Do you have an e-commerce store, or are you just starting one?
Or maybe you are you wondering how to set yourself up for more sales, while also keeping your overhead low.
We've put together a physically safe, low cost drop-off product photography service, by paring down our product photography to the bare minimum, while still offering something professional. Designed as a starter for people just opening their e-commerce businesses, what you get is:
- Professional lighting
- Professional setup
- Basic retouching
- Basic item preparation
- Colour accuracy
Does that sound a little better than your item photographed on your kitchen counter with a bedside lamp? The question is, how do we make that inexpensive. We have pared down our regular service, to lower our overhead, so that we can pass that savings on to you, and it includes:
- Studio standard lighting
- Studio choice setup – table top, light tent, or flatlay
- White backdrop
- One item at a time
- Table top, flatlay, or light tent setups
- No models for safety reasons
- A blower or lint roller only will be used for item prep – no polishing, ironing, steaming, or other intensive preparations
- Minor post-production – only very minor adjustments: colour, contrast, and brightness, and putting on a pure white background
- One Price Fits All – you don’t even have to think about any options, so less time wondering about things.
Compare that with our regular product photography approach. For our custom service, in the back of our minds we’re always imagining 10,000 sets of eyeballs look at these photos on your e-commerce site, picking up on the least flaw or incongruity, so we go the extra mile to make things look perfect. When you’re just starting out, you don’t have 10,000 sets of eyeballs picking apart the flaws – so we basically took something like 50% of that work out (the parts not directly related to clicking the shutter button), to offer something more affordable. Our regular approach is based on making sure that your product photos truly reflect your brand, professionalism, and can stand up to intense scrutiny. That looks like this:
- In Person: a consultation to understand your needs, the lighting you like, the different items you need shot;
- On Set: A long time is spent making it look as perfect as possible in camera: ironing, steaming, polishing, taping, clipping, adjusting the lighting, and other fussing and farting, so we can reduce the amount of work in photoshop; and
- In Photoshop: Even with all the work on set, there are always things to fix – dust, fluff, flaws, misalignments, small lighting adjustments, colour correction.
Of course, we expect that you still want your items to look awesome, and that means that some item preparation is needed. Right now, what people have is time, not money, so by providing guidance on how to do that yourselves, we can enable you to better use the resources that you have on hand.
Contact us if you are interested in this service! You can also learn more about how we do product photography, at this link.
1 Comments
Oct 9, 2020, 2:58:08 PM
Alina Muresan - Hi Jean-Marc, I just spoke to Gillian about the Drop-off service. Can you please tell me more about it? I have a few new food items I need photos of (in a container, in a bowl/plate). Thank you, Alina (Orgali Foods)