Detail of a sports car interior, steering wheel and instrument panel, photographed by Matthew Gillooley
Silicon Valley Product Photography

Product Photography

Commercial product imagery for tech companies, outdoor gear, and consumer brands.

Product photography that shows how things work, not just how they look. I understand the difference between a marketing shot and a product shot, and when you need both.

Controlled hero images in a rented studio when the work calls for it. On-location work when the product belongs in context. The flexibility to deliver e-commerce white background and campaign imagery from the same production day.

Hero Product

Campaign-level product photography with controlled lighting, considered arrangement, and post-production finishing. Flagship images for launches and advertising.

E-Commerce & Catalog

Consistent product photography for online retail. White background, in context, or both. One capture and grading standard held across a set, so frames made on different days match.

Product-in-Use

Lifestyle product photography showing real-world application. Tech on desks, gear in the field, products in hands. The product photographed in use, in the setting it belongs in.

Packaging & Detail

Available for unboxing sequences, texture details, and packaging. Secondary imagery for product pages and campaign support.

The Approach

My product photography background is not conventional. Seven years on imaging and camera-quality programs at Amazon, Meta, and Apple gave me an understanding of how cameras render surfaces, how lighting interacts with materials, and what makes an image technically excellent rather than merely adequate. At Amazon, I defined image-quality standards and production workflows for a 3D product-imaging pipeline that processed more than 750 million photographs, and built an objective image-quality test lab for automated capture. That background is unusual for a commercial photographer. I learned lighting by measuring it, not only by practicing it.

The practical result is product photography with a level of precision that shows up in the details. Clean specular highlights that reveal surface texture without blowing out. Controlled reflections on glass, metal, and plastic that describe the object's form accurately. Consistent color reproduction across an entire product line so a white from one SKU matches the white from another. These are subtle differences, and they are what I check before a frame is delivered.

Dual Capability

Rented-studio precision for controlled hero images and e-commerce white background. Field experience for lifestyle product photography showing real-world use. Combining both in a single production day means clean catalog assets and lifestyle frames come out of the same shoot, graded to one standard. Each setup is framed for horizontal, vertical, and square placement, so one setup can run in all three without a reshoot.

Available for technology products, outdoor gear, consumer electronics, and packaging. The shot list is agreed before a date is held, and the day is built around that list so each setup gets the time it needs.

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