Here are a few questions that you need to ask yourself. These will help you through the process of having products photographed.
What will be the use of these 360 spins? Online Store, Product Display, Presentations, Video, Retail Sites
What will be the final deliverable size of the artwork? 400×400, 600×600, 800×800, 1500×1500
Do you need a static web resolution or Print resolution shot of the product? If so what size?
Do you want to show the product or do you want to inform the user about the product?
How many products are you going to have photographed?
How long will you be using the images?
What timeframe do you have to complete the project?
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Defining the type of photography needed and the amount of post-processing, helps PhotoSpherix offer a package that fits your needs. It does not help you to have a $450 360 view when all you need is a $100 product rotation. The correct functionality allows PhotoSpherix to achieve the desired effect. With the PhotoSpherix Good, Better, Best classes of photography, we are helping you compare our services to other providers. Find out more about your product 360 options. If you have an RFP or RFQ that you would like PhotoSpherix to participate in, please click here and fill out the online form.
Shipping
To reduce the costs of the overall project, we recommend that you have your shipping department manage the delivery process to our office. We also ask that you include a return shipping label for the product. If you would like us to just donate the product once photography is completed, let us know and we can do this as well. PhotoSpherix can handle this step in the process if need be.
Cataloging
Once the product is received by PhotoSpherix, it is cataloged and inputed into our system. This helps in reducing loss and generates a tracking number for each specific product within a project. This product number is used by the staff at PhotoSpherix to track the current status of the product as well as it gives you the customer a reference number that makes the review process simpler and faster.
Product Preparation before Photographing
At this point the product is prepped for photography, depending on what package you the customer have chosen, this may be as simple as unpacking the product. For those products that need a little extra care, this step in the process will be included, steaming, ironing, fluffing, setting, staging, and/or rigging. All of these stages in the process help to create the best possible images for your 3D product pack shot.
PHOTOGRAPHY!!!
Now the product is ready to be photographed. The product is loaded onto the proprietary rotating product system at the PhotoSpherix Studio. If the product requires a single row product shot, then the optimal angle of product rotation is determined so that the maximum product exposure can be shown in one rotation. If you the customer have a requested angle that you would prefer the product/s be photographed, that angle must be requested before photography begins. If the product is of the multi-row variety, then the product is placed on the apparatus and all angles needed to be photographed are generated.
Post Production and Review
Once the photography stage is completed, the first round of postproduction is completed on the product. A sampling of the product is made available for you the client to review. If you have chosen the “Better” or “Best” classes, the staff at PhotoSpherix will continue to refine the product photography after the first review. If you have chosen the “Good” class, then the final 360-product model will be made available for download.
Final Product Production
After all post production is completed, we generate the final files for your project. This can include the HTML5 player, sequential images, animated GIFs and MP4 video files. We are also able to export out the sequential images in naming formats for many of the online retailers where you already sell your product.
Repackaging and shipping
The final step in the process is to repack the product. Now we make it ready for your internal shipping department to generate shipping tags for your choice of carrier to receive the product and ship it back to you the customer.
