Product Photography Services

Product Photography

We love product photography! From simple to extraordinarily detailed displays, we are your perfect partner when it comes to your business. Our facility lets us manage all aspects of lighting and our specialty gear allows us to get the perfect shot quickly and efficiently. From a single item to thousands of SKUs, we’ve done it all. 

What makes us different?

We care about your product!  We light your product the way it NEEDS to be lit, not like every other product. We consider shadows and reflections and YOUR GOALS. With us you get:

  • Decades of expertise
  • An ideal studio: controllable light, gear, specialty stands, product tables, tilt-shift lenses, freeze action to 1/2,000,000th of a second, slow motion cameras and more!
  • In person (when available) or Zoom in. Our live remote capabilities is extraordinary as we can provide information and evaluation images to you in real time.
  • Fast turnaround – simple e-commerce generally in under 1 day
  • No hidden charges

E-Commerce and Print Ready

In the world of e-commerce, the photo is EVERYTHING. Investing even a small investment in photography can make a huge difference. We follow all e-commerce rules and deliver exactly what is needed. 

  • Clean lighting, sharp, high resolution
  • Efficient editing to your exact specifications
  • You decide… transparent, reflective surface, shadows
  • Flat, shifted, top-down 

Most on-white products are priced starting at $50/image with a 10 product minimum. Complex products, lighting and rigging may incur setup charges. Priced for typical size and complex images – edited and delivered. We provide discounts for multiple images, angles and day rates. Additional charge of $5.50/image for clipping and/or traditional editing. $125/hour for specialty editing.

Sky's the Limit

We can provide product image assemblies. Perhaps you are looking for a lifestyle image, model/talent, in use, animated gif, slow motion or extremely high speed image or more, we can give you the tools you need to get your job done. And as a video shop, we can provide video production to bring your product over the top!

Amazing Unique Presentations

Our job is to be creative as well as craftspeople. We love what we do and will be as creative as you let us! 

We love to find new and exciting ways to show off your images. Let’s chat about 

  • Rollover images
  • animated gifs
  • product rotations
  • assemblies
  • fly-overs 
  • product sizzles 
  • and more. 

We hold the patent on our precision product-rotation technology, can shoot still images up to 1/2,000,000th of a second and video up to 20,000 frames per second. We have virtually unmatched capabilities always available and we look forward to bringing our craft to you!

Licensing & Terms

In exchange for payment of your invoice you may use the “delivered images” for practically anything you want. We want to help you use the images for digital, social, print and more! We want you to use the images to help promote your business! 

 

Unless otherwise agreed as part of the shoot, we do not include product packaging, third-party rights or mass media as part of the standard license. This does not impact the typical shoot as social media, web, online promotion, mailers, prints and more is included. 

 

We do not include unfinished images as part of our delivery. We are happy to edit and perfect an image. 

Lastly, we live in a social world. We give you our heart and soul and you can trust that we will do everything we can to exceed your expectations. Should you decide to share, please tag IG @marknicholasphotos and @manhattanbeachstudios. We’d sure appreciate it!