Photography and video, shot for where it will actually run.
SEMPITE produces commercial photography and video for small businesses and personal brands: product and portrait stills, brand films, and vertical video cut for TikTok, Reels, Shorts and paid ads. Half-day shoots start at $900, full days at $1,600, and product photography at $40 per finished image.
A shoot that ignores its destination produces beautiful files nobody can use. We plan a shot list against the feeds, the ads and the pages the work has to fill, then deliver it cropped, named and formatted for each of them.
Most small brands are shooting for a format that no longer exists.
Horizontal hero images, one product angle, a single headshot from four years ago. Meanwhile the placements that matter are vertical, fast and hungry: a feed wants dozens of assets a month, an ad account needs fresh hooks before fatigue sets in, and a product page converts on the fourth angle, not the first. The fix is planning the shoot around the output.
Shot, edited and delivered ready to publish.
Product and commercial photography
Built for the product page and the ad account.
- Clean studio-style stills on white or in context
- Multiple angles, scale shots and detail crops
- Lifestyle frames for ads and social
- Consistent look across an entire catalog
Portrait, headshot and brand photography
For the person who is the brand.
- Headshots for actors, musicians and founders
- Environmental portraits shot where you work
- Press and EPK images that hold up at full size
- Coordinated with your personal brand work
Vertical video for social and ads
The format the feed and the ad platforms reward.
- Short-form video cut for TikTok, Reels and Shorts
- Multiple hooks and edits from a single shoot day
- Captions burned in, sound designed, thumbnails cut
- Delivered in the aspect ratios each placement wants
Post, retouching and search-ready delivery
Where most production hands off and we do not.
- Color, retouching and consistent grading
- Web-optimized formats and sizes, not 12MB originals
- Filenames, alt text and captions written for search and AI
- Uploaded and placed on your site if we host it
Half day from $900 · full day from $1,600 · product photography from $40 per image
One shoot day should feed a whole quarter.
We start from what the content has to do: a campaign launch, a product catalog, a month of posts, a press kit. From there comes a shot list designed to produce many finished assets from one day, then the shoot, then post and delivery. If SEMPITE also runs your social or buys your ads, the same library feeds both and nothing is shot twice.
For brands that have run out of things to post.
Product sellers who need a catalog shot properly, service businesses that have been reusing the same four photos since launch, actors and musicians who need current images, and anyone about to start paid social without a single asset made for it. New York area shoots are standard; travel is quoted case by case.
Straight answers on production.
Where do you shoot, and do you travel?
The New York area is standard, on location at your space or in a rented studio when the job needs one. Travel outside the area is quoted case by case and billed at cost.
What do I actually receive at the end?
Finished, retouched, web-optimized files in the formats and crops your placements need, plus the filenames and alt text written out. If SEMPITE hosts your site we upload and place them for you.
Do I get the raw files?
Selects are delivered finished as standard, which is what almost everyone actually uses. Full raw archives can be included, and that is agreed in the quote before the shoot rather than negotiated afterward.
Can you shoot content specifically for ads?
Yes, and it is the best reason to book a day. A shoot planned against an ad account produces many hooks and variants at once, which is exactly what paid social burns through.
Do you do actor headshots and musician press photos?
Yes. Those sit alongside the personal brand work, where the images, the profiles and the search results are handled as one job rather than four separate vendors.
The rest of the creative work, from the same desk.
SEMPITE handles the creative side and the search side together, which is the whole point: the ads, the photography, the feed and the design are built from the same data and by the same person.