Gabe Rene LLC | GR Studio & Co.
Look like the brand you're actually building.
Commercial photography, video, and brand strategy for businesses that are tired of looking smaller than they are.
Brands We've Worked With
The Problem
Your customers decide before you get to talk.
They land on your site. They scroll your feed. They see three stock photos, one blurry team shot from 2019, and a logo somebody’s nephew made.
They decide right there. Not about your product. About whether you’re worth taking seriously.
That decision is visual, it happens in about four seconds, and no amount of clever copy undoes it. You can be the best damn operator in your market and still get read as the cheap option, because your visuals said so before you opened your mouth.
Good news: that’s a fixable problem. It’s the only one we work on.
Your brand deserves better than stock photos and iPhone pics.
Start Here
Stop guessing. Get the diagnosis.
Before you spend a dollar on photos, video, or a rebrand, find out what's actually broken. The Brand Audit runs ten research engines across ten categories: visual identity, website, social, messaging, brand voice, competitors, visual content, business infrastructure, your funnel, and accessibility. You get a written diagnosis of what's costing you money and the order to fix it in.
- Ten research engines
- Competitive teardown
- Search + AI visibility
- Funnel gap analysis
- A prioritized fix list
This is where every commercial relationship here starts.
$997 through Halloween, October 31, 2026. Goes to $1,500 November 1. What you pay credits toward whatever you build next.
Texas Monthly
Published ad campaign. Our design, our photography.
7 Years
In house corporate marketing, advertising and design
$123K
In owned production gear, nothing rented onto your invoice
2-4 wk
Standard commercial turnaround
What We Do
Three ways in.
Most clients start with one and end up on all four. Nobody has to buy the whole damn thing on day one.
01
Brand Photography
Team, product, environment, and lifestyle work built as a library your marketing can actually pull from all year. Not twelve headshots and a handshake.
See how it works02
Video Production
Brand films, product spots, social cutdowns, and testimonial work. Shot, directed, and edited in house on gear we own.
See how it works03
Graphic & Web Design
Logos, brand identity, packaging, print, and websites. The design half of looking like a real company, and the discipline this studio started in.
See how it works04
Brand Strategy & Campaigns
The part most studios skip. What you're saying, who you're saying it to, and what the visuals are supposed to do once they exist.
See how it worksSelected Work
Real companies. Real rooms.
Breweries, wineries, boutiques, pharmacies, banks, clinics, restaurants, and shops. Hill Country businesses that needed to look like they meant it.
Turtle Creek Olive & Vine
Food & Hospitality
Altstadt Brewery
Product & Campaign
MC Designs
Product Photography
Happy Hooves
Brand & Environment
Riverhills Automotive
Team & Workplace
Turtle Creek Olive & Vine
Wine & Retail
How It Goes
No mystery. No creative black box.
You should know what's happening at every step, including the parts where we need something from you.
Professional, but we cuss a little.
- 01
We talk first
A real conversation about the business, not a questionnaire about your favorite colors. What are you selling, who's buying, and where the hell is it falling apart.
- 02
You get a plan and a number
Scope, deliverables, timeline, and cost in writing before anybody books anything. 50% holds the date.
- 03
Pre-production, two weeks out
Creative brief approved 7 days before we shoot. Shot list, locations, talent, wardrobe, props. The shoot day is execution, not brainstorming.
- 04
We shoot
We show up early with our own gear and our own crew. Half day is up to 5 hours, full day is up to 10.
- 05
Post and delivery
Commercial photography lands 2 to 4 weeks out. Brand films run 3 to 5. Everything arrives in an online gallery, licensed, and ready to use.
- 06
You actually use it
Files named and organized for the web, not dumped on you as DSC_0042. Ask about getting the images themselves indexed by Google and AI search.
We're not in the photography business. We're in the business of making sure the right people take your business seriously. Gabe Rene, Gabe Rene LLC
Plain English
We answer the WTFs.
Why is my competitor showing up and I'm not. What am I even supposed to post. Why did the last shoot cost that much and change nothing. Why does my brand look smaller than my business actually is. Nobody explains this stuff, because the confusion is billable. We'd rather just tell you.
Ask the dumb question. It's usually the right one.
Why Start There
Because the expensive mistake is buying the wrong thing.
Most businesses call a photographer when the real problem is that nobody can find them, the offer is confusing, or the funnel leaks like a screen door. New photos don’t fix any of those. They just make the leak better looking.
The audit is a separate practice on its own site, and it exists so you find out what’s actually broken before you spend money fixing the wrong half.
What you pay for it credits toward whatever you build next, so diagnosing first costs you nothing in the end. It just stops you buying a content day you didn’t need.
Where We Work
Kerrville based. Not Kerrville limited.
Home base is the Texas Hill Country. We work Kerrville, Fredericksburg, Boerne, Comfort, San Antonio, Austin, and Houston regularly, and we travel for the right project. Plenty of that work has not been in Texas at all. We built the brand for Space Bar up in Pittsburgh. If the project is right, the distance is a logistics problem, not a dealbreaker. Travel gets scoped and broken out line by line in your proposal, so you see every number before you sign anything. No hidden fees and nothing added after the fact.
Tell us where it is. We'll tell you what it takes to get there.