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Visual production studio · Hawaiʻi

Made in the elements.

A two-person studio on the Island of Hawaiʻi. We shoot brand campaigns where products prove themselves — and the hotels, resorts, and rentals people cross oceans to stay in.

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images/brand-01.jpgSignature brand frame — gear in surf, on lava, in rain. The Yeti-in-the-shorebreak shot.
Product photographed in Hawaiʻi surf
For brands

Content shot where it counts.

Campaign stills and motion for gear, outdoor, and lifestyle brands — in salt water, on lava rock, at first light.

Brand content →
images/stay-01.jpgSignature hospitality frame — lanai, pool, or suite at golden hour.
Hawaiʻi resort at golden hour
For hospitality

Photos guests book on sight.

Interiors, aerials, and twilight for hotels, inns, and vacation rentals across the Hawaiian Islands.

Spaces & stays →
Brand content

Your product, tested by the island.

Studio shots tell people what a product looks like. The elements tell them what it's made of. We build campaign imagery around proof — durability, performance, and place — with the Pacific as the test bench.

images/brand-02.jpgWide action frame — product/athlete in environment, landscape
Aerial of red 4x4 on a Hawaiian coastline
№ 01·Aerial·west coast·DJI
images/brand-03.jpgVertical detail — texture, salt spray, product close
Red 4x4 low-angle detail in storm light
№ 02·Low angle·storm light
Campaign stills Motion & vertical reels Aerial — FAA Part 107 Lifestyle & athlete Location scouting Post & color
Spaces & stays

The property, at its best hour.

Guests decide with their eyes, in seconds. We photograph hotels, inns, and vacation rentals the way guests want to imagine staying in them — sequenced around your property's light, delivered to OTA and brand specs, licensed for commercial use without expiry.

images/stay-02.jpgInterior or lanai — landscape, golden hour
Warm boutique suite with balcony and palm view
№ 03·Suite study·morning light
images/stay-03.jpgTwilight exterior or drone aerial — landscape
Resort pool at blue hour
№ 04·Blue hour·pool deck
Interiors & exteriors Drone aerials True twilight Lifestyle in-use frames Vertical reels for social Property film
Field projects

Campaigns we built because nobody asked us to.

Self-initiated shoots, run exactly like client work — a brief, a shot plan, a full edit. This is how we test ideas, and how you see precisely what your brand would get.

images/project-01.jpgHero frame from spec campaign #1 — e.g. cooler in the shorebreak
Saltproof spec campaign hero frame
Studio-initiated

Saltproof

A durability study. One cooler, three days of Pacific shorebreak, zero mercy — stills and a 45-second cut built like a product launch.
images/project-02.jpgHero frame from spec campaign #2 — e.g. boots/pack on lava at dawn
First Light spec campaign hero frame
Studio-initiated

First Light

Trail gear across a lava field before sunrise — a study in texture, weather, and the hour most brands never shoot in.
images/passion.jpgWild Hawaiʻi — native forest, coastline, wildlife. The frame that shows why you moved here.
Green sea turtle coming ashore
Ongoing field work

Kīpuka — a document of wild Hawaiʻi.

A kīpuka is an island of old-growth forest spared by a lava flow — life holding its ground. This is our long-term project photographing the island's native forests, coastlines, and the conservation work protecting them.

images/about.jpgThe two of you — candid, on location, mid-work. Vertical.
Nathan and Kayla of Aloha Studio Productions
About the studio

We traded the corporate ladder for the coastline.

Aloha Studio Productions is Nathan and Kayla — a two-person studio on the Island of Hawaiʻi, built on a bet that we'd do our best work in the place we most wanted to be.

Nathan spent years in enterprise tech helping the world's biggest companies tell stories with data. That discipline runs through every production: a real brief, a shot plan sequenced to the light, and work measured by whether it moves the numbers — bookings, conversions, sell-through.

Kayla is the eye in post. Every frame that leaves this studio passes through her edit — color, tone, and the restraint to know when an image is done. If our work has a signature, she's it.

In 2026 we left Houston, drove 3,000 miles of the American West with cameras rolling, and landed here. We shoot the way we chose this island — for the light, the texture, and the feeling you can't fake.

— Nathan & Kayla

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Tell us what you make. We'll show you where it belongs.

Every project is scoped to the brief. Send the basics and we'll reply within one business day with an approach and availability.

Emailalohastudioproductions@gmail.com
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StudioIsland of Hawaiʻi · shooting across all islands