On a marketplace the photograph does most of the selling before anybody reads a word. We shoot clean white-background images, lifestyle frames and detail shots, sized and prepared for the exact platforms you sell on. Drop the products off in Cambridge or ship them, and get back images that are ready to upload.
A shopper scrolling a results page sees a thumbnail and a price. They have not read your title, let alone your description. The image either earns the click or it does not.
Amazon wants a pure white background, the product filling most of the frame and nothing else in it. Etsy and Shopify reward consistency across a catalog. A set shot to those rules looks professional everywhere else by default.
The lighting changes between products, the backgrounds do not match, and a catalog that looks assembled piece by piece reads as a hobby rather than a business. That shows up in conversion rate long before anyone tells you about it.
A square thumbnail, a tall lifestyle frame for social, a detail crop for the listing body, and a wide banner. Shooting for all of them at once costs barely more than shooting for one, and reshooting later costs everything again.
Quoted per product, with the price agreed before anything is shot. Larger catalogs get a per-unit rate.
The marketplace standard. Even lighting, true color, product filling the frame, cut out cleanly so it drops onto any page without a visible box around it.
The product in use, in a setting that tells somebody what it is for. These are the images that work on social and in ads, where a white cut-out looks like a catalog page.
Texture, finish, stitching, hardware, size reference, and every color or size variant shot consistently so the listing gallery holds together.
Amazon main images, Etsy galleries, Shopify product pages, and crops ready for Facebook and Instagram. Delivered in the dimensions each one actually wants.
Same lighting, same background, same editing from the first product to the hundredth, so adding a product later does not break the set.
A few seconds of the product turning or being used, cut for a product page or an ad. Covered on the photo and video page.
If what you need photographed is a job site, a crew or finished work rather than a product, the photo and video page is the right one. For how photography fits into a monthly plan, see the pricing page.
Most catalogs turn around inside a week of the products arriving. Larger sets get a schedule agreed up front.
Drop them off in Cambridge or ship them. Tell us which platforms you sell on and what the listing needs, and we will tell you how many shots each product should get.
Start a product shootWhite background, lifestyle and detail frames, color corrected and cut out. You see proofs before the full set is finished.
Start a product shootSized and named for each platform, delivered as a download. Products go back to you or get shipped on.
Start a product shootWebsites are quoted per project. Ongoing marketing runs month to month. Ad spend is billed separately and goes straight to Google or Meta, so you always know what we are paid and what the platforms are paid.
One-time project. Most Minnesota small business sites land in here.
For a business with a decent site that needs the phone to ring.
Everything, including me on site with a camera twice a month.
Month to month, no contracts. For SEO we recommend giving it at least six months, because that is how long it takes to be worth judging. If you would rather commit to twelve months, two on-site photo and video shoots are included at no charge.
The images are the deliverable, but they only earn their money once they are in front of people. These are the pieces they plug into.
Crew, workspace, process and finished work, shot on location. Most clients who book a product shoot end up wanting this too.
See the photo and video page Where they landProduct pages, galleries and a fast custom WordPress build that does not flatten your images on the way to the browser.
See the website design page Where they sellLifestyle frames are what make a paid social ad work. Across the accounts we run, Meta leads have come in at about $28.97.
See the Meta ads page The look around themLogo, colors, type and the labels, inserts and print that go in the box with the product.
See the branding page Keeping them in rotationA catalog of clean product frames is the raw material a posting calendar runs on for months.
See the social media page Quoted per productA one-off catalog shoot is quoted on its own. The monthly plans are for businesses that want photography running alongside everything else.
See full pricingShooting something other than a product? The photo and video page covers job sites, crews and finished work.
Quoted per product once we know how many shots each one needs, with a per-unit rate for larger catalogs. You get the number before anything is shot. The pricing section above covers the monthly plans, which include photography for clients running one.
No. Products can be shipped from anywhere and shipped back. Minnesota sellers tend to drop off in Cambridge because it is easier.
Usually one white-background main image, two or three detail or angle shots and one lifestyle frame. More for anything with color or size variants. We will tell you what each platform expects before you commit.
Usually, but ask first. Size, weight and anything that cannot ship safely changes whether the shoot happens here or on location at your place.
You get the finished, edited, platform-sized files and you own them outright. Raw files stay with us, which is standard, and anything you need reworked later gets reworked.
Yes. Crew, workspace, process and finished work are all on the photo and video page, and both get shot in the same visit when it makes sense.
