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One good headshot is easy. Fifty headshots that look like one company is the actual brief. How team headshot sessions work, in studio or at your office, and how to plan one without losing a workday.
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A product video shows what a photograph cannot: how something moves, how it works, what it feels like in use. The four formats worth briefing, what each is for, and how to get stills and film from one production.
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One great product image is a craft problem. Eight hundred consistent images across two hundred SKUs is a logistics problem wearing a craft problem's clothes. A walkthrough of how catalogue volume gets done properly.
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Most of what decides whether a factory shoot goes well is settled in the weeks before the crew arrives. Here is the preparation list we send manufacturers commissioning photography or film for the first time.
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Factories are visually rich and photographically hostile: mixed lighting, machinery that cannot move, and production that cannot stop. Here is how a professional industrial shoot handles a live plant.
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Electronics punish casual photography: screens that moiré, glossy black housings that vanish, ports and textures that need macro detail. Here is how professional electronics photography handles each problem.
Read article → What actually happens between briefing a corporate video and receiving the final cut: the stages, realistic timelines, and the decisions that move the budget.
Read article → Glass jars, metallic foils, glossy pumps and shade-critical colour. Cosmetics combine nearly every difficult surface in product photography. Here is how a studio handles them, and what to look for when you hire one.
Read article → What actually happens between your products arriving at a studio in Pallikaranai and marketplace-ready images landing in your inbox. A walkthrough of the space, the process and the tools.
Read article → Portfolios all look good at first glance. Here is how to actually evaluate a product photographer: what to look for, what to ask, and the warning signs that predict a painful project.
Read article → Amazon rejects listings over image problems more often than sellers expect. Here are the image requirements that matter, the common rejection reasons, and how a marketplace shoot actually runs.
Read article → Product photography quotes in Chennai can vary widely for the same brief. Here is exactly what moves the number, how the volume bands actually work, and how to get our rate sheet before you talk to anyone.
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Announcing ColoursAlive 3D Product Image creation for Chennai brands and services, in collaboration with Nabina Ghosh Creative Services, Kolkata
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Business travellers to international destinations, can often reclaim part of the money that they spend in their international travel, destinations, if their companies have the presence of mind to recl…
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What happens when you have to combine high volume, with high quality, and short timelines? We have to scale up, create templates, and automate workflows. An intimate knowledge of photography tools, fr…
Read article → ColoursAlive is on the lookout for efficient video editors. Do you know anyone? Get the details here: 2023 Update: Over 10 years later, I'm updating this…
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