FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions.

Yes. Our creative team is based in San Francisco and Oakland, California. We regularly photograph projects for clients throughout the USA and all over the world. Have Cameras + Will Travel. Everywhere on Earth.

Can you provide multiple photographers for a project?

Yes. We can scale the size of our creative team to meet the needs of any project. We can provide multiple photographers, production managers, on-site digital editors, photo assistants, stylists, and additional personnel to meet your project’s needs.

Can you provide same-day rush delivery of images?

Yes. Our instant same-day rush delivery is ideal for social media, press release, media use, and publication deadlines that simply can’t wait until tomorrow. Our on-site digital editor will coordinate with your marketing, publication, or media team. We will curate, edit, and deliver images to you in near real-time as the photographs are created. *A digital editor is required for same-day instant delivery. This extra person on our creative team can be included in any photo package.

What is your experience? Who are some of your clients?

Drew Bird and our creative team have more than 10 years experience producing photo stories for clients all over the world. Our clientele include brands, corporations, philanthropic foundations, magazines, news agencies, yoga studios, motion picture studios, outdoor adventure clothing brands, boutique coffee roasters, universities, NBA Franchises, independent schools, advertising agencies, branding firms, non-profit organizations, government agencies, record labels, book publishers, and business in search of powerful and unique photography. See our client list below.

What is your Photography Style? Will you bring lighting to the project?

Storytelling is the currency of our style. We create visual photo stories for our clients so that they can have powerful images to tell their story to the world (or whoever their target audience might be).

Our style is natural and genuine including a blend of photojournalism, lifestyle, editorial, and documentary style photography. The images we create will be authentic and always aim to embody the character, energy, and essence of the experience.

We also have a unique style for creating powerful portraits, professional headshots, editorial portraits, executive portraits, and for personal branding photography. Our team also has many years of experience creating more stylized photos for advertising and marketing clients and for food photography and product photography projects.

Yes, we have an incredible collection of off-camera flash equipment, light modifiers, light reflectors, and other lighting gear that help us to create any type of lighting profile needed to fit the project.

Can you come to our offices to do headshots?

Yes. We have an incredible mobile headshot and portrait setup that we can bring to your offices to do executive portraits and professional headshots for your team, employees, and staff. We’ll bring lights with us. We can choose either a blank studio backdrop or a nice architectural feature (more natural and modern) blurred out background. Learn more about our corporate Headshots and Portraits services here.

Do you have COVID-19 Safety Policies and are you currently booking new projects?

Yes. Absolutely. We have resumed a full photo schedule and we have developed some very comprehensive safety protocols based on the guidelines provided by the best available science from The State of California, The Centers For Disease Control, and the World Health Organization. Some of these guidelines include:

Pre-screening of all participants prior to the photo date(s)
Everyone must wear facemasks at all times when on site (exceptions made for those being photographed, of course)
Practice social distancing at all times whenever possible
Frequent hand sanitizing and washing
Frequent disinfecting of all surfaces on site
Air purifiers and ventilation for any indoor projects
Limiting the number of people inside same room at any one time
Please ask us for the full list of protocols (there are more)

Do you do video, too?

Yes. We are primarily a still photography company. We can provide video storytelling to accommodate most requests, as long as we are already doing a still photo project for you. Video services are an add-on service that will have a separate cost as a separate line item. For more involved video projects, we partner with some talented videographers who can be included on our team as part of any storytelling package.

What is your pricing?

Every project is unique. Get in touch with us for a custom quote. We’ll set up a complimentary consultation in order to better understand your project and to put together a custom proposal.

Do you ever do photography for independent schools, private schools, or universities?

Yes, we do photo storytelling for independent schools, private schools, and universities. We normally provide these education clients with a type of lifestyle and documentary style photography to create a powerful collection of day-in-the-life style images that the schools then use for their own marketing, advertising, recruitment, fundraising, and as an historical archive. We have an entirely separate website for education photography services.

Can you arrive on-site for the project a day early? Do you do site visits or location scouting?

Yes. For our bigger projects, we often arrive on-site a day early to meet the client’s creative team, do a walk through of the project or event site, to procure any credentials or badges, and to set up our editing room (if part of the project). Arriving a day early for pre-planning can be added into any project.

And yes, we also provide location scouting. We can add location scouting days into any project package, depending on your needs.

What happens after the shoot? How do I get my images?

Final edited images are nearly always delivered via a digital download link sent to you via email.

Culling, editing, and optimizing of RAW files into final deliverable JPGs is a huge part of the creative storytelling process and is also very time intensive. For most projects, we will spend roughly 2 hours in post-production for every 1 hour of active photography time. So, a project that involved 10 hours of photography time will require roughly 20 hours of computer time to finish the photo story.

Editing and delivery timelines are customized based on the needs of your project. If you choose standard delivery: most projects have a turn around time of approximately two weeks. But this does depend on the scale of the project.

We also offer rush delivery options (next day, third day, etc.).

If you choose our Instant Same Day delivery and include an on-site editor, we’ll be able to deliver finished images to you in near real-time.

Can you show me an example of some projects you’ve done recently?

Yes. You can view some recent projects here.

New York University

Science Magazine (AAAS)

Left Coast Power Yoga

MGM Las Vegas

Moscone Center

Ridge Merino

Langham Sydney

Ad:Tech

General Electric

Forbes

Gilead Sciences

Quirk Creative

WordPress

IBM

Essie Justice Group

Visit Oakland

Curve Magazine

Code For America

Grace Potter

Capital One

Cvent Connect

Corepower Yoga

Cisco Live

Dreamforce

Facing History And Ourselves

Duke University

City of San Francisco

Book Your Project

Get in touch for a custom quote

Let’s create a photo story together. Contact us with a description of your project and potential dates. We’ll set up a complimentary consultation in order to better understand your project needs.