One day
Catalog shoot
Every product on a clean background, plus details, delivered store-ready.
Freelancer category
Product photography that makes the product the hero.
Photographers and models for cosmetics, fashion, and consumer brands. Clean product shots, lifestyle sets, and campaign imagery.
- Shoots
- Studio, lifestyle, model, campaign
- Shortlist
- Usually within 48 hours
- Fee
- Once, only if you hire
Example shortlist3 people
Product and model shoot, cosmetics line
€2,500–4,000 · one shoot day · Istanbul or Berlin
GT
Product photographer
10 yrs · Istanbul · €900/day · free in March
StudioCosmeticsRetouching
Why: Clean, consistent product shots for two cosmetics brands; delivers store-ready files.
IM
Lifestyle photographer
7 yrs · Berlin · €1,100/day · free from the 8th
LifestyleOn locationCampaigns
Why: Campaign imagery that still looks like your brand a year later.
RA
Model and makeup artist
6 yrs · Istanbul · €500/day · available
BeautyMakeupOn camera
Why: Models and does her own makeup for cosmetics promotion, which saves a crew member.
Example of the format. Real shortlists include portfolio links and current availability.
The work
What they take off your plate
Studio product photography for stores and marketplaces
Lifestyle and model shoots for brand and campaigns
Content sets sized for store, social, and ads
A consistent visual style across the whole catalog
Vetting for this role
What we check before we shortlist a photographers and models.
General vetting isn't enough. These are the checks specific to this role, on top of the skill tests every applicant takes.
Images that sold products
Catalog and campaign work used by real stores, and how consistent it is across a whole range.
Delivery that fits a store
Sizes, backgrounds and naming ready for product pages and marketplaces, not just a gallery.
Reliable on the day
Punctual, prepared, and clear about usage rights before the shoot.
Typical engagements
The three briefs we see most.
1–2 days
Campaign shoot
Models, locations and a producer if needed, for a launch or a season.
Quarterly
Ongoing product photography
New arrivals shot every few weeks in the same style.
Typical ranges, not quotes. Your brief decides the scope and the timeline.
Photographers and models: questions
Before you hire.
Do I need to be in the same city?
For product shoots, no: you ship the products to the photographer. For model and lifestyle shoots, we shortlist people where the shoot happens.
Who handles models and makeup?
Either the photographer's network or a creative producer. Some models also do makeup, which keeps a small shoot simple.
What about usage rights for models?
Agree them before the shoot: where images run and for how long. We flag it in every shortlist.
Often hired together
Start a brief
Tell us what you need.
Send a short brief — role, budget, timeline. We'll come back with two or three people we'd hire ourselves, usually within 48 hours.
Request a shortlistA good brief for a photographers and models says
- What's being photographed, and how many items
- Style: clean catalog, lifestyle, campaign
- Where the shoot happens, or whether you can ship
- Budget: a range is fine
- When you need the images