Timelapse Photography
Capture the Big Picture Over Time

Stand out with high‑definition timelapse video that shows progress, impact and transformation.

Showcase your construction milestones, event setups, or large-scale transformations with a captivating time-lapse video. By condensing days, weeks, or even months into a short, high-quality video, you can tell a compelling visual story that highlights key milestones, transformations and achievements.

At Striking Places, we create high-definition time-lapse footage in Hertfordshire and across the UK. Our videos condense weeks or months of activity into a short, dynamic story your clients, stakeholders, and social followers will remember.

Whether you’re in construction, events, manufacturing, or other industry that benefits from showcasing transformation, our professional timelapse solutions help you stand out.

What is Timelapse Photography?

Timelapse photography captures images at regular intervals and then combines them into a fast-motion video. This approach lets you:

  • Turn months of site progress into seconds of compelling footage that’s easy to share
  • Create marketing-ready videos that highlight milestones and achievements.
  • Monitor and document projects while staying focused on your work.

Whether you are building, landscaping, hosting an event, or running an industrial process, timelapse video brings your story to life and gives your audience a front-row seat to progress.

Industries That Benefit from Timelapse Photography

Timelapse photography is a powerful tool for businesses across multiple sectors:

Construction & Engineering

  • Record a build from groundbreaking to completion.
  • Share progress with clients.
  • Keep stakeholders informed.
  • Produce a high-impact video for marketing and investor updates.

Events & Exhibitions

  • Document set-up, the live event and take-down.
  • Create high-impact promotional videos for future marketing campaigns of events.
  • Showcase behind-the-scenes work that goes into event production.
  • Attract future exhibitors and visitors.

Manufacturing & Industrial Projects

  • Demonstrate production processes and assembly lines clearly and engagingly.
  • Provide training and educational visuals for staff and clients.
  • Produce before and after records.
  • Use timelapse videos as case studies for future business development.

Landscaping & Environmental Projects

  • Show the transformation of outdoor spaces over time.
  • Monitor the impact of environmental changes or conservation efforts.
  • Use before-and-after visuals to highlight success stories on websites and social media.
  • Include in tenders or client proposals to secure future work.

How Our Timelapse Process Works

  1. Free Consultation – We’ll chat about your objectives and our deliverables, the site, where to install the cameras and how long we’ll need to film
  2. Camera Installation – We’ll set up robust, weatherproof cameras to capture everything at the appropriate intervals from the best vantage points
  3. Periodic updates – for longer projects and at agreed intervals, we’ll update the cameras, capture more drone footage and aerial photos and provide interim content.
  4. Post-Production & Delivery – We’ll edit your footage, add music, coach you to create a voiceover, create captions, provide optional drone shots and add your branding, then deliver a ready-to-use video

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Case Studies

How It Works

Jo Hailey of Striking Places with a Keep Calm and Google mug, ready to chat about your shoot

1.
Have a Chat

Call me or fill in the form. We’ll talk about what you need and I’ll send you a quote. There’s no obligation.

Jo Hailey of Striking Places taking commercial photos in a client's office

2.
I Take the Photos

I’ll come to you and photograph your premises, your team and your work. I’ll let you know beforehand how to get ready.

Vape shop interior photographed to show off the business on Google

3.
Use Them Everywhere

Your edited photos come in an online gallery, ready for your website, social media and Google Business Profile.

Why Choose Me

I’ve been photographing businesses since 2012. I’ve published more than 22,000 images on Google and they’ve been viewed over 100 million times. I’ve been one of the top 20 Google Trusted Photography companies in the UK and won a Gold Award as a Google Trusted Photographer. I’m also a member of the Association of Photographers (AOP).

I work with everyone from small independent shops to national chains. People come back because I turn up when I said I would and deliver what I promised. You can see what they say in my 130 plus five star Google reviews.

No hidden extras. Edits and changes are included in the price. If the weather’s bad on the day, we’ll move the shoot. I’m not happy until you are.

Faqs

Yes. You get a finished time lapse film, with drone footage at the start and end if you'd like it, plus licensed music and your branding. It's ready for your website, presentations and social media.

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I set up a camera that takes a photo at set times over hours, days or months. Then I turn the photos into a short film. It's ideal for building projects, landscaping, installations and event setups.

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