Editorial Fashion Photography | Newport Art Museum
Editorial fashion photography session with model Kendalle Bennett at the Newport Art Museum. Creative commercial photography for fashion brands, designers, and editorial campaigns in Newport, Rhode Island.
The Newport Art Museum provided the perfect backdrop for this recent editorial fashion session featuring Kendalle Bennett. Surrounded by contemporary artwork and beautiful natural light, we created a series of portraits that blended fashion, architecture, and fine art.
Editorial sessions are about more than documenting clothing—they're about creating imagery that communicates personality, movement, and style. The museum's galleries offered a sophisticated environment that complemented the collection while allowing the artwork to become part of the visual story.
Whether you're a designer, artist, or creative professional, thoughtful location selection can elevate a fashion campaign and create imagery that feels timeless rather than trendy.
Commercial Food Photography for Turtle Rock Farm | Building a Fresh Image Library
Commercial food photography for Turtle Rock Farm in Maine featuring handcrafted preserves, editorial food styling, and a refreshed brand image library.
There's something special about working with brands that care deeply about quality, craftsmanship, and the story behind their products.
Recently, I had the opportunity to photograph new commercial imagery for Turtle Rock Farm, a Maine-based specialty food company, as part of an ongoing image library refresh. The goal wasn't simply to photograph products—it was to create a versatile collection of lifestyle and branding images that can be used across their website, social media, email campaigns, wholesale marketing, and future product launches.
For food brands today, customers often experience a company online long before they ever taste the product. Professional photography helps communicate freshness, authenticity, and quality in just a few seconds.
For this session, we focused on creating natural, editorial-inspired imagery featuring Turtle Rock Farm preserves paired with artisan cheeses, fresh blueberries, rustic bread, and thoughtfully selected styling elements. Rather than overly polished commercial scenes, we wanted imagery that felt approachable, elevated, and true to the brand.
A comprehensive image library allows businesses to maintain visual consistency across every customer touchpoint. Instead of relying on the same handful of photographs year after year, brands can continually introduce fresh content for seasonal campaigns, online retailers, social media, newsletters, catalogs, and advertising.
As a commercial photographer specializing in food, beverage, and consumer packaged goods photography, I work with brands to create imagery that serves multiple marketing purposes—from clean product photography to styled lifestyle scenes that inspire customers and strengthen brand identity.
Whether you're a small artisan producer, specialty food company, farm, restaurant, or national consumer brand, investing in a professionally planned image library provides marketing content that continues working long after the photoshoot is complete.
If your business is ready to refresh your brand photography or create a complete commercial image library, I'd love to help bring your products to life through authentic, story-driven imagery.
Commercial Beverage Photography for Alive & Well Kombucha
Commercial beverage photography and content creation for Alive & Well Kombucha, featuring lifestyle imagery, product photography, and brand storytelling assets.
Project Overview
Alive & Well partnered with Olivia Gird Studio to create a collection of commercial imagery for its kombucha beverage line. The goal was to develop content that highlighted the product's fresh, wellness-focused identity while creating versatile assets for use across digital marketing channels.
The Approach
The project focused on creating imagery that felt vibrant, approachable, and aligned with the brand's health-conscious audience. Through thoughtful styling, composition, and lighting, the content emphasized both the product itself and the lifestyle surrounding the brand.
Creative direction centered on producing a cohesive collection of assets suitable for e-commerce, social media, marketing campaigns, and brand storytelling.
The Results
The final gallery provided Alive & Well with a versatile library of commercial content designed to support ongoing marketing efforts across multiple platforms. The imagery balanced clean product presentation with lifestyle-driven visuals, helping communicate the brand's mission and personality.
Multi-Purpose Product Photography & Marketing Assets for Jean & Jude
Recent commercial product photography project for Jean & Jude, featuring a multi-use baby cover for nursing, car seats, strollers, shopping carts, and high chairs. This lifestyle product photography session included e-commerce images and marketing graphics designed to help customers quickly understand the product's features and benefits.
The Goal
Jean & Jude needed imagery that showcased the versatility of their multi-use baby cover while maintaining a clean, modern aesthetic that would appeal to new and expecting parents.
The Challenge
One of the biggest challenges with products like this is communicating multiple functions quickly and clearly. Consumers need to understand not only what the product is, but how it fits into everyday life.
The Creative Approach
For this project, I focused on creating lifestyle imagery that demonstrated the product in use while maintaining a soft, approachable feel. Natural light, neutral styling, and a calming color palette helped reinforce the brand's family-focused identity.
The imagery was designed to highlight the product's many uses, including:
Car seat cover
Stroller cover
Nursing cover
Beyond Photography: Marketing Graphics
In addition to the photography, I created marketing graphics that combined imagery and product information into a format suitable for websites, online marketplaces, email campaigns, and social media.
By pairing strong visuals with clear messaging, the final assets help customers quickly understand the product's benefits and versatility.
Final Deliverables
Lifestyle product photography
Product-in-use imagery
Marketing graphics
E-commerce content assets
Social media-ready imagery
Why Lifestyle Product Photography Matters
When shoppers can visualize how a product fits into their daily routine, they are more likely to connect with the brand and feel confident in their purchase decision. Lifestyle photography helps bridge the gap between a product's features and its real-world benefits.
Lifestyle Product Photography for Home & Wellness Brands (Blissy Commercial Campaign)
When most people think of Blissy, they think of their iconic silk pillowcases, but the brand has also expanded into beautifully designed home and wellness products. For this campaign, I photographed a collection of laundry detergents, linen sprays, and candles with a focus on creating warm, inviting imagery that felt elevated, clean, and luxurious.
The goal was to highlight the products in a way that felt natural and aspirational while remaining true to the brand's soft, wellness-inspired aesthetic. Using a combination of styled lifestyle scenes and clean product-focused compositions, we created a versatile image library for use across web, social media, email marketing, and advertising.
One of my favorite parts of commercial photography is seeing the final images come to life after delivery. The photographs from this campaign were incorporated into Blissy's marketing materials, helping showcase their expanding collection of home and self-care products.
Olivia Gird Studio specializes in commercial product photography, lifestyle product photography, and branded content for beauty, wellness, home, and consumer product brands. Based in Rhode Island and available for projects nationwide.
Eczema Honey Case Study: Creating Content for a Trusted Skincare Brand
Commercial skincare photography and content creation for Eczema Honey, including product imagery, lifestyle content, and e-commerce assets.
Project Overview
Eczema Honey partnered with Olivia Gird Studio to create a collection of product and lifestyle imagery for use across e-commerce, social media, email marketing, and advertising campaigns.
As a growing skincare brand focused on gentle, effective solutions for sensitive skin, Eczema Honey needed imagery that felt clean, approachable, and authentic while maintaining a polished commercial aesthetic.
The Approach
Each project began with a clear understanding of the brand's visual identity and target audience. Creative direction focused on highlighting product benefits, texture, ingredients, and everyday usability while maintaining consistency across multiple marketing channels.
Working from concept through final delivery, Olivia Gird Studio handled production, photography, styling, and post-production to create a versatile library of assets that could be used across digital platforms.
The Results
The final collection provided Eczema Honey with a range of high-quality visual content designed to support product launches, social media campaigns, e-commerce listings, and ongoing marketing initiatives.
The collaboration resulted in multiple projects over time, creating a cohesive visual library that aligned with the brand's mission and customer experience.
Lifestyle Product Photography for Custom Children’s Books (Brand Shoot for Luna Books US)
A look at a recent lifestyle product photography shoot for Berry Little, focused on creating flexible, high-end imagery for customizable children’s books. Designed for e-commerce and social use, these images balance warmth, simplicity, and scalability for growing brands.
Luna approached this shoot with a clear goal: to create a set of lifestyle images that could support a wide range of personalized children’s books across their brand.
Because each book is customized—with different names, stories, and covers—the imagery needed to feel warm, real, and engaging, while also remaining flexible enough to work across multiple designs.
The Challenge
Photographing personalized products comes with a unique challenge. Traditional lifestyle photography often locks a product into a single story or visual moment. But for Luna Books, the images needed to:
Work across multiple book variations
Allow space for different names and page designs
Feel natural and child-led rather than overly styled
Translate seamlessly across e-commerce and social platforms
The goal wasn’t just to create beautiful images—it was to create usable, scalable content.
The Approach
To solve this, the shoot was designed with both creativity and flexibility in mind.
A soft, neutral environment was chosen to keep the focus on the product while maintaining a warm, inviting feel. Overhead compositions allowed for clean layouts that could easily accommodate design overlays and text placement.
Working with a child model, the direction was intentionally minimal. Instead of heavily posed moments, the focus was on natural interaction—letting the child explore the book in a way that felt authentic and relatable.
Key considerations included:
Overhead angles for maximum layout flexibility
Blank book pages to support customizable designs
Neutral tones to ensure consistency across branding
Organic movement and interaction for emotional connection
The Result
The final set of images gives Luna Books a versatile library of content that can be used across their website, social media, and marketing materials.
Each image is designed to scale—supporting multiple versions of the product without needing a full reshoot for every variation.
At the same time, the imagery maintains a soft, emotional quality that reflects the heart of the brand: storytelling, connection, and childhood imagination.
This type of lifestyle product photography is especially valuable for brands offering customizable or evolving products, where flexibility is just as important as visual appeal.
