Political portraits — 05

We bring the spec to the region.

Moving four hundred people to Sarajevo costs more than moving one studio to them. A mobile lighting station travels to your regional offices on an agreed schedule and runs the identical written spec — so a candidate photographed in Bihać matches one photographed in Trebinje.

From €450 / day Any room 3 × 4 m Identical written spec

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The roadshow exists because the alternative is worse. Asking several hundred people to travel to one studio wastes their week and yours, and photographing them locally with whoever is available guarantees a slate that does not match. What travels instead is the station: the same modifiers, the same measured distances, the same operator and the same written spec sheet, re-set with a tape measure and a light meter at the start of every venue. The room requirement is modest — roughly three by four metres, a power socket, and a door that closes. Set-up takes under an hour, and the schedule states a people-per-day rate for each stop so your regional offices can plan around it rather than clearing a whole week.

Room needed

≈3 × 4 m

Set-up

< 60 min

Per stop

35–45 people

From

€450 / day

What travels

The studio, not an approximation of it.

The same lighting kit

The modifiers and heads used on the spec day travel with the station. Substituting a different modifier and matching “by eye” is exactly how a slate stops matching.

The same operator

One named operator for the whole programme, every stop. Consistency is a habit before it is a measurement.

A measured re-set at each venue

Light height and distance, subject distance, power and exposure re-set from the written sheet with a tape measure and a meter — not from memory.

Portable background system

The agreed register carried as a physical background, so a candidate in a regional office is not photographed against a different grey to everyone else.

A per-stop schedule

Each venue gets its own call sheet and a stated people-per-day rate, so regional offices lose hours rather than days.

Under an hour to set up

In and running inside an hour in any room around three by four metres with a power socket. Out again the same evening if the schedule needs it.

Every stop is checked against day one, on the day.

The smart layer

A roadshow fails slowly. Nothing looks wrong at any individual venue — the drift only becomes visible weeks later when the whole slate is laid out together, by which point the fix is a reshoot.

A reference frame travels too
The spec-day frame goes with the station. The first frame at every new venue is compared against it before the queue starts moving.
Exposure and density verified numerically
Background density and key exposure are checked as values, not as impressions. A third of a stop of drift is invisible in a room and obvious on a poster wall.
Caught at the venue, not in post
A mismatch found while the station is still standing costs ten minutes. Found after the truck has left, it costs a return trip — so the check happens before the kit comes down.

How it runs.

Step 01

Route & schedule

Regions, venues and dates agreed as one route, with a people-per-day rate per stop that each office can plan against.

Step 02

Set up & verify

Station built in under an hour, spec re-set from the written sheet, and the first frame checked against the spec-day reference before the queue moves.

Step 03

Shoot & move

The stop runs to its call sheet, the kit comes down, and the same station and operator rebuild it identically at the next venue.

At each venue

Full lighting station, set up and verified
The agreed background register, carried
A per-stop call sheet and throughput rate
The same named operator, every stop

Across the route

One written spec, re-set and checked at every venue
Reference-frame comparison before each stop starts
One structured archive across all regions
Late additions matched to the same spec

Logistics

Room requirement ≈3 × 4 m plus a power socket
Set-up under an hour, same-day strike
Travel within BiH included in the €450 day rate
Travel outside BiH quoted separately

Disclosure

Every frame on this page is our own studio reference work, photographed to demonstrate the standard. No client campaign material appears here, or anywhere else on this site.

Before you brief.

What do you actually need from the room?

Roughly three by four metres of clear floor, a power socket, and a door that closes. Ceiling height helps but is rarely the constraint. We do not need a window, and we would generally rather not have one.

Can you cover several towns in one week?

Yes — that is the normal shape of it. The route is agreed before the first day, with a stated people-per-day rate per stop so each regional office knows exactly how long the station is theirs.

Does the mobile station produce the same result as the studio?

That is the entire point of the written spec. The same kit, the same measured distances and the same operator travel, and the first frame at every venue is compared against the spec-day reference before the queue starts.

The rest of the service.

Eight ways into the same standard. Most engagements combine two or three.

Candidate headshot days

Your list becomes a schedule with a named slot per person, so nobody loses a working day waiting for a turn that never comes.

Rapid response

Late additions photographed against the day-one written spec — the same measurements, the same background, the same operator — so no one can tell who was added late.

Campaign portraits

We photograph two or three people first and lock the look with you before anybody else is scheduled. It becomes the written spec for the entire programme.

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Mobile studio from €450 per day, on top of the per-person rate.

Charged per production day in addition to the per-person capture rate. A second station and operator, which roughly doubles throughput per stop, is available from €600 per day. Travel outside Bosnia and Herzegovina is quoted separately.

See the full rate card

Give us the map.

Regions, headcount per region and the deadline. We will come back with a route, a per-stop schedule and a fixed price.

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