You've seen those websites: perfect teeth, glass office, a handshake in front of a laptop. Nobody believes those people work at a barbershop on Avenue U.
Why real wins
Customers aren't choosing a website, they're choosing whether to walk into your place. Real photos answer their real questions. Is it clean? Do people like me go there? Does the work look good? Stock photos answer nothing and quietly say "we're hiding something."
You don't need a studio
A modern phone in daylight is enough. Shoot the front of your shop (people need to recognize it), your workspace mid-work, your hands doing the thing you do, and finished results. Ten honest photos beat one perfect one.
What we do
When we build a site, we come to your business and take the photos ourselves. It's included, because a website with stock photos is a suit with the tags still on.