Pricing · Clapton, East London
what everything costs.
Fixed prices where the session is fixed, and honest starting points where a project has to be quoted. We are not VAT registered, so nothing is added on top of any figure on this page.
Individuals
For the person in front of the camera.
Fixed scope, fixed price, booked as a session. Actors, professionals and anyone who needs a picture that looks like them on a good day.
Headshots
Headshots from £275.
Studio sessions at Cell Studios in Clapton. Every package includes a private proof gallery, high-resolution and web-ready files, and delivery within two weeks.
| Session | Price | Time | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essential | £275 | 45 minutes | 1 outfit, 1 setup, 2 fully retouched |
| Signature · most booked | £350 | 90 minutes | Up to 3 outfits, 2 setups, 4 fully retouched |
| Headshot Plus | £475 | 2 hours | Up to 4 outfits, 3 setups, 6 fully retouched |
The Essential session is also available as a corporate booking. Same price, same deliverable.
Creative portraits
Creative portraits from £475.
Shot mainly on medium format film, digital when the concept calls for it. Creative lighting, colour and projection are included as direction, not as an upsell.
| Session | Price | Time | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium format film | £650 | Up to 3 hours | Up to 4 outfits, 3 setups. Developed and contact sheeted at Rapid Eye, 6 frames scanned and retouched, digital shot alongside and delivered unretouched. Around 3 weeks. |
| Digital | £475 | Up to 3 hours | Up to 4 outfits, 3 setups, 6 fully retouched, private gallery within 5 working days |
Film is unpredictable, which is the point. Frame selection is made together from the contact sheets.
| Add-on | Price |
|---|---|
| Extra scanned and retouched frame | £45 |
| Extra retouched digital image | £35 |
| Second person, includes 2 extra finals | +£75 |
| Hair and make-up | On request |
Companies & brands
For teams, brands and briefs.
Team headshots that match, and commercial work built around a brief, a licence and a deadline.
Corporate headshots
Teams from £600.
The lighting setup is kept on file, so new starters match the existing team later. Every team booking includes 2 retouched per person, individual selection galleries and a two-week turnaround.
| Booking | Price | Who it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Small team | from £600 | 2 to 5 people |
| Half day | from £850 | Around 6 to 15 people |
| Full day | from £1,400 | 15 to 30 people |
| 30 or more, or multiple sites | Bespoke | Quoted against the brief |
One person
| Where | Price | What changes |
|---|---|---|
| At the studio | £275 | 45 minutes, one look, 2 retouched, gallery in 5 days |
| At your office | £400 | The same session at your office |
The studio session is the same shoot as our Essential headshot. Same time, same deliverable, same price. The difference is only where it happens.
On location, £400. The same session at your office. The difference covers travel, setup and teardown.
London zones 1 to 3 included. Anything further is quoted.
One person. Two or more on location starts at the small team rate.
Commercial & campaign
Commercial work is quoted, not listed.
Every campaign is priced against its own brief. Scope, production and usage all move the figure, and no two jobs land in the same place.
What moves the number
Shoot days. Motion and stills together or stills alone. Talent and casting. Hair and make-up. Location, studio and permits. Retouching volume. And above all, usage: where the images run, for how long, and in which territories.
How the quote arrives
Tell us what you are making, where it will run and for how long. You will get a full quote with production costs and licensing set out as separate lines, so you can see exactly what you are paying for.
Copyright
Copyright is retained unless assigned in writing. Assignment is priced separately.
Creatives, models & performers
For people whose work is the picture.
Agency-ready tests, portfolio days, brand shoots, artist press shoots and performer work. Some of it is a fixed session. Some of it depends on who is paying.
Model portfolios
Model tests from £350.
Tests that build real range, and agency-format digitals when you need them. Studio at Cell Studios in Clapton.
| Session | Price | Time | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Model test | £350 | 90 minutes | 2 to 3 looks, 4 fully retouched |
| Model Test Plus | £475 | 2 hours | 7 fully retouched |
| Full portfolio day | from £650 | 4 hours | 10 fully retouched plus digitals |
| Agency digitals | £175 | 45 minutes | 10 digitals to agency spec. Unretouched, agency-format images for models actively submitting to representation. |
Add agency digitals to any test, £95. Shot in the same session, delivered to agency spec. Booked on their own they are £175.
Personal brand
Brand shoots from £650.
For founders, creatives and independent business. These are the starting points; the final figure follows the locations, the day and the number of finals.
| Package | From | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal Brand Portrait | from £650 | Up to 90 mins | One location, ten final images |
| Brand Story | from £1,100 | Up to 3 hrs | Two locations, around thirty finals |
| Brand Content Day | from £1,750 | Up to 6 hrs | Three locations, fifty to sixty finals |
| Brand Campaign | from £2,250 | By brief | Concept-led, multi-day where the brief needs it |
Music
Music, two ways in.
Which route you are on depends on who is paying for the shoot, not on how big the release is.
Independent and self-releasing artists
Independent means you are paying for the shoot yourself, with no label or distributor budget behind it.
| Shoot | Creative fee from | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Press shoot | from £750 | Up to 3 hrs | One artist, studio or a single location |
| Release day | from £1,750 | Up to 8 hrs | Press, artwork and content shot together |
Press shoots at £750 cover press, streaming profiles and your own channels. Anything running as paid advertising, in print or out of home is licensed separately.
Larger releases, campaigns and anything with motion are quoted against the brief, whoever is paying.
Signed, label-represented or management-funded
Quoted against the brief, the release plan and the usage.
Drag & performer
Performer shoots from £650.
Same split as music. A performer paying out of their own pocket and a production with a budget are not the same booking.
Performers booking themselves
Performer shoots from £650. Final cost by scope and usage.
Productions, venues and theatres
Poster and key art for theatre and cabaret productions quoted against the brief and the run.
The small print
What is and is not included.
No VAT
We are not VAT registered, so a fixed price is the price you pay. Extra retouched images on studio sessions are £35 each. The studio at Cell Studios is included on every fixed-price session.
Quoted separately
Retouching beyond what the session includes, hair and make-up, travel outside London zones 1 to 3, and usage are quoted separately. Nothing is added to a figure on this page without you seeing it first.
Ask anyway
If your budget does not match a line on this page, say what it is and what you need. You will get an honest answer rather than a quote you were never going to accept.
Starting rates. No VAT. Retouching, hair and make-up, location and usage are quoted separately.