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or Tel.0116 291 9092Construction and Architectural Photography
Photography for architects and construction companies.
We provide a range of external and internal architectural photography services throughout the UK (we are 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 - We are always happy to offer free help with colour management, image correction and printing.
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We also provide fine art prints for commercial interior architecture projects
Why use Northlight Images?
- 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.
Contact details :
Northlight Images, 86 Harrow Road Leicester, Leicestershire, UK. LE3 0JW (Maps) Telephone +44 116 291 9092
We're proud to a member of Design Leicestershire
Member of the International Association of Architectural Photographers
Construction/Architecture Photography
Northlight provides construction photography services for all stages of a project, from site planning to client handover and sales brochures.
For visualisation and background images for design simulation, we produce high resolution panoramic wide view images.
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.
The image at the right is from a large set of pre-planning panoramic visualisation images for a major road scheme.
Some of our high resolution VR photography images have exceeded four gigabytes per file.
Keith Cooper is an ex surveyor and geologist, so we know how to read maps and plans...
The image to the right is from some of our work on the new Highcross development in Leicester (actual photo not computer rendering).
In addition to Keith Cooper's fine art landscape work, Northlight Images produces large prints of our work for decorative, promotional and visualisation purposes.
The main stage area at the new Curve Theatre in Leicester is shown below.
In one particular (well planned) two hour site visit, we were able to provide the client with over a hundred high resolution images showing construction progress on the site.
We are specialist commercial photographers and 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.
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, particularly 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 picture below is from an installation of glass doors at a new library and community centre.
Sliding glass doors
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.
We are happy to quote for producing exhibition 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 paper with pigment inks for presentations and promotional use (200 year min. lifetime estimate for black and white).
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.
The exterior view below is made 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.
Note, we several images of Curve amongst our collection of Leicestershire and Leicester photographs
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. We do however work throughout the UK.
We know that construction schedules can change, so our aim is to accommodate your requirements and provide construction photography that fits in with your plans.
We always provide images in digital formats to suit your requirements, typically 'print ready' at 300dpi in either tiff or Photoshop PSD formats.
We can produce CD based 'web galleries' of your architectural images and will quote for any additional image enhancement, perspective correction or processing work that you may require.
We can also offer particularly high resolution imaging for producing display prints.
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 in a new office build.
Commercial Property
Commercial property and architectural photography.
Interiors/exteriors for web and high quality print use.
We offer a service 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.
We have a general guide to our commercial architectural photography prices available
...please give us a call if you would like to discuss a project or get a firmer estimate.
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
There are some further interior examples on the page describing one of Keith's exhibitions of landscape photography.
Our other Photographic services
>> More sample commercial images
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's large landscape prints have been used by a number of commercial and residential interior designers in their designs.
Event and Public Relations photography
There are full details on the Event/PR page
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
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 / presentations
We provide product photography training services for companies who want to improve the quality of their own photography and photography training/seminars for Estate Agents 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 ...
Contact details :
Northlight Images, 86 Harrow Road Leicester, Leicestershire, UK. LE3 0JW (Maps) Telephone +44 116 291 9092Other 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. There is a growing collection of Photography Articles and Photographic equipment and software reviews on the site aimed at helping you get the best out of your own photography.
There are even more images in the updated gallery of landscape photography and fine art prints
Northlight Images is based in the UK and supplies Commercial Photography services, Photography training and Colour Management Consultancy.
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