CRTE Studio creates brand and lifestyle photography in Los Angeles that makes your product feel like a moment, not a listing.
Request a quote. Westlake Village studio, by appointment.
Brand & Lifestyle days are run by the same photographer start to finish — the person who lights the set is the person who delivers the retouch.
Talent-forward lifestyle sets designed around a mood board and a shot list. We produce campaign hero images, seasonal drops, and refreshable content libraries you can pull from all year.
Deposits and fixed-price sessions, paid by card. Once it clears, the date is yours.
See studio packagesFill the brief for this shoot — then pick a time on the calendar.
Lifestyle work exists to show the product in a life someone recognises, which means casting, wardrobe and location matter as much as the camera. We plan the story in a call, then shoot to a scene list rather than a shot list.
Crew, talent and stylist arrive together. Hair and makeup starts immediately while the first location is dressed and the light is still soft.
We shoot the highest-value scene first, while everyone is fresh and the morning light is doing half the work for us.
Talent breaks for 45 minutes, wardrobe changes over, and the crew rebuilds the second location so nothing waits on a set once shooting resumes.
Talent is released against signed releases, locations are restored, and the day's cards are backed up twice before anyone leaves the set.
Selects go out inside 48 hours for social use, and the full retouched gallery follows within twelve business days.
The single biggest lever on a lifestyle day is deciding who approves a scene before we move to the next one. Nominate one person with authority on set, and a day that would produce four usable scenes will comfortably produce six.
Two talent, three locations across Westlake Village and Malibu, five scenes: 126 retouched stills, 40 vertical crops and one 38-second reel delivered in nine business days.
Four models, six wardrobe changes, canyon and coastal setups: 240 finals, twelve hero TIFF files and a season's worth of paid-social assets in one production block.
One talent in a styled kitchen set, three scenes across four hours: 64 finals, 22 vertical crops and eight flat-lay details for the catalogue's opening spread.
A lifestyle gallery takes seven to twelve business days because retouching people takes longer than retouching objects, and colour has to hold across every frame in a scene. When a launch date is fixed we agree a select-first schedule: twelve approved frames inside two business days, then the remainder on the normal clock. Rush delivery of a full lifestyle gallery is possible but priced per day, since it usually means a second retoucher on the file.
Image ownership transfers to you, but talent usage is bounded by the release each model signs, and that release is written before casting closes. The standard term we negotiate is two years of unrestricted digital and print use in North America, with paid-media extension and worldwide broadcast priced as an add-on. Location releases can carry their own conditions, and any restriction is written into the delivery note rather than buried in an email thread.
Editorial lifestyle imagery priced by direction, talent, locations and post depth.
From $1,800
Lifestyle Half-Day
A focused half-day producing a compact lifestyle set for site and social.
Fixed-price and paid online. Everything else is quoted after a scoping call.
$1,800
Lifestyle Half-Day
Talent-led brand scenes across a half-day block.
$3,200
Brand Content Day
Multiple looks and set-ups in one production day.
Need a custom day, or not ready to pay? .
A full-day session that captures your brand in-use — real people, real environments, on-set direction and styling. You leave with hero images plus a bank of social-ready assets from one shoot.