A look at how a e-commerce stills project for motorcycle gear actually comes together, start to finish.
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The product
Every project starts with a reference: a manufacturer product shot, or a reference photo of the item itself. On a real project, that's a raw photo of this piece of gear — before anything is composited, retouched or styled.
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The service
A clean, consistent set of stills for a catalog or storefront — same background, same lighting, same crop, across every piece of gear.
Purpose
What you want this piece of gear to do — a listing, an ad, a hero image, a catalog entry.
Placement
Where it will actually be seen — a website, social feed, print, a storefront.
Fit
What best matches the piece of gear itself and the brand around it.
Before production starts, we agree on how it should look. On a real brief these come from a short conversation — here's the kind of choices that go into it.
The options below (backgrounds, tones and more) are illustrative examples, not a fixed menu — real projects aren't limited to these.
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Work begins
While I get to work on this one, you can already start thinking about the next piece of gear in your catalog — and what kind of presentation it needs.
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