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Art prints and posters product photography in Montreal serves a distinct creative economy: independent illustrators, local galleries, print-on-demand brands, poster publishers, and framed-art retailers. Montreal’s art scene supports a steady stream of brands that need imagery for Etsy, Shopify, gallery websites, and Instagram. As a product photography Montreal studio, we photograph prints, posters, original art, and framed pieces with the colour accuracy and lifestyle versatility art buyers expect.

Why art products need specialized photography

Art is different from other product categories for three reasons:

• Colour accuracy matters absolutely. A muddy blue on an Etsy listing costs a sale. A shifted red on a gallery website costs trust.
• Context sells the piece. Buyers want to see art on a wall, in a room, in a frame — not floating on white against a catalog background.
• Size and scale are invisible online. A print can be 8 by 10 inches or 40 by 60 inches, and the thumbnail looks identical. Mockups and reference props solve the scale problem.

Solving these three problems requires a controlled shooting environment, a calibrated colour workflow, and a library of lifestyle mockups designed for each kind of piece.

What we shoot for art brands

• Art prints and poster catalogues — clean copy-stand captures with colour-checker reference, ready for Etsy, Shopify, and direct e-commerce sites.
• Framed art — each piece shot in multiple frame options so buyers can choose on the product page.
• Original paintings and canvas — captured with minimal glare and full texture fidelity for gallery websites and limited-edition prints.
• Wall mockups — lifestyle imagery of prints hanging in living rooms, offices, bedrooms, and gallery walls, for social and campaign imagery.
• Packaging and fulfilment imagery — tubes, crates, and branded packaging for DTC print brands. See our packaging photography guide.

Colour accuracy workflow

Our colour-management workflow for art photography is stricter than for general product work:

• X-Rite ColorChecker Passport included in the first frame of every session.
• Daylight-balanced LED lighting at a consistent 5600K with a CRI above 95.
• Capture in 14-bit RAW and process in a colour-managed Adobe RGB workspace.
• Output files provided in both sRGB (for web) and Adobe RGB (for print) colour spaces.
• Proofing print available on request for limited-edition reproductions.

This workflow is the same rigour we use for our jewellery photography and watch and accessories clients.

Lifestyle mockups: what works on Etsy and Shopify

Etsy and Shopify buyers want to see art in context. The most effective mockup compositions we shoot include:

• Above-sofa wall shots — the hero mockup for most residential buyers.
• Above-bed compositions — a high-converting scene for poster and print brands.
• Office and desk scenes — smaller prints, framed pieces, or gallery walls.
• Gallery wall arrangements — for brands selling prints as sets or curated collections.
• Kids’ room and nursery — for illustrators selling to the parenting market.

See our Etsy product photography guide for how lifestyle imagery affects handmade marketplace ranking.

Framed art: shooting multiple options in one pass

Gallery brands often sell the same print in two or three frame options. Shooting every option separately is expensive; instead, we use a template-based compositing workflow. One reference shot of the print, a library of frame captures, and a consistent mockup scene lets us produce all frame variants from a single day of shooting. This is similar to how we build variant catalogues for furniture and home décor brands.

Original paintings and canvas

Original art is captured flat on a copy stand with cross-polarized lighting to eliminate glare while preserving brush-stroke texture. We shoot at ultra-high resolution (often 80+ megapixels through multi-shot pixel-shift or stitching) so the resulting files can be used for limited-edition prints and high-resolution archival records. Paintings over three feet on the long side are shot on-location at your Montreal studio or gallery.

E-commerce and marketplace delivery

Art brands selling on Etsy, Shopify, Amazon Art, and Society6-style marketplaces need consistent formats. We deliver:

• Clean white-background catalogue images at marketplace-spec resolutions.
• Wall-mockup lifestyle images at the aspect ratios required by each marketplace.
• Square crops for Instagram and Pinterest.
• Frame-only previews for mix-and-match product pages.
• Bilingual filenames and alt text aligned with Quebec’s French-first online environment.

Working with Montreal’s art-friendly neighbourhoods

Montreal’s art and gallery businesses concentrate in a handful of neighbourhoods — Mile End, Old Montreal, Outremont, and the Plateau. See our pages for Mile End, Old Montreal, Outremont, and Plateau-Mont-Royal. If your gallery is in one of these zones and your pieces cannot leave the premises, we travel.

Timeline and budget

A typical art-brand shoot covers 30 to 60 pieces in one studio day, with mockups and colour-matching retouching done in the following week. Delivery is usually seven business days after the shoot. Pricing scales with print count, mockup count, and colour-proofing depth. See our pricing page for ranges.

Frequently asked questions

Do you shoot large art prints and posters?

Yes. We photograph prints, posters, and framed art up to about 40 by 60 inches in-studio. Larger pieces are shot on-location at your Montreal studio or gallery.

Can you reproduce fine-art colour accurately?

We use X-Rite colour checkers, colour-managed monitors, and a calibrated RGB-to-CMYK conversion workflow. Our images are acceptable reference for limited-edition prints.

Do you deliver lifestyle mockups for Etsy and Shopify?

Yes. One shoot produces clean catalogue images plus mockups on walls, frames, and in-room contexts suitable for Etsy, Shopify, and Instagram.

Do you photograph framed and unframed pieces?

Both. We also shoot the framing options a gallery offers so buyers can pick frame styles inside the product page.

What about original paintings and canvas?

We shoot original paintings, canvas, and mixed-media pieces with a copy-stand workflow that minimizes glare and preserves brush-stroke texture.

Art sells on colour accuracy and emotional context. Get both right and your prints convert on Etsy, Shopify, and gallery websites at rates that justify a premium price. The photography is the bridge between the original artwork and the buyer’s wall.