Mellow
Professional Media & Creative Services
It all starts with a message.
Tell us what you need to say to the world.
We will help you present it.
Right now · August 2026
Senior portrait season is open.
Senior year goes faster than anyone expects. Custom senior sessions on location around Atlanta —
the Beltline, Ponce, campus, or wherever your kid actually wants to be photographed.
$300 for up to two hours and ten finished photos. Full gallery +$100. Next-day delivery.
Cap and gown, street clothes, sports, instruments, all of it.
Guardian is required on set and always welcome in the frame.
This is separate from the yearbook portrait your school arranges. Most families do both.
Booked year-round
Professional Headshots
Individuals and teams. In our studio or on-site at your office. You pick the background, and we'll help with posing and styling.
Booking for yourself? Bring two friends or colleagues and split the session. Up to three people is $300 — that's $100 each, and everybody gets their own finished photo.
Booking for a team? We match the lighting and background across everyone, so nobody ends up looking like they were photographed at a different company.
Individual & Teams
Up to 3 people, at a studio
$300
Up to 10 people, at your office
$1000
Each person after that
$100
We budget fifteen minutes a person and average four or more an hour. Some people are done in two minutes, some take twenty. Nobody gets rushed. Photos come back the next day.
We take care of our people. Once you've worked with us, you get a yearly session at 50% off — $50 a person instead of $100. Refresh the whole team or just the people who need one. Same lighting, same background, so a year from now your team page still looks like it was shot in one afternoon.
Urgent new hire sessions are available on request, at a discount as well.
Commercial Drone
FAA Part 107 Certified
Licensed commercial drone work. Not a hobbyist with a camera — Part 107 is what lets us fly legally for hire, and it's the first thing your insurer and your client will ask about.
Roofing and insurance documentation. Full roof coverage without anyone climbing a ladder. Damage documentation, pre-and-post work, storm claims. You get files you can hand straight to an adjuster.
Real estate. Mellow partners with PinPoint Productions to manage strategy and editing. Aerial and ground coverage for listings with strategy that sells homes, fast.
Quoted per property. Stills come back next day, edited video in 48 hours.
Roofing & Real Estate
We do a lot of different things.
What is The Mellow Collective?
Mellow is a collective of artists and entrepreneurs who specialize in media production, marketing, editing, graphic design — we do a lot of different things.
Two sides to it.
Mellow Media handles professional work for businesses and entrepreneurs.
Headshots, drone, brand film, events, portraits, strategy. Clear pricing, published up front.
Creative is where we started and why the professional work is good. Music videos, short films, and visual work for independent artists. We take those projects on selectively. The craft we learned there is what we bring to every commercial job.
No mystery
Up to two hours of production, in one session.
Four hours of storage, culling, and editing.
Ten finished photos, delivered next day.
Two hours is the ceiling, not a target we're trying to hit. If we're going through the effort of scheduling a shoot, we'd rather not be rushed — so the time is there if the shoot needs it.
That $300 covers two hours of photo or one hour of video. (Video takes more time to edit)
Our General Rule:
One hour of filming video = 4 hours of post-production (coloring, assembling, exporting, etc.)
One hour of taking pictures = 2 hours of post-production (culling, organizing, cropping, etc.)
We'd rather you know that now than find out on the invoice.
That's the floor. Everything scales up from there, and you can do the math yourself before you ever message us.
What does $300 get you?
In an hour, we expect to get 10 really good photos. How do we ensure that?
It’s a numbers game.
To get 10 great photos, we take 1000. About 100 are in focus and decent. 10 are worth your money.
We take 1000 photos to capture the 1%.
That's why the first ten selects are the product. If you want to see the rest, the full gallery is another hundred dollars. All paid-for photo deliverables include a web-friendly JPG and a PNG at full crop.
You purchased that photo, it is yours to use however you'd like.
How we shoot photography
Strategy and counsel, online or in person
$100 / hour
$120 / hour
Production, on set
$50 / hour
Editing
Base Package (2 hrs production + 4 hrs editing = a deal!)
$300
+$100
Full selects gallery
$5 each
Additional photos
Photos come back the next day. Short-form video comes back in 48 hours. Longer projects take longer — graphics, effects, and polish add real time. We'll agree on a timeline before we start rather than guess at one now.
Booking is simple. Buying the base rate tells us you're serious. We put your date on the calendar and lock in the details.
We will decide during discovery if you’ll need additional time on set, editing, or other services. Quotes for scaled projects are billed 72 hours before the first day of production.
Not sure you're ready to spend $3,000 on a project? Spend $300 first. Up to two hours on set, four hours of editing, and we'll make the best deliverable we can with that budget.
If you like the style, we go bigger. If not, you still walk away with something you can use.
Questions?
Tell us what to make. Make it with us. Or let us teach you.
Every project at Mellow has three paths.
Tell us what to make.
You already know what you want. Bring us the brief and the budget and we'll execute it — no meetings, no discovery process, no strategy deck.
A reference image and a date is genuinely enough to get started. We show up, we shoot what you asked for, and you have it the next day.
This is the fastest and cheapest way to work with us, and there's nothing wrong with it. Starts at $300.
Make it with us.
You know something needs to exist but not exactly what. We sit down first and think through the edit and the purpose for the photo or video to exist.
What's it for? Where's it going? Who's it talking to?
Then we shoot to that answer instead of guessing at it. Costs more up front and usually saves money on the back end, because we're not paying to redo work that missed. Strategy sessions are $100 an hour, or $300 for four weekly sessions across a month.
Let us teach you.
You want to run this yourself eventually.
Instead of Mellow handling post-production, we sit with you — usually online — and talk you through how to do it: editing photos and video, social scheduling, automation, whatever's in your way.
Once you know how, you pay us for production and manage post yourself with full creative control. This isn't for everyone. But if it's what you're looking for, it's honestly what we prefer. $100 an hour.
Either way, you have a say and floor for input on every decision that gets made.
Meet Paul
Who takes your photos in Atlanta?
I'm a film and business junkie who spends his days writing, taking photos, editing, and playing music.
I’ve spent 40 hours a week for the last 5 years producing professional media for creative entrepreneurs, corporate businesses, fashion brands, and realtors.
I recently moved to Atlanta, and enjoy traversing the Beltline and ITP areas of this creative city.
I teach guitar when I'm not filming. I specialize in photography, cinematography, writing, and music.
FAA Part 107 certified. That means I'm licensed to fly commercially — roofing, real estate, insurance documentation, anything that needs to be shot from the air legally.
Mellow is bigger than me. I’m based in Atlanta, but I work with a collaborative network of artists, marketers, and designers to deliver a “bigger than me” experience. Because that is who Mellow is.
From
Paul Rasmussen
Mellow Roots
Where this started.
In 2018, Mellow Core Members started making music videos for independent artists. The craft we learned lighting faces, cutting to rhythm, and making people comfortable on camera is the same craft we bring to every headshot, brand film, and drone job.
It's still our creative outlet. We take those projects on selectively. The professional work pays the bills. This is why the professional work is good.
Questions people actually ask.
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$300. Up to two hours of production, four hours of storage and editing, ten finished photos. That's two hours of photo or one hour of video — video takes more edit time. Everything else scales from there.
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Next day. Mellow aims for next-day delivery on photography. Some projects are complicated. If longer turnaround times are expected, we can discuss a timeline that works for both parties.
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Short-form comes back in 48 hours. Longer projects take longer — graphics, effects, and polish add real time — so we agree on a timeline up front instead of guessing.
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The full selects gallery is another $100. That's usually somewhere between 20 and 100 images. Individual photos are $5 each.
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Yes. Full-resolution PNG at full crop. You purchased that photo, it is yours to use however you'd like.
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$2 a minute, agreed up front and confirmed by email before it's billed. We don't surprise people with invoices.
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Yes. In-person meetings are $100 plus $1 a mile from Ponce City Market. Shoots are quoted with travel included.
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Yes. FAA Part 107 certified.
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Always. Deliverables and expectations in writing before anyone pays anything. Full terms are at /terms.
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Yes, and we'd prefer it. You get a say and a floor for input on the decisions that get made. We can also just teach you how to do it yourself — some clients would rather learn than keep paying.
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Then say that. Plenty of people message us with a problem instead of a shot list — the website photos are five years old, or they know they should be posting and have no idea where to start. Tell us what's actually wrong and we'll tell you what we'd do about it and what it would cost. If the answer is that you need less than you thought, we'll say that too.
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We do, selectively. That's the creative side. Message us to inquire.
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Message Mellow. Tell us what you need. We'll put together a quote based on time on set and editing deliverables. Paying the base rate is what books the date — that's how we know you're serious, and it's what gets you on the calendar.
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We quote it and bill it 72 hours before production starts. Never after. If you book inside 72 hours, we settle it when you book. Either way, nothing gets added to your bill after the shoot.
It all starts with a message.
Tell us what you need to say to the world. We will help you present it.