Product Photography Services Shot for the Website They'll Live On

Products, food, premises and people photographed by the same team that designs your website, so every image fits its layout, loads fast and does a job.

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At a glance

  • 5.0 from 50 Google reviews
  • Based in Long Eaton, we come to you
  • Portable studio tent, or send products to us
  • Files edited and optimised for web

Vimana Digital's product photography services cover packshots, food, clothing, premises and people, shot on location or in our studio set-up and edited for use on websites, online shops and social media. Most shoots are booked alongside a website build, but standalone shoots are welcome. Pricing is per shoot or per image.

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What we photograph

Photography sits inside our web design services because new websites so often need new imagery: in one year of builds, around 80% of our projects needed fresh copy or photography, and waiting for it slows a launch down.

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  • Products and packshotsIndividual items on plain or coloured backgrounds, shot consistently so a category page looks like one range. Alloy wheels for Diamond Alloys; 20kg feed bags for Gablestock Animal Feeds.
  • Food and drinkHot and cold dishes for menus, delivery apps and websites. A selection of dishes for Spice Cube is used across the site, gallery and social media.
  • ClothingSent to us in a box or shot at your premises, flat or modelled if required.
  • Premises, interiors and exteriorsThe dining room, the workshop, the clinic, the showroom. Interior and exterior shots for The Coopers Arms.
  • People and personal brandsFounders, teams, consultants. Andrew Parker Art was photographed across several city-centre locations; a constituency tour produced the imagery for Andrew Bridgen MP.
  • Trades at workSite photography for businesses whose work is the product, such as Angus Tree Care.
  • Door and window ranges, finishes and hardwareOur own product shots mixed with manufacturer images for Doors Doors Doors.

What "shot for the website" actually means

A standalone photographer hands you a folder of large JPEGs. We hand you images that are already doing their job on the page. The difference shows up in four places:

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  • Composition for the layoutA hero banner needs space for a headline; a product card needs a square crop; a team page needs matching head heights. We know the layouts because we're building them.
  • Consistency across the rangeFor Doors Doors Doors every image was colour-matched, cropped to the same ratios and lit to feel like one catalogue, even where manufacturer stock images sat beside our own.
  • SpeedImages are the heaviest thing on most pages and usually the "largest contentful paint" element Google measures. We export in WebP, at sensible file weights, with lazy loading, so the photography never costs you a Core Web Vitals pass.
  • Search and accessibilityFile names and alt text are aligned to the site's keyword structure. WebAIM's 2025 scan found 55.5% of the top million home pages have missing image descriptions; every image we deliver has alt text written for it.

Building a site and need the photos too? Call 0115 647 0444 or start a project; photography appears as a visible line on the quote.

How a product shoot works

  1. 1Shopping listYou tell us which products, dishes, rooms or people you need and where the images will be used. We plan the shot list around the pages.
  2. 2We come to you, or you send to usOn location we need roughly a two-by-two-metre space and a power socket, and we're set up in about 20 minutes. Smaller products can be sent to us in a secure box and returned after the shoot.
  3. 3Minimal disruptionYou have a business to run. At Gablestock we picked each feed bag from the warehouse, wiped it down, shot it and put it back ourselves; the owner's only job was the shopping list. Read the behind-the-scenes account.
  4. 4Edit and optimiseBackgrounds cleaned, colours matched, crops set for each layout, exports in web and print sizes.
  5. 5DeliveryImages go straight into the website build and are supplied to you as files for social media, print or marketplaces.

Why photography matters more than most small businesses budget for

  1. 83%

    83% of shoppers say product images are "very" or "extremely" influential

    On a purchase decision, against 36% for video, in a survey of US smartphone users (Field Agent via eMarketer, March 2018). Self-reported and US-based, but the gap between photos and everything else is large.

  2. 60%

    Most shoppers want three or four images per product

    60% of digital shoppers said they needed to see an average of three to four images before buying, and 13% wanted five or more (Salsify, February 2018). One photo per product is not a catalogue.

  3. 8.4%

    Speed is revenue

    A 0.1-second improvement in mobile site speed lifted retail conversions by 8.4% (Deloitte Digital for Google, 2020). Unoptimised photography is one of the most common reasons a small-business site is slow.

  4. Mobile is what Google reads

    Google indexes the mobile version of your site (mobile-first indexing completed 31 October 2023), so a 5MB hero image that looks fine on an office monitor is being judged on a phone over 4G.

  5. 27%

    Online is a quarter of UK retail

    Around 25–27% of Great Britain's retail sales are now online (ONS via ICAEW, November 2025). Customers who can't handle the product are relying on the photograph.

  6. Stock imagery undermines personal brands

    For Andrew Parker Art, stock photos would have contradicted a website built around one person; original photography across several locations gave the site its identity.

How much does product photography cost in the UK?

  • White-background packshots at volume

    Quoted on request

    • Typical UK market rate (2026): £10–£25 per image on published UK price lists; extremes from £5 to £35 (Whito, August 2026)

  • Styled or lifestyle product shots

    Quoted on request

    • Typical UK market rate (2026): Considerably higher per image; props, styling and usage rights add cost

  • Half-day or day on location

    Quoted on request

    • Typical UK market rate (2026): £50–£300 a day budget/freelance; £600–£900 a day experienced commercial (Stuart Price)

  • Photography bundled with a website build

    Quoted as a line item on the website quote

What's included in every Vimana shoot.

  • Shot list planning around the pages the images are for

  • Travel to you, with no travel charge

  • Editing, colour matching and cropping for each layout

  • Web-optimised exports plus full-size files for print and social

  • Usage rights: you own the images for your own business use

Websites we photographed as well as built

What clients say

  • "Had Amit recommended to me for some product photography and the results were better than I had imagined. Professional service from top to bottom and would not hesitate to recommend Vimana Digital. Will certainly be back in the future for a website."
    Matt Nooch
  • "From when we contacted them, Amit responded almost instantly, he then came to our clinic and took our requirements and the site was built within the time quoted."
    Louth vision centre
  • "I couldn’t be happier with the experience of working with the team at Vimana Digital to create my website… The whole process was quick, professional and incredibly affordable."
    Andy Parker

5.0 from 50 Google reviews. Read them all on Google.

Put the images to work

We're based in Long Eaton and shoot across Nottingham, Derby, Leicester and the wider East Midlands, and travel further by arrangement.

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How much does product photography cost in the UK?

Published UK price lists put simple white-background product shots at roughly £10–£25 per image at volume, with styled lifestyle shots and location days costing more. Vimana Digital quotes per shoot or per image depending on volume, and lists photography as a line item when it's part of a website build.

Do you travel to us for the shoot?

Yes. Most shoots happen at your premises because that's where the products, dishes or people are. We need a space of around two by two metres and a power socket, and we're set up in about 20 minutes. Smaller products can also be sent to us and returned after the shoot .

What's the difference between this page and your product photography blog post?

This page describes the service: what we shoot, how a shoot runs and what it costs. The blog post is a behind-the-scenes account of one shoot at Gablestock Animal Feeds, showing the set-up, the process and the finished images. Read it if you want to see what a shoot day looks like.

Can you photograph food for Just Eat, Uber Eats and Deliveroo?

Yes. Hot and cold dishes are shot in a controlled set-up with a choice of backgrounds, then cropped to the sizes each platform and your website need. For Spice Cube the same shoot supplied the website, the gallery and social media, so one session covers several uses.

Do I own the photographs?

You can use the images for your own business without further fees: website, social media, print and marketplaces . Files are supplied in web-optimised and full-size versions. If you want exclusive rights or usage by third parties such as distributors, say so and we'll write it into the quote.

How many images do I need per product?

Three or four is a sensible minimum for ecommerce. Salsify found 60% of shoppers want to see an average of three to four images before buying, and 13% want five or more. A front view, a detail, a scale or in-use shot, and a variant image cover most products.

Will the photos slow my website down?

Not if they're prepared properly. Images are the heaviest element on most pages, so we export in WebP at sensible file weights with lazy loading, and re-test Core Web Vitals after they're added. Unoptimised photography is one of the most common reasons a small-business website fails Google's speed measures.

Can you also write the product descriptions?

Yes. Copywriting is part of the same service family, so we can write product and category copy to sit beside the images. For The Mani Club we wrote every word of the ecommerce site; for most website builds, copy and photography are quoted together as optional line items.

How much notice do you need?

Usually at least three days , though that isn't set in stone, so ask if your launch date is tighter. If the photography is part of a website build, we schedule the shoot during the content-gathering week so the images are ready before the design stage starts.

Book a shoot

Tell us what needs photographing and where the images will be used, and we'll reply within 24 hours, then send a quote and available dates.

"Had Amit recommended to me for some product photography and the results were better than I had imagined." — Matt Nooch
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