Photograph by Samuel Mfinanga
Lincoln, NE — Denver, CO
Sports · Portrait · Motion · Commercial

Every frame,
earned.

A studio for the work that lasts — planned with intent, delivered with a standard that doesn’t move.

Selected Work

A few frames worth slowing down for.

Athlete coverage - Nebraska athletics
Athlete coverage - Nebraska athletics
Game day - peak action
Game day - peak action
Editorial portrait - studio
Editorial portrait - studio
Senior portrait - studio
Senior portrait - studio
Executive portrait - Lincoln
Executive portrait - Lincoln
Portrait - environmental
Portrait - environmental
Brand film - executive imagery
Brand film - executive imagery
Campaign cutdown - still frame
Campaign cutdown - still frame
Brand campaign - Nebraska
Brand campaign - Nebraska
Product and brand - delivery
Product and brand - delivery
Brand campaign - commercial
Brand campaign - commercial
Executive portrait - private studio
Executive portrait - private studio
The Disciplines

Four kinds of work. One standard.

01 - Sports

Sports

MaxPreps-anchored athletics: game-day action, team portraits, full-season packages, and athlete branding.

Sports photograph
02 - Corporate Motion

Corporate Motion

Brand films, executive imagery, and campaign cutdowns built for real business use - not stock substitutes.

Corporate Motion photograph
03 - Portrait

Portrait

Senior, family, and executive sessions - editorial direction and honest pacing. Images worth framing.

Portrait photograph
04 - Commercial

Commercial

Brand campaigns and product libraries your marketing team can run for months - planned around real deliverables.

Commercial photograph
Based in Lincoln

Working wherever the work is.

Samuel Mfinanga has spent a career behind the camera — documenting athletes at full speed, executives at their sharpest, and families at their most real, across Nebraska and Colorado.

The strongest studios do more than take good photographs. They remove friction before the session and create value long after the gallery is delivered. Planning, direction, finished delivery — that discipline is the whole point.

About Samuel
Portrait direction by Samuel Mfinanga
How it works

A directed, efficient production.

01

Scope

A short conversation about the work, the deliverables, the timeline, and where the images will live.

02

Plan

Shot list, locations, art direction, and a schedule that protects your team's time on the day.

03

Shoot

Stills, motion, or both - directed enough to feel polished, relaxed enough to feel like you.

04

Deliver

An organized, ready-to-run gallery with the crops and formats your channels need, on time.

Scope, timeline, and investment are shaped around what you actually need — then shared during a consultation. No packages guessed at from a webpage.

Start a Project

Tell us what you’re trying to make. We’ll build a shoot around it.

No automated runaround — a straight conversation about the work, the timeline, and where it needs to run.

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