Most of what we photograph moves under its own power in the obvious sense, a car drives, a property gets walked through. The Mangobot A2 Ultra was a different kind of subject. It’s a nearly 170cm humanoid robot built for hotel lobbies, retail floors and corporate reception desks, and Mangobot brought us in to shoot
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Most unusual cars we photograph are unusual in ways we already know how to handle: rare paint, aggressive bodywork, aftermarket wheels, a wrap that changes the entire character of the car. This Maybach 62S was different. Almost every visible surface had been hand-painted by Alec Monopoly, including the interior, and it was being photographed for
Most people assume product videography is the easy version of what we do, the subject doesn’t move, there’s no weather, no client walking around a set. A recent shoot of an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Double Balance Wheel Openworked, a black ceramic piece listed at AED 1,000,000, for a Dubai dealer proved that assumption wrong
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A lot of video content underperforms for a reason that has nothing to do with the footage itself: it was shot in the wrong orientation for where it was going to run. A cinematic horizontal video built for a 16:9 property walkthrough gets cropped and letterboxed into a tiny strip on Instagram Stories. A vertical
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The front three-quarter: the angle buyers see first, whether they realise it or not Dubizzle allows up to 20 photos on a single car listing. In our experience shooting for sellers across Dubai, most listings never get close to that. We tell every client to maximise the count, use everything the platform gives you, and
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Aerial photography is one of the biggest trends in real estate marketing right now, and the numbers behind it are real: listings with aerial shots reportedly get significantly more views and sell faster than listings without. So why do so few Dubai listings actually have drone footage, even from agencies that could clearly afford it?
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Contact at a full gallop, the kind of moment that doesn’t wait for a photographer to be ready Most event photography gives you some control over pace. A wedding has a schedule. A property walkthrough happens on your terms. A polo match does neither. That’s become clear from a recent shoot covering polo matches at
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When a car sells locally, a buyer can drive to Sharjah, sit in it, start it, and walk away if something feels off. That option disappears the moment the buyer is in London, or Los Angeles, or anywhere outside the UAE. They’re not coming to look at the car. They’re deciding whether to bid tens
Sony announced a new FX5 on July 22, and it’s caused some confusion already, because there was already an FX5 before this one. Sony’s own line is that this isn’t a Mark II. It borrows more from VENICE 2 and BURANO than from the Alpha-style cameras it visually resembles, and it slots in as a
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I still get the same WhatsApp message most weeks: “my car’s been up for three weeks and nobody’s calling.” Usually the car’s fine and the price is fine too. Usually the photos are the problem, three dark shots taken in a parking garage at an angle that makes a decent SUV look like a write-off.
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