A clear understanding of usage, audience, and context.
Cuetone Media produces commercially focused photography for brands, agencies, events, construction firms, and production companies across Auckland and nationwide.
Our work supports websites, campaigns, corporate communications, and social content with imagery that feels deliberate and professionally executed.
WinnerPeople's Choice PrizeAotearoa Music Photography Awards
We do
Commercial & Editorial
Campaign imagery and magazine-style brand storytelling, built to strengthen presence and marketing performance.
Events & Performance
Conferences, launches, gigs and live stage environments, covered with a cinematic sensibility.
Sport
Action, atmosphere, and competition: race day, training, and brand-led sport campaigns.
Construction & Infrastructure
High-resolution documentation of commercial builds, civil works, and industrial sites.
Architecture & Interiors
Imagery focused on material detail, spatial composition, and design integrity.
Each shoot begins withA plan together
- RecceWe see the location first and work out the cameras, lighting and kit it needs.
- Production planA plan shared with you before the shoot, with the schedule and delivery date.
- Shoot dayRun to schedule, with light and composition set for where each image will be used.
- Graded and deliveredEvery image graded and ready to use, whether it runs in digital, print or a campaign.
We plan lighting, composition and final use before we arrive, so every image works across digital, print and campaigns.
Head of Photography
Composition, light, visual clarity.
Xander James
Commercial campaigns, executive portraits, construction and live music, shot with a calm, structured presence on set.
Selected photography
Photo, answered.
- Cuetone is Auckland-based, but we shoot well beyond it. We work nationwide, including Wellington, Christchurch, Queenstown, Hamilton, Tauranga, Dunedin and Northland, and across Australia, including Melbourne and Sydney.
- Commercial and brand, events, music, performance and entertainment, sport, corporate and executive portraiture, construction and infrastructure, architecture and interiors, editorial and lifestyle, product and still life, and aerial.
- Yes. We hold a CAA Part 102 drone certification and capture aerial stills where a project calls for it.
- Yes. We work independently or integrate cleanly into larger productions.
- We start with a recce and a production plan, so the shoot day runs to plan. Then we grade and deliver.
- As early as you can, especially for events with a fixed date. If itโs short notice, get in touch anyway and weโll tell you whatโs possible.
- We agree usage with you up front, as part of the quote, so you know exactly where and how the images can be used. Tell us where they need to run: web, social, print, advertising or all of it.
- Every project is quoted to its brief, because the number of shoot days, locations and images all change the cost. Tell us what youโre making and where it needs to run, and weโll come back with a clear quote and plan.
