Why Web Agencies Should Offer Photography Too

In web project meetings, the question often comes up: “What are we doing about photos?” And sometimes the client answers, “We’ll provide them.”

But when you consider the quality of the finished website, there are real advantages to including photography in your proposal.

You control how the design turns out

Designing without knowing what the photos will be is hard. A layout that looked beautiful with placeholder images can feel completely different once the real photos go in — and that’s not unusual.

If you plan from the shoot onwards, you can create assets to fit the design: a landscape image here, a person there, negative space for text over here.

You can offer more

If clients can come to you not only for the website but for photography, video, social assets, company brochures and advertising, it makes life simpler for them too.

That doesn’t mean a web agency has to build its own photography team. You can partner with an external team only on projects that need one.

The idea of a photography partner

LS STUDIO is happy to take on just the photography for web agencies and design studios — joining only the shoots a project needs, handling photos and video together, or covering on-location shoots in Kyoto.

We’re not trying to win work away from web agencies. We want to be the photography partner that helps them build better websites. That’s the kind of relationship we value.