What We Shoot
C&I Studios is a product photography studio that has been photographing products for brands since 2006. We light, shoot, and retouch product images in our 30,000 sq ft Los Angeles studio and on location, from clean white background shots for your store to styled sets, lifestyle scenes, and beauty campaigns with talent. Recent product photography includes BeatBot pool robots, Hubble eyewear and contact lenses, the KISS family of beauty brands, Premiere Creative bedding, and L.A. Colors cosmetics.
Ecommerce Product Photos
Clean, evenly lit shots on white or a seamless color. Front, back, angles, packaging, and scale, retouched so every product in your catalog matches the next one.
Marketplace Listing Images
A main image that meets the marketplace rules, then the secondary images that do the selling. Detail close ups, the product in use, and the features a buyer checks before adding to cart.
Lifestyle Photography
The product in a real kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, or backyard with talent using it. These are the images that let a buyer picture it in their own life.
Flat Lays & Styled Sets
Props, surfaces, and color built around the product. Overhead flat lays and tabletop sets for social posts, ads, email headers, and the top of your product page.
Beauty & Model Photography
Cosmetics, hair care, skincare, and eyewear on real people. We cast talent from our own database and shoot on studio color cycs, so the product and the person both look right.
3D Product Renders
Photoreal renders for products that are still at the factory or hard to photograph. Built by our VFX and animation team and lit to match the photography from the same campaign.
From Shot List to Final Image
- 01 The BriefWe start with where the images will live. A marketplace listing, a product page, paid social, and a retail display each need different crops, backgrounds, and shot counts, so that gets settled first.
- 02 PrepShip the product to our Los Angeles studio or we come to you. We handle props, surfaces, sets, talent, and locations, then send the shot list for your sign off.
- 03 Shoot DayProducts that share a lighting setup get grouped, so one day can cover a whole line or every colorway of a single item. You can watch on set or review selects afterward.
- 04 Retouch & DeliveryClean up, color matching across the set, and compositing for hero images, then every image exported at the size each platform asks for. Files are archived in Qubee, the media platform C&I Studios developed, so you can pull them again later.
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Check Out More of Our Work
Consumer tech, beauty, and home goods make up most of our product work. Open any project for the full case study.
BeatBotRoughly sixty edited stills of three pool robots, shot topside and underwater in a single day alongside the launch films.
Premiere CreativeA full production day of bedding photography built to anchor an Amazon storefront.
Hubble ContactsProduct photography of lenses and eyewear plus lifestyle images of the people who wear them.
KISSPhotography and 3D renders across imPRESS, JOAH Beauty, Falscara, and KISS Colors and Care.
L.A. ColorsProduct and model photography for the launch of the Browie Wowie brow styling soap.
JustCBDClean product shots and styled sets for a full CBD catalog, made for ads and Instagram.Frequently Asked Questions
It depends on the number of products, the number of finished images, whether there is talent in frame, and where the images will run. We quote a flat project price after a discovery call, split into creative, production, and usage so you can see what you are paying for. Our guide to brand photography cost breaks down how those numbers work.
Yes, and it is the most efficient way to build out a catalog. We group products that share a lighting setup, so one day can cover a whole product line or every colorway of a single item.
No. Many clients ship the product, approve the shot list, and review selects after the shoot. You are always welcome on set in Los Angeles if you want to be there.
Yes. We deliver a main image that meets each marketplace’s requirements, plus the secondary detail, lifestyle, and scale images, all from the same shoot. Our guide to Shopify product photos covers what performs on a product page.
Yes. Retouching is done in house by the same team, from clean up and color matching across a set to compositing hero images. We agree on the number of finished images before the shoot so the post budget is clear from day one.
Yes, and it usually costs less than booking two productions. Stills and motion share the lighting, the set, and the talent. On the BeatBot launch we delivered three films and roughly sixty edited stills from a single day. See our product video production page for the video side.
Yes. Our crews shoot in factories, warehouses, retail stores, and homes across the US, and we travel for international work.
A product photography studio plans, lights, shoots, and retouches images that sell a physical product. C&I Studios handles it under one roof in Los Angeles, from the brief and shot list through styling, talent, photography, 3D renders, retouching, and delivery for ecommerce, marketplaces, and ads.