Jelly beans, cola bottles and gummy bears caught in mid-air with the lid still hanging above the tub.Built in the studio rather than generated, so every sweet in the frame is the actual product a customer receives.

A tub of sweets frozen mid burst against a purple gradient.

Exploding Sweet Tub

A relaxed, seated business headshot with the hands settled on the table, which takes the stiffness out of a corporate portrait.Shot against a textured grey backdrop that suits a website team page, a LinkedIn profile and print alike.

A seated business headshot on a mottled grey backdrop.

Corporate Studio Headshot

A curved turquoise glass facade photographed across the forecourt, with the cycle path leading the eye into the building.Waited on a clear day so the glazing reads as glass rather than a flat grey panel.

A modern headquarters building shot across its forecourt.

Curved Glass Headquarters

Ten cast hooks and their screws, arranged as one flat lay so a customer can see exactly what is in the box before they buy.Shot on white with even light and basic retouching, ready to drop straight into a listing, a catalogue page or an Amazon gallery.

A ten-piece hook set laid out on white with its fixings.

Cast Iron Coat Hooks

A musician photographed with flute and concert harp in a period drawing room, lit to hold both the gilding and the window behind.A portrait built around what somebody actually does, rather than sitting them in front of a backdrop.

A musician photographed with her instruments in a period room.

Flautist and Harp

A drone frame over a distribution park, with the cleared development land in the foreground and farmland running to the horizon.Aerial work of this kind shows a site in its context, which no ground-level photograph can do.

A drone view over a distribution park and the land around it.

Distribution Park from the Air

Photographed in a booth seat in the working office itself, with the orange upholstery doing the job a studio backdrop usually does.Natural, unposed business photography for a website, an annual report or a recruitment campaign.

A staff portrait made on location in a working office.

Office Call Portrait

Four colourways of the same bottle lined up as a range shot, with the hourly markers kept legible across all four.Shot in a single pass so the colours, reflections and highlights match exactly between them.

A four-bottle range shot as one line-up on white.

Gradient Water Bottles

A tight actor headshot made outdoors, with the background thrown well back so nothing competes with the eyes.Casting directors look at the face first, so everything else in the frame is kept quiet.

A close actor headshot made outdoors in soft daylight.

Actor Headshot in Daylight

Shot in the short window at dusk when the interior lighting and the sky balance, which is the only time a glazed frontage looks like this.Straight on and level, so the symmetry of the building does the work.

A glazed building frontage photographed at twilight.

Glazed Atrium at Dusk

A supplement bottle with two capsules placed in front of it, lit to keep the gradient label clean and readable at thumbnail size.The reflection is real rather than added, which keeps the bottle sitting on the surface instead of floating above it.

Supplement bottle and capsules on a reflective white surface.

Vitamin B Complex

A costumed studio portrait, kneeling on the hilt of the sword with the great helm set down alongside.Lit low and warm against a mottled backdrop so the mail reads as metal rather than grey cloth.

A costumed studio portrait in chainmail with sword and helm.

Kneeling Knight

An elevated pass across a modernist residential block, high enough to separate the tower from the lower balconied wing.Flown to put the building against the treeline rather than against the sky.

An elevated drone view of a modernist residential block.

Modernist Residential Tower

A candid turn to camera at a working desk, with the screens behind deliberately thrown out of focus.The kind of frame a business needs when stock photography would look obviously borrowed.

A working desk portrait shot on location.

Office Desk Portrait

Three butterflies folded from real banknotes, photographed and then composited into a summer garden.Made for editorial and campaign work, where a straight photograph of money would say nothing at all.

Butterflies folded from banknotes, flying over a garden.

Banknote Butterflies

A studio headshot finished in black and white, where the coat and the backdrop carry the tone and the face carries the picture.Supplied in colour as well, so one sitting covers both a casting profile and a press page.

A monochrome studio headshot against a graduated backdrop.

Headshot in Black and White

Photographed from the open ground in front, taking in the paths, the planting and the people using the space.Architecture is rarely just the building, so the setting is left in rather than cropped away.

A curved modern building seen from the public space in front of it.

Curved Campus Building

A straight-on pack shot with the zip line, carry handle and printed crest all held sharp, because on a product page the detail is the sales pitch.Cut out on white and supplied with an unlimited commercial use licence, so it can run wherever the brand needs it.

A black laptop backpack photographed square on white.

Commuter Backpack

A suited figure in a concrete underpass, with the light effect built into the open hand afterwards.Conceptual portraiture for editorial and personal-brand work, where the location does as much as the subject.

A suited portrait in a concrete underpass with an added light effect.

Underpass Portrait

A new steel-clad unit going up alongside the existing factory, with the groundworks, plant and site huts all visible in one frame.Repeat aerial visits are the simplest way to document a build from the first dig through to handover.

A drone view of a new industrial unit under construction.

Philip Hunton Photography, commercial, product and portrait photographer in Newcastle upon Tyne