plus a short brand film shot the same day.

Reception at the Belden Customer Innovation Gateway in St. Louis, the dimensional Belden wordmark on a white wall beside a curved blue bench and a wood-panelled welcome display, corporate interior photography by Henry David PhotographyThe skylit boardroom at Belden's St. Louis office under a domed glass ceiling, with a long white table, blue leather chairs and the city beyond the windows, architectural photography by Henry David PhotographyA Belden huddle room in St. Louis with a planted ceiling installation, pendant lamps, a backlit brand sign and a round table with teal and cream chairs, corporate interior photography

Tell us about your project

Products, facilities, brand campaigns, workplaces. Free estimate, no commitment.

Commercial Photography FAQ

Answers to common questions about product, facility, and brand photography.

What does commercial photography include?▼
Brand and campaign imagery, product photography, facility and operations coverage, and workplace photography of your people and spaces. Aerial views are flown by a licensed drone pilot I bring in and direct. Video can be shot on the same visit.
Do you travel for commercial photography?▼
Yes. We cover commercial projects anywhere in the United States and bring all the equipment. Travel and setup are quoted as separate line items on every proposal.
Can you photograph active facilities and job sites?▼
Yes. I work around your operations and follow your site's safety rules and escort requirements. Tell me what the site requires when we scope the project, and the day gets planned around it.
How do you handle multi-location projects?▼
One photographer, one standard. We manage scheduling, travel, and logistics across all your locations so you get consistent imagery everywhere.

Where the work ends up

Not a gallery. Client sites, live right now, running the photography we delivered.

michelperchin.com
Michel Perchin homepage running product photography by Henry David Photography

Michel Perchin

Product and light-painting photography for the luxury pen house, running across the brand's own storefront.

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johnsonkrol.com/who-we-are
Johnson + Krol who we are page showing the firm's eight St. Louis attorneys, photographed by Henry David Photography

Johnson & Krol

Attorney portraits for the labor firm's new St. Louis office, shot to the house style already running on its Chicago and Indiana bios.

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phasefinancial.nm.com/who-we-are/meet-our-team
Phase Financial meet our team page showing the current fifteen-person team composite, photographed by Henry David Photography

Phase Financial

A Northwestern Mutual practice in Clayton whose team photo has been rebuilt with every new hire for about two years.

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everantwealth.com
Everant Wealth homepage running the lounge portrait of founder Drew Forrester, photographed by Henry David Photography

Everant Wealth

A personal branding session shot before the firm existed online, now running across the homepage, the about page, and the physicians page.

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pscderm.com
Precision Skin Care Dermatology homepage running physician photography by Henry David Photography

Precision Skin Care Dermatology

Physician portraits and practice photography for a dermatology group's rebrand, delivered into a new site and a new logo.

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rubinbrown.com/careers-and-culture
RubinBrown careers and culture page running team photography by Henry David Photography

RubinBrown

Culture and team photography for a national accounting and advisory firm, running on the careers pages recruiting reads first.

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Need Commercial Photography?

Tell me what needs photographing (products, facilities, people, or all of them), the locations, where the images will be used, and your timing. I'll build a production plan and a proposal, with travel and setup quoted as separate line items.

Currently booking December 2026 & January 2027.