Product photography
A room, a macro lens, a shooting tent and a written method. What is not here yet is a body of finished work, which is the first thing this page should say.
A capability, described honestly
The state of this line, before anything else
The kit is in the studio and the workflow is written down. What does not exist yet is a catalogue of finished shoots, and a page implying one would be asking you to judge us on something you cannot see. Judge the method below, judge the equipment list, and judge the colour work in the crafts next door, because that part has been running for years.
Products arrive two weeks before the camera comes out
Whatever is being shot, from a work glove to a piece of jewellery, gets sent to the studio at least a fortnight ahead. That time is spent handling the thing: how a material takes light, how a surface behaves against a reflector, how the packaging opens and which side of it deserves the hero frame. Concepts get built around a real object rather than around a photograph of one.
Marketplace sets are held identical on purpose
For cut-out listings the tent goes up, the light is placed once and every product is shot from the same angle, so a listing grid reads as one brand instead of eleven separate afternoons. Concept frames can sit alongside the plain ones where the marketplace and the product both allow it, and that is a decision taken per brand, and this studio has no house rule about it.
The day is planned on paper and ticked off as it happens
Every scene, frame and concept detail is written into one file before the shoot, and each one is ticked as it is captured. Spare batteries, light checks and the props that build the concept are ready before anybody touches the camera. It is thoroughly unglamorous, and it is the difference between a wrap and a reshoot.
What is actually in the room
A tool list proves capacity, not craft. It is here because the portfolio is not, and it leaves when the portfolio arrives.
| Camera | Sony A7S III, twelve megapixels, which is ample at listing sizes |
|---|---|
| Macro lens | Sony FE 90 mm f/2.8 Macro G OSS |
| Second lens | Tamron 28-300 mm, adapted, for the wider set-ups |
| Continuous light | Godox SL60 II, Litemons 200, UL 150 |
| Modifiers | parabolic, octagon and rectangular softboxes, umbrella, two dish reflectors |
| Cut-out set | 80 cm shooting tent |
| Atmosphere | coloured practical lights |
One studio day, counted in what it yields
What a shoot day is built to produce
One long day designed to yield assets that keep working: several concepts per product, horizontal and vertical from the start, stills that can carry an advert, a listing, a carousel and a website hero without anyone going back for more.
What happens afterwards
Cut-outs, lighting and colour matched across the set, a bespoke LUT where the brand has a look worth holding, then everything sorted into folders a stranger could navigate. Alternative treatments are shown even when there is a clear favourite, and the raw files go to the brand, which is a photography rule; the video policy is different and lives in the terms.
The room is built and the method is written; the portfolio is not, and pretending otherwise would be the least convincing picture on this page.
The state of this line, said before you have to ask.
What changes for you
Listings that hold one angle and one light across a whole catalogue, lifestyle frames that can carry an advert as well as a post, and a first shoot you get to judge on its own frames.
Related: Production and shoots · Statics and carousels · Product knowledge · Ad creative · Colour grading
Send the store or the feed and we will read the images as a buyer would: consistency, clarity, what sells and what stalls. The reading comes back in writing.
Request your free audit.
Three fields, and a written reading back: a fit snapshot, two or three prioritised opportunities, and a recommended next step.
A person reads the channel and writes the audit by hand: a considered read typically takes three working days. That is the usual shape, not a promised turnaround. We use these details only to reply to you: no lists, no lurking.
What you will get
A fit snapshot: where your channel stands, and whether we are a match.
Two to three opportunities: specific, prioritised, yours to keep.
A recommended next step, even if that step is not us.
The audit is free and commits you to nothing: nobody follows up with a call you did not ask for.
The casework shows all of this done.
The case studies are the same work with the numbers, the sources and the dates attached.
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