Construction and Architectural Photography

Photography for architects and construction companies.

We provide a range of external and internal architectural photography services throughout the UK.

Our work runs from site investigation through construction to buildings in use.

We are based in Leicester in the UK East Midlands (Northampton, Nottingham and Derby).

When you want a professional photographer for construction projects, new homes, buildings, architectural or interior photography, give us a call...

We want to help you get the most from your architectural images - and can offer a fine art printing service.

There is always the offer of free help with colour management, image correction and printing, for any work supplied.

Guide to our Commercial Photography Prices

What we can do for you

The architectural images you want - We can work to precise specifications as well as produce our own interpretations of the built environment.
Easy to use Images - Web or print.
Our images are supplied to meet your precise technical requirements.
No hidden costs - All our prices are clear and up front.
Free technical advice and assistance - Our image processing and Colour Management knowledge is freely available to our clients.

Construction/Architecture Photography

Northlight provides construction photography services for all stages of a project, from site planning to client handover and sales brochures. We are happy to document your entire building project.

For development projects, our high quality images are often used in brochures and promotional materials.

We can provide photography during all phases of building projects, for both commercial and residential developments.

Our work is used to document and report works progress and site inspections.

We're members of the International Association of Architectural Photographers

High Resolution Imagery

For visualisation and background images for design simulation, we produce high resolution panoramic wide view images.

Some of our high resolution VR photography images have exceeded four gigabytes per file.

The image at the right is from a large set of pre-planning panoramic visualisation images for a major road scheme.

Keith Cooper is an ex surveyor and geologist, so we know how to read maps and plans...

Docks redevelopment in Ipswich, Suffolk.

The regeneration and development of the area around the docks is a mix of new build and conversions from what was a working dock, only a few years ago.

Photographs come with all our expertise in colour management and high quality print reproduction.

A number of our large architectural images have been used as prints for commercial locations.

Exhibition quality prints

We are happy to quote for producing high quality prints of our work in colour or black and white.

Whether for new build offices, or in this example, the converted 'Pex' building for the UK Land Registry in Leicester.

Our prints can make a striking addition to any foyer, lobby or boardroom.

There are full details for our commercial print service elsewhere on the site.

All our work is available printed on archival cotton rag paper with pigment inks for presentations and promotional use. (200 year min. lifetime estimate for black and white on archival papers).

As specialist commercial photographers, we work closely with architects, project management, contractors and agencies to ensure our images are always supplied to meet your needs, whether for web or print use.

UK Wide photography

Our architectural and construction work covers the entire UK.

We are based in Leicester and have worked from Cornwall to Scotland.

In the East and West Midlands we can often provide our architectural photography services at very short notice.

We are happy to schedule work over an extended period where construction timetables are weather dependent.

Many of our clients are sub-contractors, wanting images of specific work or products, for brochures and publicity material.

The viaduct photo was produced for the local landowner, and is exhibited at their nearby business centre.

Construction progress/publicity at the new stand at Leicester Tiger's Rugby ground.

We were involved in this project from the initial site preparation and concrete works.

Natural lighting for interior architectural studies

We like to use natural lighting whenever possible.

All the examples on this page use available light - an important consideration when working on an active construction site.

For some black and white examples, have a look at our venue photography page. The shots were taken with no additional lighting, at 11:30pm for a local bar, to promote their jazz club.

All the examples were produced as ~26"x17" prints for decorative use.

When do you need your photos?

We can sometimes fit in location work at only a few days notice.

This is particularly so in the Leicestershire and the UK East Midlands region.

Our area of work covers the entire UK.

Construction schedules can change, so our aim is to accommodate your requirements and provide construction photography that fits in with your plans.

Your photographs are supplied in digital formats to suit your requirements, typically 'print ready' at 300dpi and whatever size you need, in either TIFF, JPEG or Photoshop PSD formats.

Your architectural images can be incorporated in CD based 'web galleries' and we can quote for any additional image enhancement, perspective correction or processing work that you may require.

Let us know if you need high resolution imaging for producing display prints.

If you need matched sets of images for animation, then we can ensure alignment issues are addressed.

Technical issues

We can provide images in a variety of geometric projections for different uses and can help with image correction and processing advice if required.

The very wide angles covered in some of the interior pictures on this page are difficult to achieve without awkward distortion.

We can supply an image in several different projections so as to best meet your needs.

Northlight Images has a wide range of specialist digital architectural photographic equipment.

For the highest quality images we believe, wherever possible, in capturing the right image in the camera to start with, not just 'fixing' things in Photoshop afterwards.

The exterior view below is created from multiple images, resulting in extremely high resolution.

This picture featured widely in advance promotional materials for the new Curve theatre.

And one of a series of night time views after completion.

Internal view of stage - stitched images with rise and fall camera movements.

Mixed fluorescent/sodium lighting - 10 seconds exposure

Commercial Interiors

For new build offices, conversions and renovation.

Any locations where you are looking for striking imagery.

From a collection of images illustrating interior design and facilities in a new office build.

Photos were supplied for both print brochures and web use.

Commercial Property

Commercial property and architectural photography.

Interiors/exteriors for web and high quality print use.

We offer services for commercial property portfolio holders and commercial agents.

Roll your mouse over the image below to see one of our images in use.

How much does all this cost?

We will always provide written quotations and agree costs in advance.

Guide to our commercial architectural photography costs

Our other photographic services

Fine art prints for interior design and commercial use

We also supply large decorative prints of our commercial work, in addition to the fine art landscape prints that you can see in the Gallery

Annual report photography

Images to promote your business activities and vision in annual reports and investor relations literature.

Hotel photography

We provide a full photography service for hotels, covering brochures, events and restaurant food photography

Landscape photography

We provide commercial landscape photography for brochures, events and exhibitions.

When you are looking for interior imagery for restaurants, cafés, bars, hotels, apartments and houses.

Keith Cooper's large landscape prints have been used by a number of commercial and residential interior designers in their designs.

Corporate event and venue photography

Our photography services are also available for corporate events and hospitality where we supply high quality images for publicity and promotional purposes.

Our aim is to capture the atmosphere and convey much more than just a record of who was there.

We also provide a full range of Corporate Photography services, for web sites, brochures, advertising and annual reports

Commercial photo services

Details on our commercial photography page

Industrial photography

Photographs that show detailed aspects of industrial equipment, for displays, trade stands, brochures and web use.

Photographs of Leicester and Leicestershire

We have a growing collection of local photography, and can often provide bespoke promotional images at fairly short notice.

Training / education / seminars

We provide product photography training services for companies who want to improve the quality of their own photography and photography training/seminars for property professionals wanting to take better interior and exterior photographs.

Colour management

Many organisation don't get the full benefit from their imagery and we know a lot of people are trying to bring an understanding of colour management to their business.

The advantages, such as 'getting it right first time' can quickly translate into a quicker turnaround -- and increased profitability.

We offer training and advice services - any help you need in using photographs we've taken for you is free.

More details in our Colour Management services page

We offer more general photographic training too.

For more examples of the kind of topics covered, see our teaching page or our Lectures/seminars section.

Keith Cooper is a University lecturer and qualified Adult Education tutor.

He runs a number of local training courses covering such items as:

Digital Photography (intermediate / advanced level).
Photography without a darkroom (intermediate/advanced level).
Technical aspects include: digital cameras, scanning film, printing and Colour management.
Photoshop for Photographers.

Several on-line versions of his courses are available on this site.

An example from his introductory digital photography course covers Basic Image manipulation with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.

Please call us today for an informal chat to discuss your needs, and how we can help ...

Other areas of our site that may be of interest...

Digital Black and White photography and printing. Based on a magazine interview with Keith. Some of his thoughts, techniques and tips for those interested in a digital approach to black and white. We've many Photography Articles and Photographic equipment and software reviews on the site aimed at helping you get the best out of your own photography.

There is a gallery of landscape photography and fine art prints.

The What's New page showcases new site features.

Visiting Leicester or wondering where it is? We have views from the Leicester traffic cameras.