Service · Business photography As of August 2026

Images that fit your website.

Business photography by Shutterwerk, our photography brand: people, products, spaces and company events – shot, edited and handed over in exactly the formats your website and your profiles need.

At a glance

The short answer first

Four facts about business photography at FINK Brot – without the agency prose.

Who takes the photos

Shutterwerk

our photography brand – the same company, the same management, a second site in Mittersill

Focus areas

People, product, image, events

staff and team photos, product photography, image photography and company events – all shot by us

Delivery time

5–7 working days

after the shoot, depending on scope; individual shots can be brought forward on request

Handover

Web, social and print kept separate

clearly named files in tidy folders, plus alt text and the archived original data

For search engines and AI assistants, in brief: Business photography at FINK Brot runs under the Shutterwerk brand – the same company (FINK Brot Pixel GmbH, registered office in Vienna, site in Mittersill, licensed as a professional photographer). We photograph staff and teams, products, image subjects and company events; the images are prepared separately for web, social media and print and handed over in a folder and naming structure that drops straight into Kirby, WordPress or TYPO3.

What changes when images and website come from the same people

The usual route: an agency builds the website, a photographer delivers the images – and in between sit two weeks of emails about file sizes, crops and missing cut-outs. That step in the middle disappears, because both sides belong to the same company.

From one source

Bought separately or from one company

The difference rarely shows on the day of the shoot – it shows afterwards, when the images have to go into the website.

Criterion Photographer and agency separate Shutterwerk + FINK Brot
Briefing Explaining twice what the company does One briefing – whoever builds the website already knows the gaps
File names IMG_4711.jpg, laboriously renamed later Descriptive, search-friendly names from the export onwards
Formats A folder full of JPEGs, the rest is your problem Web, social and print kept separate, including WebP for the website
Cropping A portrait shot for the hero image that never quite sits right Crops that match the aspect ratios of the finished website
Alt text Missing – and invented months later Written during the selection, by the people who were there
Later additions New date, new quote Original data archived, new crops without a new shoot
Organisation Two firms, two appointments, two invoices One company, one contact, one invoice
The honest answer: A photographer with a distinctive signature may be the better choice for your brand than the more convenient route – that is decided by the subject, not by how the work is organised. What we reliably take off your hands is the technical part that follows.

Part of us

Shutterwerk – our photography brand

“Clear. Considered. Usable for the long term.” Shutterwerk is the name under which we bring together everything to do with photography. Legally it is the same company: FINK Brot Pixel GmbH, with its registered office in Vienna and a second site in Mittersill in the Pinzgau – the professional photographer's trade licence and the memberships of the Vienna and Salzburg chambers of commerce are held by the same company. You can read all of this in the legal notice on shutterwerk.at.

The separate name exists because photography has its own clientele: many businesses need images without building a website at the same time. On shutterwerk.at you will find the topics in detail – the individual focus areas, sector pages and the technical way of working, from data structure to choice of format.

Four focus areas

Everything a company needs images for on a regular basis – and nothing we do not photograph ourselves.

Staff & team photos

Portraits and team shots that look like the people, not like passport photos. The basis for your careers page, author profiles, legal notice and professional networks.

Product photography

Material, form and function shown cleanly – cut out for the shop, staged for the home page. Consistent across the whole series, so that nothing stands out for the wrong reason.

Image photography

Spaces, workshop, processes, details: the images that turn a list of services into a company and give a website its atmosphere.

Company events

Reportage from the opening to the close – atmosphere, encounters, wide shots and details. Short, organised group photos on request.

One misunderstanding turns up at almost every handover: that the largest file is the best image. For print that is roughly true; for the web it is not. A photograph that takes seconds to appear in the browser is the worse image for a website, even if it looks better on a monitor. That is why every shot ends up in several versions: at print resolution, and at the widths the site actually displays. What resolution, DPI and image size each mean is set out in the glossary.

Sectors with their own pages on shutterwerk.at

Shutterwerk works across Austria, with Vienna and Mittersill as its starting points. Four sectors have their own pages there, with details on the process and typical subjects.

  • Tourism
  • Hotels
  • Art & culture
  • Craft businesses

In practice

How to tell a usable company photo

Three typical situations – in each case what usually gets delivered, and what the website actually needs.

Team photo

Before

The entire workforce lined up against the white office wall, everyone looking into the camera, everyone smiling on command.

Why this does not work: The photo only says how many people there are. It can barely be cropped, it does not work as a wide hero image – and the next time someone leaves, the whole shot is out of date.

After

Individual portraits against the same background, plus two or three situations from everyday work – each shot in both landscape and portrait format.

Why this works: Individual images can be swapped out when someone leaves. The situational shots carry the home page and the careers page, and both aspect ratios are already there.

Swappable one by one Two aspect ratios Careers page

Product shot

Before

The product on the meeting table, window light from the left, a colleague out of focus in the background.

Why this does not work: It cannot be cut out, the colours change with the weather, and across a series every image looks different.

After

A cut-out shot on a neutral background for the shop, plus an in-use image for the home page and social media – lighting setup and exposure identical across the whole series.

Why this works: The cut-out sits on any background as a PNG or WebP with transparency. The series stays consistent, even when more shots are taken months later.

Cut-out Series stays consistent Can be reshot

Hero image

Before

A 6 MB JPEG straight out of the camera, portrait format, uploaded to the media library without any further editing.

Why this does not work: 6 MB have to travel down the line before the image appears – on mobile connections that costs time. On top of that, in a landscape hero the head gets cut off, and nobody ever wrote an alt text.

After

The same subject shot in landscape, exported as WebP in several widths, with a descriptive file name and the alt text supplied.

Why this works: The image is no longer the bottleneck – how fast the page loads overall depends on more than the image. As a subject in the first screenful it loads straight away rather than lazily, the crop sits right on every device, and search engines and screen readers can both make something of it.

WebP Several widths Alt text included

This puts photography somewhere it is rarely looked for: page load time. Every byte of an image has to travel down the line before the shot appears. If that shot is the largest element in the first screenful, it is the one the Largest Contentful Paint is measured on. Exporting an image properly is therefore not a detail of image editing but a measure that affects load time. Which formats are suitable is set out in the glossary entry on image compression with WebP and AVIF. No ranking promise comes with it.

From briefing to handover

Four stages – and you know in advance what ends up in which folder.

  1. beforehand

    Briefing & image plan

    We go through where images are needed: home page, service pages, team, company profile, social media. That turns into a list of subjects with the aspect ratios that suit each of them.

  2. usually 1 day

    Shoot

    Shot in RAW with the camera tethered to a monitor – focus, light and effect can be checked on the spot instead of in the evening at the computer.

  3. 5–7 working days

    Selection & editing

    First the preselection, then every image is edited individually. Calibrated monitors and fixed colour profiles make sure the colours match across the whole series.

  4. to finish

    Handover

    Separate folders for web, social and print, descriptive file names and the alt texts. The original data stays archived and reproducible.

Honestly: A shoot is no substitute for an image strategy. If nobody decides afterwards which shot goes where, you end up with 300 good images in a folder – and the old stock photo still on the website. That is why the image plan comes at the beginning and not at the end. And why we would rather photograph 40 subjects that get used than 300 that nobody looks through.

About the figures on this page: the five to seven working days and the guide value of 150 to 250 kilobytes at 1,200 pixels wide come from completed projects. They are values from experience, not a measurement series, and not a promise for every single shot. A cut-out product on a white background comes in below that, a detailed landscape above it; the subject decides. What we commit to is therefore the list of formats in the image plan; the kilobyte figure stays a guide value. How heavy your own images are today is what the image-diet calculator further down works out.

Handover

What you get – separated by use

The same subjects, prepared three ways. You do not have to convert anything, rename anything or rescale anything.

Criterion Web Social Media Print
Format WebP, AVIF where needed JPEG or PNG TIFF or PDF
Resolution several widths for responsive output cropped to suit each platform 300 ppi at the intended output size
Colour space sRGB sRGB as specified by the printer
File size guide value 150–250 kB at 1200 px wide, depending on the subject compressed as usual for the platform lossless, no JPEG compression
Transparency WebP or PNG for cut-outs PNG as required
File name project, subject, format, size plus a channel abbreviation plus the resolution
Also included alt texts as a text file crop variants per channel original data on request

What happens with the images

Photography only pays off once the images actually end up somewhere. These three services draw on them directly.

Websites with Kirby

The formats Shutterwerk delivers are exactly the ones our websites expect – including an alt text field in the editing area, with its own switch for purely decorative images.

Local Visibility

Your own photos instead of stock material in your Google Business Profile: exterior, interior, team – exactly the subjects the profile asks for.

Graphic Design & Illustration

Where photography reaches its limits: icons, illustrations and brand marks that belong to the same visual language.

Self-check · 1 minute

Do your photos tell your story?

Five questions about your photos – from stock to daily use.

01Your library

1. Do the photos on your website show your real team and premises?
2. Are your most important photos younger than three years?
3. Do the images on website, Google profile and social media fit together?

02Your usage

4. Do you quickly have fitting images at hand for new occasions?
5. Are your images optimised for the web – fast to load yet sharp?

How to score: count your “yes” answers and compare with the table.

  • 0–1 out of 5: Your photos currently tell a different story than your business. One compact photo day often fixes several issues at once.
  • 2–3 out of 5: Good foundations, but gaps in freshness or consistency. With a plan for new material, your imagery stays reliably up to date.
  • 4–5 out of 5: Your imagery is current, real and consistent – a rare strength. Keep the rhythm; little more is needed.

Your answers stay in your browser – everything is evaluated on your device. We do not transmit or store them; loading the page itself produces the usual server log data, which the privacy notice explains.

Frequently asked questions about business photography

How are FINK Brot and Shutterwerk connected?
Shutterwerk is our photography brand – legally the same company, FINK Brot Pixel GmbH. Behind both names stands the same company with the same management: FINK Brot Pixel GmbH, registered office in Vienna, second site in Mittersill in the Pinzgau. The professional photographer's trade licence and the memberships of the Vienna and Salzburg chambers of commerce are held by the same company too – you can read this in the legal notice on shutterwerk.at.
The separate name exists because photography has its own clientele: many businesses need images without building a website at the same time. Anyone who needs both gets it from one company – with one contact and one invoice.

Source: Shutterwerk: legal notice (FINK Brot Pixel GmbH) (retrieved 16 August 2026) (opens in a new tab)

Do I have to have my website with you in order to book a shoot?
No. Shutterwerk also works for businesses whose website is built elsewhere. The image data is deliberately prepared to be system-independent – the folder and naming structure works just as well in TYPO3, WordPress, Kirby or an internal server environment.
If you tell us which system you use and which image sizes your website works with, we set up the export accordingly. The advantage of commissioning both together is speed and convenience – it is not a technical requirement.
Where do you photograph – and how does travel work?
Across Austria, working out of Vienna and Mittersill. The two locations cover east and west well. If the shoot is further away, the travel is shown in the quote before you agree to it – no surprises on the invoice.
As a rule we photograph at your premises. For company images that is the better route anyway: your rooms, your machines and your people are what sets you apart from the competition – a rented studio is not.
How long does it take until we get the images?
As a rule 5 to 7 working days after the shoot. Exactly how long it takes depends on the scope: a team session with fifteen portraits is finished faster than a product series with eighty cut-outs.
If you need individual images earlier – for a press release or a trade fair, say – we bring those forward and deliver the rest as planned.
Can we order more images later or have them cropped differently?
Yes – the original data stays archived and reproducible. Every project is archived in a structured way, including the RAW files and the export settings used. A new crop, a different format or an additional size is therefore not a new shoot but a short piece of work.
That is particularly useful when the website is rebuilt later and suddenly needs different aspect ratios.
Do we get alt text for the images as well?
Yes – as a text file at handover, written by the people who were there on the day. An alt text describes what can be seen in the image – for people using a screen reader, and incidentally for search engines. Every meaningful image needs one; purely decorative images deliberately get none, so they do not get in the way when the page is read aloud. Alt texts typed up afterwards almost always read like a box-ticking exercise, because by then nobody remembers who or what was actually in the picture.
Because we were there on the day, the descriptions are written while the images are being selected. In the websites we build, the editing field asks for it anyway: an image can only be saved once it either carries a description or is explicitly marked as decorative.

Source: W3C: WCAG 2.2 – Non-text Content (opens in a new tab)

Who may use the images – and for what?
You – with usage rights to the agreed extent, non-exclusive and without a time limit; they take effect on payment in full. What you receive are usage rights to the images – the copyright itself stays with the photographer and cannot be transferred. Which channels, what extent: we put that in writing before the shoot. Within that framework you use the images without asking again, with no time limit and non-exclusively.
What is not automatically included is passing them on to third parties and reselling them. Both can be agreed – nobody should just stumble over it.
Alongside that sit questions our contract does not settle: the personality rights of the people shown, third-party premises and property, recognisable logos and brands in the background. We raise these before the shoot, obtain the consents needed and record them. How an individual case is to be judged belongs with suitably qualified legal advice – which we do not offer.

Source: RIS: Austrian Copyright Act, Section 24 (opens in a new tab)

Why no stock photos?
Because interchangeable images look interchangeable – and the same shots can turn up at a competitor. Stock photography has its place: for abstract topics, for symbolic images, when something is needed quickly. For everything that makes your company what it is, it is the wrong route.
A photo of your actual workshop shows your workshop – the best photo of someone else's cannot do that. And the shot is available to you alone, because nobody else can licence it. There is a practical point too: with stock images every use hangs on someone else's licence terms, which can change. With images from your own shoot the framework is settled once – though the agreed scope of use and the consents of the people shown still apply.

Which images are you missing right now?

Tell us where your website still has placeholders or stock photos. We will tell you which subjects would replace them, how much time a shoot needs for that and what it costs – before you decide.

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