Commercial Photography
Campaign stills, product, and portraiture with controlled light. We tether, we plot, and we deliver files that survive print and crop. Retouch is finishing against a grade, not a rescue of underexposure.
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Frame it. Finish it.
Light, Motion, Meaning
From treatment to master: photography, video, color grading, post, 3D, and motion graphics directed as one craft. Built for brands and agencies that refuse a split between the campaign still and the film.
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We are a production company for brands and agencies that need stills and motion to feel like one body of work. Photography, filming, colour, post, 3D, and motion graphics share a lighting language and a finishing suite.
The studio in Chișinău is the base. We travel with a core crew and hire locally when the story needs it. Files come home to the same grade, so a campaign does not split between a retoucher in one city and a colourist in another.
If you need a vendor who only rents a camera, we are the wrong room. If you need pictures that hold in print, on a site, and in a film without three different looks, that is the work.
Services
Photography, motion, finishing and direction — staffed as one crew, finished in one suite.
Video Filming
Treatments through principal photography. Coverage is shot for the edit and the grade: protected highlights, matched cameras, and sound that is not an afterthought.
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Show LUTs, shot matching, HDR and SDR masters. Stills can live in the same timeline. The brand palette is a decision, not a filter pack.
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Picture, sound, titles, and versioning. A sixty-second master and a fifteen-second cutdown should look like siblings, not cousins who stopped speaking.
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Product and environment CGI composited with plates. Look-dev starts with references shot on set. If the render announces itself, it is not done.
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Type, diagrams, product callouts, and brand systems built to re-version. We do not deliver a single After Effects file that only the author understands.
Learn moreCreative Direction
Treatments, boards, casting notes, and on-set direction. We protect the idea when the day gets short, which it will.
Learn moreLighting Design
Studio and location plots for stills and motion. Repeatable light is the product. Lucky hour is a bonus, not a plan.
Learn moreHow a job moves
From brief to masters. The plot is shared; the files come home to the same grade.
Brief
We read the deck, the media plan, and the references. We ask what has to live as a still and what has to move. A one-page treatment comes back before we talk dates.
Pre-production
Locations, lighting plots, casting, call sheets, and a shot list that protects the idea if the day shortens. Wardrobe and product are tested on camera, not on the morning of.
Production
Stills and motion share a plot. Tethered review for photography, calibrated monitors for film. Stakeholders see selects before wrap, not a week later.
Finishing
Edit, grade, graphics, and CGI in one suite. Stills are pulled from the same colour-managed timeline so the campaign does not split in public.
Delivery
Masters, cutdowns, stills, and archives named for the media plan. We keep a working project for the revision window written in the estimate.
Selected work
Cases where stills and film had to hold as one campaign.
2025 · Beauty brand / agency
Aurora skincare — stills and a 30s film
A product launch that had to hold in OOH, a site hero, and a thirty-second film. One plot, one grade, three aspect ratios.
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2024 · Corporate
Northline — leadership portraits and a documentary
Executive stills and a twelve-minute employer film shot in offices that could not be ‘dressed’ for a commercial.
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2025 · Design object / e-comm
Atelier object — product CGI and live tabletop
A chair that existed as a prototype in one colour and had to appear in four finishes online before manufacturing.
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Beauty & fashion
Lookbooks, beauty films, and e-comm stills that share one grade.
Product & retail
Tabletop, lifestyle, and CGI composites for packs that do not exist yet.
Corporate & employers
Leadership portraits, office documentary, and recruitment films.
Food & hospitality
Menu stills and atmosphere films with practical light, not stock steam.
Technology
Product heroes, UI insert shots, and explainers without a stock-library face.
Agencies
We sit as a production partner: treatments, boards, and files another team can version.
From producers and editors
“They treated the stills and the film as one job. We did not have to referee two vendors at the wrap lunch.”
Mira K. · Agency producer
“The grade held on every cutdown. That is rarer than people admit.”
Andrei P. · Brand lead
“Clear plots, quiet on set, files we could version six months later without a forensic search.”
Elena V. · Creative director
“Tethered stills that already sat in the campaign palette. Retouch was finishing, not rescue.”
Jonas H. · Photo editor
Journal
Notes from set and the finishing suite.
12 March 2026
Lighting for mixed stills and motion
How we plot a day that has to yield both a hero still and usable coverage without relighting every setup.
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2 February 2026
Why we grade stills with the film
Matching a retouched still to a show LUT is not a courtesy — it is how a campaign holds together in a media mix.
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18 January 2026
Compositing CGI so it does not announce itself
Product renders fail when the light in the CG does not match the plate. Look-dev starts on set, not in the CGI room.
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Do you shoot stills and film on the same day?
Yes, when the plot allows. We design light that holds for a locked hero still and for coverage. If the still needs a modifier that will not travel into motion, we split the day rather than fake it.
Where are you based?
The studio and finishing suite are at str. Mihai Eminescu 15, Chișinău. We travel with a core crew in Europe and hire locally when the story needs it.
Can you deliver HDR and social cutdowns?
HDR masters, Rec.709, and platform cutdowns are part of finishing. We need the media plan early so aspect ratios are shot, not cropped as an afterthought.
Who owns the files?
Copyright stays with the studio until invoices are paid, then usage follows the contract (territory, term, media). Raw camera files are working material unless a raw license is bought.
How early should we book?
Four to six weeks is comfortable for a campaign with casting and locations. A stills-only studio day can be held faster if the diary is open.
Do you work with agency producers?
Daily. We take treatments, call sheets, and version lists from agency teams and return files that fit their traffic, not a private naming scheme.
Ratesame House
Send a brief with references, dates, and whether the job is stills, motion, or both. We reply with a crew plan, a plot, and an estimate — not a rate-card PDF with no names on it.
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