[ Photography ]
Photography that sells the product, not the photographer
For anything sold online, the photograph is the product. The customer cannot hold it, weigh it or check the stitching — they can only look. Photography is where most of the buying decision is made and where most brands are still using phone shots on a bedsheet.
What we shoot
- Product photography — clean, consistent, e-commerce ready, correctly sized and named
- Brand and lifestyle — the product in context, for social and campaigns
- Commercial shoots — interiors, food, team and workspace
Shot for the platform it will run on
A marketplace listing, an Instagram grid and a printed catalogue want different crops, ratios and backgrounds. We shoot and deliver for all of them from one session, rather than handing over a folder you then have to crop yourself.
Consistent across the whole catalogue
A product range photographed across three sessions with different lighting looks like three different brands on a category page. We document the setup so the next batch of products matches the last, even months later.
How a shoot is planned
From the deliverables backwards. A marketplace listing needs a defined set of angles on white; a social campaign wants fewer, stronger frames with room for text; a printed catalogue needs resolution and colour accuracy that a phone screen never reveals.
We agree the list first, then shoot once for all of it, rather than handing over a folder you then have to crop yourself.
Consistency across a whole catalogue
A product range photographed across three sessions with different lighting looks like three different brands on a category page, and it is one of the fastest ways to look smaller than you are.
We document the setup — lighting, distance, angle, background — so the next batch matches the last, even months later and even if someone else shoots it.
Files you can actually use
Delivered in the sizes, crops and formats each destination needs, named sensibly, and compressed for the web without the mush that ruins detail on a product shot.
Photography that arrives as 40MB originals with camera filenames is a job half done — someone still has to do the other half before anything goes live.
Preparing for a shoot
Products should arrive clean, undamaged and in final packaging, with any variants you want photographed. It sounds obvious; retouching a scratched sample costs more than sending a good one.
For lifestyle and brand work we agree the look, the location and any people involved beforehand, so the shoot day is spent shooting rather than deciding.
How many images you actually need
Fewer than most catalogues contain, and more angles than most brands supply. A listing generally needs a defined set — front, back, detail, scale, in use — and repeating that set consistently across a range matters more than volume on any single product.
For social, a smaller number of strong frames beats a folder of variations. We will tell you which of the two you are actually short of.
Studio, on location, or both
Studio gives you control: consistent light, clean backgrounds, and images that sit together across a whole catalogue. On location gives you context — the product in a room, in a hand, in use — which is what social and advertising need.
Most brands need both, and the efficient answer is usually one session that produces both rather than two shoots months apart with different light.
Rights, usage and how long images last
You should know what you are allowed to do with the photographs before the shoot rather than discovering a limitation when you want to run them as ads.
Our commercial work is delivered for your own marketing use across web, social, print and advertising. Where a shoot involves models or a licensed location, any limits attached to that come with the quotation rather than in an email afterwards.
Turnaround and how images arrive
A first selection within a few days of the shoot, retouched finals after your picks, delivered as a link rather than a folder of attachments nobody can open.
Files come named in a way your team and your developer can both work with, in the sizes each destination needs, and compressed for the web without the mush that ruins detail on a product shot.
Common questions
- How many images do we get per product?
- Set by the package, and driven by where they will be used — a marketplace listing usually needs a defined set of angles, while a social campaign wants fewer, stronger frames.
- Do you retouch?
- Yes, and to a standard that keeps the product honest. Retouching that makes an item look like something the customer will not receive causes returns, not sales.
What’s included
- Product Photography
- Brand Photography
- Commercial Shoots
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