The work behind your business, and the welcome in front of it.

Photography and websites for independent businesses in Oxfordshire.

A mechanic in a beanie and safety glasses lifting a new exhaust silencer into place under a car

How I work

It starts with a conversation

First, we talk.

Before I pick up a camera I want to know where your business is going and how you want to be seen by the people you are trying to reach.

Then I photograph both sides.

Behind the scenes: the skill, grit and determination your customers never get to see. And what those customers come to you for: the product, the service, the welcome, the connection. All of it shown the way you want your business to be portrayed.

Then you get pictures you can use.

Every image is edited in a style we choose together, and made ready for your website, your Facebook page and anywhere else you need to be seen.

And I can keep it fresh.

If you would like, I can add regular updates to your website: a short piece on what you are working on, with new pictures to go with it.

Work

A working garage

A mechanic photographed during ordinary jobs: the hands, the tools and the concentration that go into the work.

Black and white, wide view: a mechanic reaching across the underside of a car with an air tool

Colour: a mechanic with both arms raised to a car lift, looking straight at the camera

Black and white: a mechanic at his tool chest beneath a raised car wheel

Colour portrait of a mechanic in a beanie, looking up at his work

Editing

Edited pictures, in a style that suits you

Every picture you receive is fully edited. We can try different styles together until the look is right for your business.

High-contrast black and whiteDeep blacks, bright highlights and visible grain. It suits metal, grit and physical work, as in the garage pictures above.
Clean black and whiteSoft, even greys with no grain. Calmer and more formal, and easier to sit beside text on a website.
Selective colourBlack and white throughout, except for the person and the part they are working on, so the eye goes straight to the job in hand. The picture at the top of this page is finished this way.
Full colourTrue to life, for businesses whose colours are part of who they are.

Websites

The pictures, and the site they go on

I also build websites. Each one can include enquiry forms that capture your customers' details, so a visitor who is interested becomes someone you can follow up. Photographs and website can be done as one job, so the pictures are taken with the finished pages in mind.

About

Yolanda Warren

Very few people are comfortable in front of a camera. I have worked as a midwife for many years, which is long practice in putting people at ease when they have other things on their minds. I bring that to every shoot.

My earlier career was in audit and computer programming. I notice patterns and detail, I plan the work, and I deliver what we agreed.

Away from business work I photograph wildlife, as Loose in Nature.

Contact

Tell me about your business.

Based in Oxfordshire. Email [email protected] to talk through what you need.