Visual Stories That Build Your Brand
Karen Images is an Atlanta Commercial Photographer and production partner providing commercial photography, video, professional audio, and production services for brands, businesses, organizations, agencies, and live events.
Atlanta • Georgia • Worldwide
Every Brand Has a Story to Tell
We Help You Tell That Story
Your audience forms an impression of your organization long before they read the first paragraph. The people, places, products, spaces, and experiences they see become part of how they understand your brand.
Commercial Photographer Karen Images creates original photography and films designed around that reality—visual content created specifically for your organization, your audience, and the places where your brand needs to show up.

From executive portraits and corporate culture to architecture, events, advertising, social campaigns, and cinematic video, we bring photography and production together under one creative direction.
More Than a Commercial Photographer
Metro Productions is the parent company of Karen Images licensed in the state of Georgia as Metro Productions, LLC d/b/a Karen Images since 2015 to reflect the addition of audio services, film making, and event production management through strategic partnerships formed over decades in the event industry.
Architectural Photography
Architectural, interior, hospitality, commercial property, and aerial imagery that captures the design, atmosphere, and intent behind a space.

Spaces designed to be experienced
Marketing & Culture
Authentic people, workplace, lifestyle, and marketing imagery created specifically for your organization.
Corporate Headshots
Executive portraits, corporate headshots, team photography, and consistent visual identity for organizations of every size.
Event Photography
Corporate events, conferences, galas, launches, celebrations, and live experiences documented with an editorial eye.
Aerial Imaging
Professional aerial photography and drone imaging for architecture, development, construction, commercial property, events, and marketing.

See your project from another perspective
Video Production
Photography Captures the Moment.
Film Makes It Move.
Some stories need more than a single frame.
Our video production brings together cinematography, interviews, sound, motion, editing, and
storytelling to create films that communicate your brand with clarity and emotion.
From corporate communications and brand films to testimonials, social content, documentaries, and live productions,
we approach video with the same attention to story, visual quality, and production detail that defines our photography.
BRAND FILMS
Stories that communicate who you are.
CORPORATE FILMS
Leadership, communications, training, recruiting and organizational storytelling.
INTERVIEWS
Interviews, podcasts and testimonials. Real people. Authentic voices. Professionally produced.
DOCUMENTARIES
Long form storytelling with depth and purpose.
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SHORT FORM VIDEO
Short form content designed for today’s platforms.
Turn One Production Into a Month of Content
Your brand doesn’t need to reinvent itself every time you need something to post.
We create short-form video designed around your brand, your audience, and the platforms where you communicate. A single production can generate a library of polished Reels, vertical videos, interviews, behind-the-scenes moments, product stories, and branded content you can use throughout the month.
Create once. Stay visible.
EVENT & LIVE PRODUCTION
More Than Coverage. A Production Partner.
Capture the experience as it happens
From photography and cinematic video to professional audio and live-event production, we help organizations create and execute experiences that look, sound, and feel right.
Through our strategic partnership with Event Production Services, we can extend production capabilities beyond visual content to include professional audio and comprehensive event production support, giving clients a coordinated team for the entire production.
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ONE PRODUCTION – AN ENTIRE LIBRARY OF CONTENT
A single production can become much more than a gallery of finished photographs.
We can design productions to create a library of original visual assets for your website,
advertising, social media, recruiting, public relations, presentations, campaigns, and future communications.
Photography, video, interviews, b-roll, portraits, aerial imagery and short-form content can all be planned together,
giving your organization more ways to use the investment.
EXPERIENCE MATTERS
The Comfort of Knowing It’s Handled.
Commercial productions have moving parts.
Locations. Schedules. Executives. Employees. Talent.
Clients. Lighting. Audio. Equipment. Deliverables. Deadlines.
The photography or video is only one part of the job.
We plan for the rest.
CREATIVE DIRECTION
We begin with what your visual content needs to accomplish.
PRODUCTION
We coordinate the people, locations, equipment and logistics required to execute the project.
EXPERIENCE
Nearly three decades behind the camera means we’ve learned how to anticipate problems before they become problems.
DELIVERY
Professionally finished photography and video prepared for the ways your organization actually needs to use it.
Experience Built in High-Stakes Environments
We Learned On The Job Many Years Ago
The environments we photograph are often the result of months or years of planning, design, construction, and investment. The photography has to do more than document the finished space. It has to represent the people and organizations behind it at the highest level.
Our work has taken us inside corporate headquarters, architectural landmarks, major events, and nationally recognized organizations where there is no second opportunity to get the image right.
From Porsche Cars North America and Porsche Financial Services to the Miss America Pageant and major corporate and commercial projects, we bring the same approach to every assignment.
We prepare. We understand the objective. We anticipate the challenges.
And we create imagery designed to perform.
TRUSTED WHEN THE DETAILS ARE EVERYTHING
Porsche Cars North America
Corporate Headquarters • One Porsche Drive
From executive portraits to corporate events and architectural imagery, our experience with Porsche has included documenting the people, spaces, and experiences surrounding one of Atlanta’s most recognizable corporate campuses.

Porsche Financial Services
Corporate Events • Brand Experiences • Executive Communications

Photography and video supporting high-level corporate meetings, employee experiences, presentations, and live events where timing, discretion, and production reliability are essential.
Miss America
National Event Production • Photography • Video
Our production experience extends into nationally recognized live events, including photography, video, and behind-the-scenes production for the Miss America and Miss America Teen competitions.

McShane Construction
Spaces Designed to Be Seen

We photograph completed architectural environments for the architects, developers, contractors, designers, owners, and marketing teams responsible for bringing them to life. From carefully composed architectural photographs to aerial imagery and environmental storytelling.
The Process – From Brief to Delivery
1. DISCOVER
Understand your organization, audience, objectives and intended use.
2. PLAN
Build the creative approach, production schedule, locations, talent and deliverables.
3. PRODUCE
Create the photography and video assets.
4. REFINE
Select, retouch, edit, color grade and finish.
5. DELIVER
Receive finished assets ready for your website, marketing, advertising, social media or internal communications.
KAREN & TROY

Three Decades of Creativity
Since 1997, Karen and Troy Burns have built a career around helping organizations tell stories visually.
Led by Master Photographer Karen Burns, what began with photography evolved into commercial imaging, documentary storytelling, cinematic video, aerial production, and large-scale live-event work.
Today, Karen Images brings those disciplines together to provide clients with a creative production partner capable of seeing the entire picture.

FAQs
Karen Images provides commercial photography for organizations that need polished, strategic visual content for marketing, communications, recruiting, public relations, websites, social media, and print. Our services include architectural and interior photography, executive and corporate headshots, employee and workplace culture photography, environmental portraits, corporate events, branded content, product and lifestyle imagery, aerial imaging, and custom marketing campaigns.
We create photographs that do more than look good, they help communicate who you are, what you do, and why your organization matters.
Yes. Karen Images produces both commercial photography and professional video content. Our team can create a unified visual library that includes photography, brand videos, interviews, testimonials, social media content, event coverage, recruitment videos, culture videos, mini documentaries, keynote coverage, and other custom productions.
Working with one creative partner helps maintain visual consistency across your website, sales materials, social channels, presentations, campaigns, and internal communications.
Yes. In addition to commercial photography and video production, we provide professional audio services and can support full event production. Through our strategic partnership with Event Production Services, we can coordinate expanded production capabilities for conferences, corporate events, live productions, meetings, launches, and other large-scale experiences.
Yes. Many clients choose to capture photography and video during the same production. This approach can be more efficient for your team, reduce disruptions to employees and locations, and create a cohesive collection of visual assets for multiple use
For example, during one workplace/culture production, we can photograph employees in action, create executive portraits, capture short video interviews, and produce vertical social clips for LinkedIn, Instagram, or other platforms.
Yes. We work directly with in-house marketing and communications teams, advertising agencies, creative agencies, public relations firms, event planners, and production partners. We can execute an established creative direction or help develop a visual approach that supports your campaign objectives.
Our team is comfortable integrating into existing workflows, collaborating with creative directors and account teams, and delivering organized assets that are practical for campaign rollout.
Yes. Karen Images is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and serves organizations throughout the Southeast and beyond. We travel for commercial photography, video production, architectural assignments, corporate events, conferences, and multi-location marketing projects.
Share your project location, dates, and scope, and we will provide a proposal that accounts for production needs and travel logistics.
Yes. Architectural photography is a core Karen Images service and our first camera was a Sinar f1 4×5 large format camera bought for architectural photography. We photograph commercial buildings, offices, hospitality spaces, healthcare environments, retail locations, educational facilities, multifamily properties, corporate interiors, and other built environments.
We create imagery for architects, interior designers, builders, developers, property owners, real estate professionals, hospitality teams, and organizations that need their spaces to look as strong online as they do in person.
Yes. Corporate culture photography helps organizations show the people, purpose, and everyday experience behind their brand. We create natural, polished imagery of employees collaborating, serving clients, working on-site, participating in meetings, engaging with leadership, and representing your organization in the community.
These images can support recruiting, employer branding, websites, annual reports, internal communications, public relations, social media, and marketing campaigns.
Yes. We document, and can fully produce: corporate events, conferences, meetings, conventions, leadership gatherings, award programs, fundraisers, product launches, keynote presentations, and client experiences. Our event photography captures both the major moments and the details that show the scale, energy, and value of your event.
We can also provide next day pre-release images for social media, media relations, sponsor recognition, presentations, and on-site screens.
Yes. Karen Images provides aerial photography and video for qualifying commercial projects, properties, events, and marketing campaigns. Aerial imaging can be especially effective for architecture, commercial real estate, construction, hospitality, large-scale venues, corporate campuses, and outdoor events.
All drone coverage is planned around airspace requirements, venue rules, local regulations, weather, safety considerations, and the needs of the production.
Yes. We create custom photography that is designed around your brand, audience, message, and intended uses. Instead of relying on generic stock images, your organization can build an authentic visual library featuring your own people, locations, customers, products, services, and culture.
We can help plan a one-day content shoot or a larger multi-location campaign, then deliver imagery tailored for websites, paid advertising, social media, print, email marketing, recruitment, sales presentations, and public relations.
Yes. We create social-first video content for LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, websites, and digital advertising. Depending on your goals, this may include short-form vertical videos, employee or customer stories, behind-the-scenes content, event highlights, executive thought-leadership clips, product or service demonstrations, and campaign specific creative.
We can plan content in a way that produces multiple edited assets from one production day, giving your marketing team a useful library rather than a single video.
Yes. Karen Images produces polished corporate interviews, leadership messages, employee stories, customer testimonials, case study videos, recruitment videos, and brand documentaries. We can handle the planning, creative direction, interview setup, lighting, audio, filming, editing, graphics, and delivery formats.
Our goal is to help real people communicate clearly and comfortably on camera while creating content that feels authentic, credible, and aligned with your brand.
Yes. We help clients identify the imagery and video assets that will best support their goals before production begins. We start with your audience, message, channels, timeline, and intended uses, then recommend a focused plan for the content you need.
This may include a shot list, interview questions, location recommendations, production schedule, talent guidance, wardrobe considerations, deliverable list, and a plan for adapting assets across your website, social media, sales efforts, recruiting, public relations, and internal communications.
Every project begins with a conversation about your objectives, audience, schedule, locations, deliverables, and how the content will be used. From there, we develop a proposal and production plan tailored to the assignment.
Once approved, we coordinate the creative direction, schedule, locations, crew, equipment, shot list, talent, interviews, and logistics. After the production, we professionally edit and organize your photography and video assets for efficient review and delivery.
We recommend contacting Karen Images as early as possible, especially for large campaigns, architectural photography, conferences, multi-location shoots, or productions involving video, interviews, talent, permits, drone coverage, or a larger crew.
Some smaller assignments can be accommodated on a shorter timeline, depending on availability. If you have a deadline, reach out with your preferred production date, delivery needs, location, and scope, and we will let you know what is possible.
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Have a Project in Mind?
Tell us what you’re creating, where it will be used, and what you need it to accomplish. We’ll help you determine the right creative and production approach.
Look Your Best on Camera Without the Guesswork.
This free “Preparing for Your Photo Shoot” guide from KarenImages.com gives your team clear, professional tips on everything from hydration, sleep, and skincare to wardrobe, fit, and color choices so everyone shows up confident and camera-ready.
Inside, you will find simple recommendations for body, clothing, and grooming, plus dedicated guidance for men and women on hair, makeup, jewelry, and what to avoid so your images look polished instead of distracting.
Share it with your executives, staff, and partners before your next session to reduce day-of questions, save time on set, and get stronger portraits and team photos from every shoot.
Download the free PDF now and give your organization an easy, done-for-you prep resource from the team at Karen Images.











