Sneaker and streetwear resellers
Buyers want to see your pair. Not the catalogue pair.
Condition sets the price, so the photo has to be the pair in your hands — creasing, sole wear and all. Stage it on concrete or on clean white without leaving the flat.
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There are two ways to photograph a pair you are reselling, and both of them lose you money.
Use the brand's press render and the listing looks professional right up until a buyer notices the shoe is suspiciously perfect for something described as worn twice. That is a report, and on some platforms a suspension. Shoot your own pair on the hallway floor instead and you are honest, but the pair looks like it has already been rejected once.
The third option is the obvious one nobody has time for: photograph your actual pair, properly lit, against something that is not your skirting board.
Why your photos are costing you sales
Streetwear buyers zoom. They will look at the toe box for creasing, the midsole for yellowing and the heel for drag, and if your photo is too dark or too small to show any of it they assume the worst and offer accordingly.
The irony is that a well-lit photo of an honestly worn pair sells better than a badly lit photo of a clean one. Detail reads as confidence. A shadowy hallway shot reads as somebody hoping you will not ask.
The scenes that suit your work
A handful chosen for what you sell, out of the full library.
It has to still be your item
Nothing gets cleaned up. Creasing stays creased, yellowed midsoles stay yellow, and a scuff on the toe is still a scuff on the toe after the restage. The instruction sent with every image is explicit about it, because a photograph that flatters a pair beyond what the box contains is the fastest possible route to a refund and a negative rating.
What changes is the floor, the wall and the light. That is all you wanted changed anyway.
- Your actual pair, in its actual condition, on concrete or clean white
- Detail sharp enough that buyers stop asking for more photos
- Vertical crops for stories from the same shot, no reshoot
- No brand renders, so no reports and no suspensions
Three steps, about a minute
01
Upload your photos
Two or three angles on a phone is plenty. We cut the background automatically.
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Pick your scenes
Tick as many as you like from 56 staged settings, or describe your own.
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Get your shots
They arrive together in your gallery, ready to download for a listing or a post.
Questions people ask before they sign up
- Will it hide creasing or yellowing?
- No. Both survive deliberately. A listing photo that looks cleaner than the pair in the box is how you end up refunding it.
- Can I use this for deadstock as well as worn pairs?
- Yes, and deadstock benefits most from the clean white scene, which is what most marketplaces want for a main listing image.
- Does it work with the box and accessories in shot?
- Photograph them together and they are treated as one object. If you want the shoe alone, shoot the shoe alone.
- What about hype pairs where the colourway matters?
- Colour is one of the attributes explicitly preserved on every generation, for exactly this reason. A colourway that shifts is a dispute.
Written for your trade
Practical pieces about photographing what you sell, rather than general advice about cameras.
Shooting deadstock so it reads as deadstock
An unworn pair photographed casually looks like a stolen stock image. Proving authenticity through photographs is a different skill from proving condition.
4 minute read
Why brand renders get your listing reported
Using the official product image on a used pair feels harmless and looks professional. It is also the fastest route to a suspension.
4 minute read
Photographing creasing without killing the price
Toe box creasing is the first thing a buyer zooms into. Hiding it costs you a dispute; showing it badly costs you fifty euros. Here is the middle path.
5 minute read
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