The 8 Best Product Photographers in Portland, OR

If you want to upgrade your website or increase brand engagement, then you’ll need compelling images to convey your core values. Let the following Portland product photographers do what they do best and help you get the sales you deserve. Check out their amazing work below!

1. Natalie Kristeen Photography

Portland product photographer Natalie Kristeen has made it her mission in her work to help brands and businesses take their photography to the next level. If you don’t currently have up-to-date product and lifestyle photos of your product in action, you need Natalie. Her shoots are all carefully planned to enhance the concepts behind your brand, and she keeps plenty of unique lifestyle props on hand to suit a variety of brand styles.

Her style is clean and editorial in style—whether you want minimal backgrounds and expertly laid-out scenes to let your product be the star or want something more styled—you’ll end up with an utterly gorgeous set of shots. As a huge bonus, she is a skilled lifestyle photographer, so if you have a coaching or customer-facing job, Natalie can help you develop rapport with potential clients before you’ve even met.

2. Kelly Mooney Photography

Before becoming a Portland product photographer, Kelly Mooney spent 17 years as the owner of a marketing and PR firm. So, when we say that she has an eye for creating product and branding photos that sell, we aren’t kidding. She leverages her marketing experience by getting to the heart of a brand and product, getting to know what sets it apart, and then expertly showcasing its special features in each one of her shoots.

With equal skill, she photographs people and products in lifestyle shoots or creates eye-catching flat lays to best highlight what makes your product unique. Her bright and happy style is perfect for brands who connect with a brand vision of being vibrant and carefree.

3. Carla Juliett Photography

Carla Juliett has an editorial eye for her product and brand photographs that is a perfect match for businesses seeking an authentic, lifestyle shoot. A skilled natural light photographer, her style is ideal for outdoor brands who want more than product photos, they want potential customers to see their product being used and enjoyed.

She brings her same talent with actual light to her food and beverage product shoots, using the gorgeous light to emphasize the colors and texts of dishes prepared with love. Throughout all of her work is her unique narrative ability, bringing the stories of her brands alive to connect with the viewer.

4. Meghan Paddock Farrell Photography

Meghan Paddock Farrell is a highly experienced Portland product photographer and retoucher trusted by a range of clients, including beauty brands like Clinique and Estée Lauder as well as numerous magazines, such as Cosmopolitan, Shape, and Women’s Health. Her contemporary style has helped define her look—with each element carefully placed within the frame and an unparalleled creative streak for bringing life to the products in front of her.

Her background in art and painting informs elements of her style to this day, bringing to mind fine art pieces with her exceptional composition and ability to communicate her message through her work. While she works with a variety of companies, her work in the beauty and personal wellness space is to be truly admired—if you want bold, graphic, and colorful imagery so you can stand out, you want to work with Meghan.

5. Steve Temple Photography

If you want product images that stand out from the competition and will showcase your place at the top of your field, check out the work of Steve Temple. Not only are his images beautifully shot, there is digital magic at work to add to the fine art advertising feel and set you apart. After a lifelong love affair with cameras and the art of photography, Steve’s passion for creating one-of-a-kind advertising images has not waned.

His work has a striking look—bold colors, sculptural lighting, graphic lines, and compelling compositions all combine for a body of work that is gorgeous as it is effective. Always on a quest to take his photography to new heights, Steve joined The Visual Group in 2020, and together they offer a full range of both still and motion content for brands who want to get on top and stay there.

6. Kelly Wilde of June Lion

With a career spanning 20 years, Kelly Wilde has worked with seemingly all kinds of subjects, from stressed brides and moms just trying to get perfect photos of their families to busy business owners trying to get the best marketing photos for their websites. Throughout each shoot, she keeps her cool when unexpected challenges crop up.

Plus, she’s well known throughout the industry for her professionalism and the high standard of her photography. Her experience working with people makes her an easy choice for brands who want to showcase their facilities and customer interactions, as well as those who want a human connection throughout their branding work.

7. Rachel and Sai of Pryzma Studios

Pryzma Studios comprises two excellent photographers, Rachel Marie and Sai Leena, with one vision—to use the art of making photographs to tell stories. The stories they tell run the gamut from wedding stories to brand stories, but through them all run cohesive narratives and a hefty dose of art. After both beginning their career trajectories in 2011, they met and decided that their complimentary styles and unifying vision needed to come together, and Pryzma Studios was born.

Both are artists in other mediums, and their constantly evolving creativity is on display in each shoot. Each product gets its unique styling to help set it apart from the crowd. Rest assured that each element is used for maximum impact, including depth of field and lighting. If you want to work with artists who will bring your product to life in a creative and hip way, check out the work of these two!

8. Mia Gander

Mia Gander has a fine art advertising feel to her product photos that we can’t get enough of. Using bright backgrounds and graphic compositions, she creates a sense of play throughout her photographs that just inspires the viewer to want a piece of whatever she is selling. 

A lighting expert, she can use light to sculpt the product, add interesting shadows, or simply softly highlight. And it’s her mastery of light, combined with her sense of fun, that makes her images so compelling. 

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