About DeWitt Studios
DeWitt Studios is a commercial photography, video, and digital marketing studio in Richmond, Virginia. We make the content businesses use to sell themselves, and we run the marketing that puts it in front of people.
Companies that need both usually hire two vendors: one to shoot, one to market. Then they spend their own time keeping the two in sync, forwarding files, and explaining the brand twice. Doing both under one roof is the reason this studio is built the way it is.
Fifteen Years Behind the Camera
Sean DeWitt has been shooting since he was twelve. His father was a photographer and his mother loved the arts, so the cameras and the habit were around the house early. It became a profession about fifteen years ago and has not stopped since.
The commercial work grew out of that: brand and product photography, business portraits, event coverage, and video. The marketing side came later, for a practical reason. Good photography does not do much sitting in a folder. Someone has to post it, write around it, and put a budget behind it, and that work kept turning out to be inseparable from the work of making it.
What We Do
We work in two halves that fit together.
The content: commercial photography, business portraits, event photography, and video content creation, including business commercials, brand spotlights, and client testimonials.
The marketing around it: social media marketing, social media graphic design, Google Ads management, and search optimization for Google and for AI answer engines.
You can hire us for one half or both. They are sold separately and they work better together.
We Shoot the Content Ourselves
This is the part that genuinely separates us from a marketing agency.
Most social media agencies do not produce anything. They schedule, caption, and report on assets you supply. When you run out, they fall back on stock images that look like every other company’s stock images. That is not a knock on scheduling. It is simply a different job.
We shoot what we post. Business commercials, brand spotlights, client testimonials, event coverage, and stills, all produced in house. If a campaign needs three new photographs and a thirty second video, we go get them. You are never the bottleneck in your own marketing, and you are never asked to send us something from your phone to fill a gap.
How We Work
You own everything. Your social accounts, your ad account, your followers, your content history, and the photography and video we produce for you. If you ever stop working with us, none of it leaves with us. That should be the standard, and it is worth saying plainly because it often is not.
We work by appointment. Shoots happen at your location, on site, or wherever the work actually is.
We are local, and for this kind of work that matters. Fifteen years in this market is fifteen years of knowing the venues, the light, the traffic, and what a Richmond audience actually responds to.
Areas We Serve
We are based in Richmond and work throughout Greater Richmond, including Henrico, Chesterfield, Hanover, Goochland, Powhatan, New Kent, and Charles City counties, along with Ashland, Glen Allen, Short Pump, Midlothian, Mechanicsville, Chester, Colonial Heights, Hopewell, and Petersburg. We travel regularly to Charlottesville, Fredericksburg, and the Hampton Roads area.
Questions About Working With Us
Do I have to hire you for both content and marketing?
No. Plenty of clients hire us only to shoot, or only to run social and ads using content they already have. The two work better together, but they are sold separately.
Who owns the photos and video you produce?
You do, under the terms of your agreement. The same goes for your social accounts and your ad account. We do not hold a client’s assets as a retention strategy.
Do you work with businesses outside Richmond?
Yes. Greater Richmond is where most of our work happens, and we regularly travel to Charlottesville, Fredericksburg, and Hampton Roads. Anything further is worth a conversation.
How long have you been doing this?
Sean has been shooting professionally for about fifteen years. The digital marketing services are a newer addition to what we offer, though we are not new to this market or to the businesses in it.
Can we start with one project instead of an ongoing commitment?
Yes. A single shoot or a one off video is a normal way to start, and it is a fair way to find out whether we are a good fit before anyone commits to more.
What do you need from us to get started?
A conversation about what you are trying to sell and who you are trying to reach. From there we will tell you what we would shoot, what we would run, and what it would take.
Interested In Working With Us?
Tell us what you are working on. We will tell you what we would do about it, and what it would take to get there.