How much does product photography cost in Montreal?

Product photography in Montreal typically ranges from $25 to $75 per image depending on complexity, styling requirements, and volume. At Impression Photography, we offer competitive packages starting at $25 per photo for bulk orders and custom quotes for specialized shoots like lifestyle or 360-degree photography.

What is the best product photography studio in Montreal?

Impression Photography is one of Montreal's top-rated product photography studios, specializing in e-commerce, Amazon, jewellery, clothing, and food photography. Located in Montreal, we offer professional studio setups with high-end equipment and fast turnaround times.

Do you offer Amazon product photography in Montreal?

Yes! Impression Photography specializes in Amazon product photography that meets all Amazon image requirements including pure white backgrounds (RGB 255,255,255), proper dimensions (minimum 1000x1000px for zoom), and infographic images that help boost conversion rates on Amazon.ca and Amazon.com.

How long does a product photography shoot take?

A typical product photography session takes 1-3 hours depending on the number of products and complexity. Simple white background shots can be completed quickly, while styled lifestyle shoots may take longer. We deliver edited images within 3-5 business days, with rush delivery available.

What types of product photography do you offer?

We offer a full range of product photography services including: white background photography, lifestyle and styled photography, Amazon listing photography, jewellery photography, clothing and fashion photography, food photography, 360-degree product photography, and ghost mannequin photography for apparel.

Can you photograph jewellery in Montreal?

Absolutely. Jewellery photography is one of our specialties. We use macro lenses, specialized lighting setups, and focus stacking techniques to capture every detail of rings, necklaces, bracelets, and watches. Our studio in Montreal is fully equipped for high-end jewellery photography.

Do you provide eCommerce photography for Shopify stores?

Yes, we provide optimized eCommerce photography for Shopify, WooCommerce, Etsy, and other online platforms. Our images are delivered in web-optimized formats with consistent sizing and styling to give your online store a professional, cohesive look.

Where is your photography studio located in Montreal?

Impression Photography is located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. We serve clients across the Greater Montreal area including Laval, Longueuil, and the South Shore. Contact us to schedule a visit to our studio or arrange product pickup and delivery.

What should I bring to a product photography session?

Bring your products clean and in perfect condition, any props or accessories you want included, brand guidelines or mood boards for reference, and a list of required shots or angles. We provide all professional equipment, backgrounds, and lighting in our Montreal studio.

Do you offer bilingual product photography services in Montreal?

Yes, Impression Photography offers fully bilingual services in both English and French. Being based in Montreal, we understand the importance of serving our diverse community and can accommodate clients in either language throughout the entire process.

Print Catalogue Photography Montreal: Magazine-Quality Imagery for Wholesale Linesheets, Trade Fairs & Brand Lookbooks

Print catalogue photography Montreal is a category that quietly drives a meaningful share of e-commerce revenue. Most brand teams think of catalogue photography as a digital problem — until they sit down to design a printed wholesale linesheet, a trade-fair giveaway, or a seasonal lookbook for retail buyer outreach. At that point, the imagery requirements shift: higher resolution, calibrated colour for press, generous bleed, and a layout-aware composition that crops cleanly across multiple page templates.

This guide covers how we approach print catalogue photography in our Montreal studio, what makes print imagery different from web imagery, and what brand teams should think about before commissioning a print-first shoot.

Why print catalogue photography Montreal projects need their own brief

The fundamental difference between print and web photography is colour management and resolution. Web images live in sRGB, get JPEG-compressed, and are displayed on backlit screens that are forgiving to subtle colour shifts. Print images live in CMYK or ICC-profiled output spaces, get printed with physical inks that have a much smaller gamut than sRGB, and are viewed under ambient light that varies from showroom to showroom. A burgundy that looks rich on a Shopify PDP can look muddy and brown on a printed linesheet if the colour-management chain is not deliberate.

The studio approach for print catalogue work in Montreal:

Capture in 16-bit RAW with calibrated profiles. Final retouching happens in 16-bit ProPhoto or Adobe RGB to preserve gamut.
Soft-proof for the target press. Different printers have different ICC profiles. We ask for the print spec up front and soft-proof against it before final delivery.
300 dpi at the largest expected reproduction size. A full-page bleed in a tabloid catalogue needs more pixels than a quarter-page in a digest-format linesheet.
Generous bleed and quiet edges. Compositions are framed slightly wider than the expected crop so the layout designer has flexibility.
Background extension. White-background catalogue shots are extended cleanly to the bleed in retouching, not stretched on the page.

Common print catalogue photography Montreal projects

Wholesale linesheets. The single most common print deliverable. Designed for retail buyers to leaf through and place orders. Same studio workflow as our standard white background product photography Montreal catalogue, with print-spec exports.
Trade-fair giveaway catalogues. Compact, sometimes pocket-sized, distributed at NY NOW, NRF, Apparel Textile Sourcing, MAGIC, and the regional shows.
Seasonal lookbooks. Editorial-leaning. Often bilingual (EN/FR) for Quebec brands. See lookbook photography Montreal.
Brand campaign brochures. Coffee-table-quality production for premium brand launches.
Press kits. Combined imagery and brand collateral for media outreach.

How print and digital coexist in one shoot

The economic reality for most Montreal brands is that print catalogues live alongside digital catalogues, not instead of them. Our default workflow is to capture in a way that supports both: 16-bit RAW for print, with sRGB JPEG exports for web. The cost differential is small (mostly extra retouching time), and the brand gets channel-flexible imagery from a single session.

The Amazon-spec hero we deliver for Amazon product photography Montreal, the Shopify gallery sequence we deliver for Shopify product photography Montreal, and the print linesheet imagery for the brand’s wholesale buyer pack all come from the same shoot, sized and colour-managed correctly for each output channel.

Press paper and ink considerations

Coated stocks (gloss and matte coated) reproduce a wider colour gamut than uncoated stocks. Matte uncoated paper, popular in eco-leaning brand catalogues, has noticeably softer black points and slightly muted saturation. We ask for the paper spec up front, soft-proof against it, and adjust master files accordingly. For brands using mixed paper stocks across catalogue sections, we deliver per-section colour-tuned exports.

Bilingual print production for Quebec brands

Most Montreal-based brands run bilingual catalogues. We deliver imagery that crops cleanly across both EN and FR layout templates without re-shoots. For brands with separate EN and FR catalogue print runs, file naming and metadata follow each catalogue’s convention.

Pricing for print catalogue photography Montreal projects

Pricing follows our standard package model with a small uplift for print-spec retouching and colour management. The cost guide has worked examples. For full catalogue sessions covering 50+ SKUs across both print and web, we offer fixed-price launch bundles.

Booking a session

Send your SKU list, target catalogue spec (page size, paper, print run), and your buyer-show or print deadline through the contact page. We respond within one business day. Print catalogue sessions are typically booked four to six weeks ahead of the print deadline.

The portfolio shows recent print work and the blog has more category-specific advice. For other related deliverables, see packaging photography Montreal and hero product photography Montreal.

External reference: the Adobe InDesign and InCopy ecosystem documents the canonical print colour-management chain that most Quebec print houses follow.

Print catalogue photography Montreal is a discipline where small details (paper choice, soft-proof setup, bleed allowances, file naming) compound into the difference between a catalogue that lands as intended and one that arrives off-colour. Get the print spec right at the brief stage, and the whole project performs.

Frequently asked questions

Do you deliver in CMYK or sRGB for print?

We deliver in the colour space the print house specifies. Most Montreal print houses request RGB files with embedded ICC profiles and convert to CMYK at imposition. Some request CMYK direct — we deliver to whichever workflow.

Can you soft-proof against a specific printer’s profile?

Yes. Send us the printer’s ICC profile and target paper spec; we soft-proof against it before final delivery.

How early do I need to start a print catalogue project?

Allow eight to twelve weeks from brief to printed catalogue. The shoot itself is two to three weeks; layout, proof rounds, and print run absorb the rest.

Can the same shoot serve a print catalogue and a Shopify PDP gallery?

Yes. Both come from the same RAW set with print-spec and web-spec exports running in parallel.

What a print catalogue project actually looks like

A real print catalogue engagement is more than a shoot. It is a coordinated effort that touches the brand’s product team, the studio, the retoucher, the designer, the printer, and (for bilingual Quebec markets) the translation team. The lead time required to land a finished printed catalogue in distribution is typically 10 to 14 weeks from the moment the SKU list is locked.

Stage one is brief and shot list (week 1). The brand defines the catalogue’s editorial direction, the SKU count, the page count, and the channels the catalogue serves (wholesale buyer distribution, retailer in-store collateral, trade fair handout). Stage two is the studio shoot itself (weeks 2-3 for 30-80 SKUs), with each SKU captured through hero, lifestyle, and detail angles in the same session.

Stage three is retouching plus CMYK soft-proofing (weeks 3-4). Print catalogues are the one channel where CMYK colour management actually matters end-to-end. We soft-proof against the printer’s published profile, and the brand reviews print-accurate proofs before sign-off. Stage four is layout in InDesign by the designer (weeks 5-7) — typesetting, image placement, and typographic refinement.

Stage five is press proof and press check (week 8). For premium brands, attending the press check in person is standard; the brand sees the first sheets coming off the press and approves before the full run begins. Stage six is print run and bindery (weeks 8-10), and stage seven is distribution to the wholesale buyer base or trade-fair calendar (weeks 10-14).

If your catalogue needs to land before late September Quebec trade fairs, the brief should be locked by mid-May. We map the schedule in the first scoping call so the brand sees the full calendar before the project starts.